The league featured 14 teams, each playing each other four times, for a total of 52 regular season games.
In the HockeyAllsvenskan finals (Swedish: HockeyAllsvenska finalen), the first and second place teams from the regular season met in a best-of-five series, where the winner advanced to the SHL qualifiers, and the losing team continued to a playoff to the SHL qualifiers.
In the HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs (Swedish: Slutspelsserien), teams 3–8 met in a single-round robin tournament.
Teams also started with bonus points based on their position in the regular season standings.
Mora then won their series, 4–2, to qualify for SHL play for the first time since the 2007–08 season.