The 2016 Superettan, part of the 2016 Swedish football season, was the 17th season of Superettan, Sweden's second-tier football league in its current format.
The bottom two teams were directly relegated to Division 1, whilst the thirteenth and the fourteenth-placed teams had to play-off against the second-placed teams from Division 1 Södra and Division 1 Norra to decide who would play in the 2017 Superettan.
2015 champions Jönköpings Södra IF and runners-up Östersunds FK were promoted to the Allsvenskan at the end of the 2015 season.
Utsiktens BK and IF Brommapojkarna were relegated at the end of the 2015 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table.
The 13th-placed and 14th-placed teams in the Superettan met the two runners-up from 2016 Division 1 (Norra and Södra) in Two-legged ties on a home-and-away basis with the teams from the Superettan finishing at home.