Allsvenskan is ranked 23rd in the UEFA coefficients of leagues based on performances in European competitions over the last five years.

Unlike other European football leagues, the Allsvenskan did not experience an interruption in play during World War II due to Swedish neutrality.

The one-league twelve team Allsvenskan replaced the Svenska Serien, consisting of a southern and northern group that was held before.

In the early years, Norrland and Gotland teams were not allowed to play on higher levels in the league system, which was gradually changed to include the Norrland and Gotland teams on higher levels.

For the 1959 Allsvenskan, the season start was changed from autumn to spring to be played in one calendar year.

In the 1970s, Malmö FF, under the lead of Spanish Antonio Durán and later English Bob Houghton, won five Allsvenskan and managed to proceed to the 1979 European Cup Final, which they lost to Nottingham Forest.

In the late 1980s, Malmö FF were dominant, winning the league five times in a row, but only two Swedish championships.

During the course of a season (starting in late March and ending in early November) each club plays the others twice (home and away) for a total of 30 games.

A different trophy that was named after Clarence von Rosen, the first chairman of the Swedish Football Association, had previously been used between 1903 and 2000, but was replaced after journalists reported that von Rosen had personal connections to the later infamous Nazi leader Hermann Göring during the time he lived in Sweden (soon after World War One).

[1] The former President of the Swedish Football Association, Lars-Åke Lagrell stated that the reason for the change of trophy was not a personal attack against Von Rosen but rather that the Football Association did not want to be linked to Nazism and constantly engage in discussions regarding this every time the trophy was awarded.

[3] Through licence agreements with the media company TV4 Group matches are aired through C More Entertainment who broadcasts them on their C More Sport and C More Live channels, until 2019.

[4] On 24 March 2017, Discovery-owned channel Eurosport and OTT streaming service dPlay will be the new domestic broadcaster for both SEF competitions (Allsvenskan and Superettan) effectively from 2020 until 2025, as well as selected European countries (exc.

[6] Beginning in 2018, Allsvenskan matches were previously broadcast in the UK on Premier Sports and FreeSports.

[7] In October 2018, ESPN picked up the rights to broadcast one Allsvenskan match per week in the United States.

IFK Göteborg is currently the club with the longest running streak, starting their 48th season in 2024.

Historically the players and coaching staff from the four best teams in Allsvenskan are awarded medals at the end of each season.

In the past, AIK had the league's highest attendance for the season more often than any other club, followed by IFK Göteborg and Örgryte.

However, for the past two decades, Hammarby has dominated the attendance figures helped by a move to the larger Tele2 Arena from the much smaller Söderstadion.

Other teams that have for at least one season had the best attendance in the league include Helsingborg, Malmö FF, Djurgården, GAIS, Örebro SK and Öster.

[22][23] Apart from these, female FIFA referee Tess Olofsson also occasionally officiates games in Allsvenskan as the only woman to ever having done so.

Note: FIFA referees are in bold Malmö FF were runners up in the 1978–79 European Cup, after a 1–0 defeat against Nottingham Forest.