In 1974–75 it was played as one Division 1 league with sixteen teams, leading up to the start in the 1975–76 season of the present SHL.

The winners of these groups played in two qualification leagues, a northern and a southern one, from which two teams each were promoted.

When the then-named Elitserien started in 1975–76 as the top level with ten teams, the new second highest-level league was called Division 1, in four groups.

In 1982–83, however, the name Allsvenskan came back, for a league starting after the Christmas and New Year's break of the season.

The teams 3–6 in the Allsvenskan continued with play-offs and possibly Kvalserien for the second open spot in the Elitserien.

In the 1999–2000 season, Allsvenskan Norra (north) and Södra (south) were inaugurated as a completely new second-level league, consisting of twelve teams each.

The winner of the HockeyAllsvenskan Final gets to challenge team 14 from the SHL in best of seven games for their spot in the league.

[6] Halmstad played in HockeyAllsvenskan this season, but due to the club's bankruptcy the team was disqualified.

Huddinge and Hammarby finished last in the league this year and had to play in the qualification series to stay up.

However, in the summer, Nyköping was relegated to Division 1, not meeting the financial demands for being approved to play in the HockeyAllsvenskan (known as the elite license), and Huddinge was promoted to fill in that spot.

On May 30, 2008, the board of the SIHA decided to decrease the number of teams to fourteen, starting from the 2009–10 season.

In Kvalserien, none of the four top teams from HockeyAllsvenskan succeeded in qualifying for the highest division this year.

With just one team qualifying for HockeyAllsvenskan this season, neither Nybro (third) nor Huddinge (fourth) succeeded in staying in the second division.

Sundsvall and Oskarshamn ended up at the bottom of the league table and had to play a qualification series to requalify for HockeyAllsvenskan.

However, in June the Swedish Ice Hockey Association (SIHA) decided not to grant Björklöven elite license for the upcoming season due to financial concerns and thus Björklöven was relegated to Division 1 and Sundsvall was given a spot in HockeyAllsvenskan next season.

Rögle became the first HockeyAllsvenskan playoff team in history to promote to Elitserien, a feat which Örebro HK subsequently duplicated in 2013.