There will be no changes to the women’s Superpesis series system.
As of next season, the men’s Superpesis of the main league of baseball will give up the extension series. There are 12 teams playing in both men’s and women’s Superpesis.
The follow-up series returned to the men’s side will go down in history, but the number of matches in the regular season will increase to a record. The series is played triple, i.e. each team has 33 matches in the regular season.
Last season’s top six get one more home game. The 12-team series has never been played on such a scale before.
– Regarding series systems, the views of club managers and game managers have been widely heard. It’s a matter of reconciling economic profitability and sportsmanship, the executive director of the Swedish Football Association, Miika Rantatorikka, explains in the press release.
The stakes in the regular season increase when the quarter-final qualifier does not fit into the calendar. The top eight in the regular season will continue directly to the quarterfinals.
The increased number of matches and the strain it brings has also been taken into account in other aspects when the rhythm of the season has been planned.
– In addition to Midsummer, a slightly longer break from series matches will be built around Itä-Lännen. Both men’s and women’s quarterfinals, semifinals and the final are played with a best-of-five system, Rantatorikka says.
There are no changes to the women’s series system
There will be no changes to the women’s Superpesis series system for the coming season. In addition to the double regular season, two additional matches are played per team, which are determined as pairs of matches based on last season’s rankings.
In the Women’s Super Pes, the playoffs begin with the quarter-finals.
Men’s and women’s Superpesis remain open series. The last two in the regular season will have to go to the relegation stage, the loser of which will start looking for speed lower down the league ladder.
Similarly, the champions of Ykköspesis advance to Superpesis. In addition, in the Superpesis qualifying, another Ykköspesis team also has a chance to move up.