The list of the team squads of the Elitserien (chess) 1996/97 contains all players who played at least one game in the Swedish Elitserien in chess 1996/97 .
The Schacksällskapet Luleå managed with 9 players, the Limhamns SK used most of the players, namely 14. A total of 118 players were used, 36 of which played all competitions.
The best point player of the season was Mats Sjöberg (SK Rockaden Stockholm) with 8 points from 9 games, half a point less was achieved by his club colleague Jonas Barkhagen . Carl-Magnus Björk (SK Rockaden Stockholm) and Anton Åberg (SK Kamraterna) each had 7 points, Björk played 8 games, Åberg 9. With John-Paul Wallace (Södra SASS), Ulf Andersson (SK Rockaden Stockholm) and Ulf Nyberg (SK Kamraterna) three players achieved 100%, but they only played a few games. Wallace was used three times, Andersson and Nyberg once each.
The season's oldest players were Per Johansson (Södra SASS) and Leif Svensson (SK Kamraterna), born in 1940, and the youngest player was Joel Åkesson (* 1980), who played for SS Manhem.
Legend
The tables below contain the following information:
No .: Ranking list number
Title: FIDE title at the beginning of the season (rating list from July 1996); GM = Grand Master , IM = International Master , FM = FIDE Master , WGM = Women's Grand Master, WIM = International Women's Master, WFM = Women's FIDE Master, CM = Candidate Master, WCM = Women's Candidate Master
Elo: Elo number at the beginning of the season (rating list from July 1996), for players without an Elo number the (Swedish) LASK number from September 1996 is shown in brackets
Nation: Nationality according to the rating list from July 1996; AUS = Australia, FIN = Finland, RUS = Russia, SUI = Switzerland, SWE = Sweden, YUG = Yugoslavia
G: number of winning games
R: Number of draw games
V: number of losing games
Pkt .: Number of points achieved
Games: Number of games played
Elo performance: tournament performance of the players with at least 5 games
