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Allsvenskan 2009, part of the 2009 Swedish football season, was the 85th Allsvenskan season played. AIK clinched their first Swedish title since 1998. Source: svenskfotboll.se (Swedish) Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. IFK Göteborg qualified for the Third qualifying round of the Europa League as Svenska Cupen champions 2009. Elfsborg qualified for the Second qualifying round of the Europa League as they received IFK Göteborgs initial qualifying

The 2009 Veikkausliiga was the seventy ninth season of top tier football in Finland. It began on 18 April 2009 and ended on 17 October 2009. Inter Turku were the defending champions. The championship was won by HJK Helsinki, who came out on top of a three team race which also involved Honka Espoo and TPS Turku. On the bottom end of the table, RoPS were relegated to the Ykkönen while JJK will have to compete in a two legged relegation play off. KooTeePee finished at the bottom of the 2008 season

The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of bushfires that ignited or were burning across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday, 7 February 2009. The fires occurred during extreme bushfire weather conditions, and resulted in Australia's highest ever loss of life from a bushfire; 173 people died and 414 were injured as a result of the fires. As many as 400 individual fires were recorded on 7 February. Following the events of 7 February 2009 and its aftermath, that day has

The 2009 NFL season was the 90th regular season of the National Football League. The preseason started with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game on August 9, 2009, and the regular season began September 10. The season ended with Super Bowl XLIV, the league's championship game, on February 7, 2010 at Sun Life Stadium with the New Orleans Saints defeating the Indianapolis Colts 31–17. in Miami Gardens, Florida. The 2009 NFL Draft was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on April 25 and 26

The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake occurred in the region of Abruzzo, in central Italy. The main shock occurred at 3:32 local time (1:32 UTC) on 6 April 2009, and was rated 5.8 on the Richter scale and 6.3 on the moment magnitude scale; its epicentre was near L'Aquila, the capital of Abruzzo, which together with surrounding villages suffered most damage. There have been several thousand foreshocks and aftershocks since December 2008, more than thirty of which had a Richter magnitude greater than 3.5 .

The Superettan 2009 was the ninth season of Sweden's second tier football league. The season began on 11 April 2009 and ended on 24 October 2009. The top 2 teams qualified directly for promotion to Allsvenskan, the third played a play off against the fourteenth from Allsvenskan to decide who qualified to play in Allsvenskan 2010. The bottom 2 teams qualified directly for relegation to Division 1, the thirteenth and the fourteenth played a play off against the numbers two from Division 1 Södra