however the club was not let down by this and came in 2nd place in 1982 and this time they qualified for the promotion play-offs against ifk norrköping, bk häcken is able to reach a 2–0 result home at rambergsvallen and then achieve a 1–1 away at idrottsparken in norrköping and the club reached allsvenskan for the first time in club history.