Lagdelt

Lagdelt is a term used in Swedish and Norwegian to describe a system, format, or condition in which participants or components are divided into teams. The word is a compound of lag, meaning team in these languages, and delt, the past participle of delta/dela meaning divided or shared. In usage, lagdelt indicates that a situation operates with a team-based subdivision rather than a single homogeneous group.

It appears in sports, education, and workplace settings to signal a deliberate allocation of people or tasks into multiple teams that function in parallel or in sequence. In sports, a lagdelt format might assign players to fixed teams for the duration of a tournament. In education or corporate environments, lagdelt groupings describe tasks or assignments distributed across teams, with each team responsible for a portion of the work.

The term is most common in Scandinavian languages and may be used alongside related expressions such as lagindelning or teamindelning. It is typically used descriptively rather than prescriptively and may vary in nuance by country or domain.

See also: lag (team), lagindelning, teamindelning, delning.