2010 Norwegian Second Division

The 2010 season of the 2. divisjon, the third highest association football league for men in Norway.

26 games were played in 4 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. HamKam, Notodden, Stavanger and Skeid were relegated from the 2009 Norwegian First Division. Asker, Hødd, Randaberg and HamKam were promoted to the 2011 Norwegian First Division. Number twelve, thirteen and fourteen were relegated to the Third Division, except for the number twelve team with the most points. The winning teams from each of the 24 groups in the Third Division each faced a winning team from another group in a playoff match, resulting in 12 playoff winners which were promoted to the 2011 Norwegian Second Division.

League tables

Group 1

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Asker	26	17	6	3	71	30	+41	57
2	Notodden	26	16	3	7	71	25	+46	51
3	Kjelsås	26	14	5	7	58	47	+11	47
4	Nest-Sotra	26	14	4	8	54	50	+4	46
5	Manglerud Star	26	11	8	7	62	46	+16	41
6	Åsane	26	11	5	10	49	46	+3	38
7	Bærum	26	10	5	11	52	44	+8	35
8	Førde	26	10	5	11	43	61	-18	35
9	Frigg	26	8	10	8	44	48	-4	34
10	Vålerenga 2	26	10	2	14	61	68	-7	32
11	Stabæk 2	26	8	7	11	41	53	-12	31
12	Os	26	7	6	13	41	52	-11	27
13	Stord	26	5	5	16	35	71	-36	20
14	Fana	26	3	5	18	27	68	-41	14

Group 2

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Hødd	26	18	6	2	81	23	+58	60
2	Kristiansund	26	17	4	5	60	35	+25	55
3	Skeid	26	15	5	6	49	28	+21	50
4	Rosenborg 2	26	14	5	7	64	39	+25	47
5	Aalesund 2	26	11	3	12	36	47	-11	36
6	Nardo	26	9	7	10	44	46	-2	34
7	Strindheim	26	8	9	9	33	42	-9	33
8	Molde 2	26	8	8	10	47	57	-10	32
9	Steinkjer	26	9	4	13	40	56	-16	31
10	Levanger	26	8	6	12	46	49	-3	30
11	Byåsen	26	8	7	11	40	60	-20	29
12	Skarbøvik	26	8	4	14	34	39	-5	28
13	Oslo City	26	5	4	17	37	61	-24	19
14	Kolstad	26	3	10	13	32	61	-29	19

• Byåsen was deducted two points for using an ineligible player.

Group 3

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Randaberg	26	17	2	7	51	40	+11	53
2	Flekkerøy	26	14	5	7	60	33	+27	47
3	FK Tønsberg	26	13	7	6	62	39	+23	46
4	Ørn-Horten	26	14	3	9	52	46	+6	45
5	Vard Haugesund	26	13	4	9	54	35	+19	40
6	Odd Grenland 2	26	10	8	8	40	41	-1	38
7	Vindbjart	26	11	5	10	47	52	-5	38
8	Vidar	26	10	7	9	47	40	+7	37
9	Pors Grenland	26	11	4	11	41	41	0	37
10	Ålgård	26	8	10	8	45	36	+9	34
11	Fram Larvik	26	9	6	11	45	53	-8	33
12	Start 2	26	7	6	13	40	51	-11	26
13	Kopervik	26	4	3	19	29	65	-36	15
14	Stavanger	26	3	6	17	29	70	-41	14

• Vard was deducted three points for using an ineligible player.
• Start 2 was deducted one point for using an ineligible player.
• Stavanger was deducted one point for using an ineligible player.

Group 4

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	HamKam	26	19	2	5	75	25	+50	59
2	KFUM Oslo	26	18	3	5	69	30	+39	56
3	Brumunddal	26	14	4	8	62	50	+12	46
4	Raufoss	26	13	3	10	41	38	+3	42
5	Harstad	26	13	2	11	58	51	+7	41
6	Tromsø 2	26	12	1	13	51	50	+1	37
7	Lørenskog	26	11	3	12	56	55	+1	36
8	Senja	26	10	5	11	48	52	-4	35
9	Valdres	26	10	5	11	40	45	-5	35
10	Ull-Kisa	26	9	5	12	43	56	-13	32
11	Strømsgodset 2	26	9	4	13	63	70	-7	31
12	Lillehammer	26	9	4	13	45	53	-8	31
13	Eidsvold Turn	26	7	5	14	41	58	-17	26
14	Mo	26	3	4	19	26	85	-59	13

• KFUM was deducted one point for using an ineligible player.
• Lillehammer survived as the best number-twelve-team, because the club Lyn was liquidated.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals	Group
1	Thomas Lehne Olsen	HamKam	25	Group 4
2	Mostafa Abdellaoue	Vålerenga 2	23	Group 1
	Armin Sistek	Asker	23	Group 1
4	Stian Nikodemussen	Manglerud Star	21	Group 1
	Øyvind L. Gaustad	Vindbjart	21	Group 3
6	Eirik Soltvedt	Ull-Kisa	20	Group 4
7	Jim Johansen	Strømsgodset 2	19	Group 4
8	Tarjei Dale	Notodden	18	Group 1
	Joachim Magnussen	Hødd	18	Group 2
	Tor Øyvind Reinemo	KFUM	18	Group 4

Source: Group 1, Group 2, Group 3 & Group 4.

Promotion playoff

Further information: Playoffs to the Norwegian Second Division#2010

References

• Tables
• Top goalscorers