Toppserien

Toppserien

Countries	Norway
Confederation	UEFA
Founded	1984
Divisions	1
Number of teams	12
Levels on pyramid	1
Relegation to	1. divisjon
Domestic cup(s)	Norwegian Cup
International cup(s)	UEFA Champions League
Current champions	Røa (2011)
Most championships	Trondheims-Ørn (7)
Website	fotball.no
2011 Toppserien

Toppserien is the Norwegian professional league for women's association football clubs. It is the top level league and was founded in 1984.

History

Women's league football was introduced on a county basis in 1977. These leagues acted as qualification for the regional (South) league in 1979. Regional leagues were in operation until the formation of the First Division 1984, when the league was divided in to three regions, Group Eastern-Norway (Østlandet), Group Western-Norway (Vestlandet), and Group Mid-Norway (Trøndelag). No teams from Northern-Norway (Nord-Norge) played, however. The winners of the three groups met each other for a play-off. Regional leagues for women had been played before 1984, and a championship play-off had been done between the winners of Mid-Norway and Eastern-Norway in 1983 (Trondheims-Ørn beat Setskog 2-1), but this championship was considered unofficial by the Football Association of Norway. In 1986, a group for Northern-Norway was added, and in 1987, the groups and play-off matches were dropped, and one single league with teams from all over the country was played.

The league was known as the First Division (Norwegian: 1. divisjon) from 1984 to 1995, the Elite League (Norwegian: Eliteserien) from 1996 to 1999, and the Top League (Toppserien) from 2000.

Traditionally, Trondheims-Ørn and Asker have been the two power-houses of Toppserien, with 7 and 6 championship wins respectively. Trondheims-Ørn has finished in the top three 15 out of 21 times, while Asker has been among the top three 16 out of 21 times. In 1998, Asker managed the almost unthinkable, winning every single one of their 18 league games that season (Asker didn't win the double that season, however, as the club was knocked out of the semi-finals of the cup by Trondheims-Ørn). However Asker FK, the women's team within Asker Fotball, became bankrupt at the end of 2008 and most of the players were transferred to a new team within the nearby Stabæk IF, named Stabæk FK (FK = Fotball Kvinner (Football Ladies)). The new team will play in the Toppserien from the 2009 season.

The league

The league currently consists of 12 teams, which play each other 2 times (home and away), for a total of 22 matches. The season lasts from April to October. Teams are ranked by:^[1]

• Number of points (3 points per win, 1 point per draw).
• Goal difference
• Goals scored
• Results between the tied teams.

2011 teams

Grimstad

Ytre Arna

Kleppe

Bergen

Trondheim

Harstad

Sofiemyr

Oslo

Kjeller

Locations of teams in the 2010–11 Fußball-Bundesliga

Team	Home city	Home ground	In Toppserien since	First time in Toppserien
Amazon Grimstad	Grimstad	JJ Ugland Stadion	2006	2006
Arna-Bjørnar	Ytre Arna	Arna Idrettspark	2006	1997
IL Sandviken	Bergen	Stemmemyren	2011	1987
Medkila IL	Harstad	Harstad stadion	2011	2004
Kattem	Trondheim	Byåsen Arena	2007	2005
Klepp	Kleppe (Stavanger)	Klepp Stadion	1987	1987
Kolbotn	Kolbotn (Oslo)	Sofiemyr	1995	1995
Linderud-Grei	Oslo	Greibanen	2010	2010
LSK Kvinner	Lillestrøm (Oslo)	LSK-Hallen	1987	1987
Røa	Oslo	Røabanen	2001	2001
Stabæk	Bærum (Oslo)	Nadderud Stadion	2009	2009
Trondheims-Ørn	Trondheim	DnB Nor Arena	1987	1987

List of champions

The list of champions^[2]

First division 1984 Sprint/Jeløy 1985 Nymark 1986 Sprint/Jeløy 1987 Klepp 1988 Asker 1989 Asker 1990 Sprint/Jeløy 1991 Asker 1992 Asker 1993 Sprint/Jeløy 1994 Trondheims-Ørn 1995 Trondheims-Ørn

Eliteserien 1996 Trondheims-Ørn 1997 Trondheims-Ørn 1998 Asker 1999 Asker

Toppserien 2000 Trondheims-Ørn 2001 Trondheims-Ørn 2002 Kolbotn 2003 Trondheims-Ørn 2004 Røa 2005 Kolbotn 2006 Kolbotn 2007 Røa 2008 Røa 2009 Røa 2010 Stabæk 2011 Røa

Top flight champions in Norwegian football

The following clubs have won the top division in Norwegian football since 1984

Titles	Team
7	Trondheims-Ørn
6	Asker1
5	Røa
4	Sprint/Jeløy
3	Kolbotn
1	Klepp Nymark Stabæk1

¹ = In 2008 Stabæk was handed the license to play in the top league, and also took over the best players from Asker, because of financial problems in the latter. But the rest of Asker remains, and they still have their top female team in the league two. Therefore Stabæk is not to be considered the successor of Asker.

See also

• List of football clubs in Norway
• Norwegian Men's Premier League

References

1. ^ "2011 regulations". fotball.no. pp. 96-97. http://www.fotball.no/Documents/PDF/2011/Lov_og_reglement/Kampreglement_hefte_2011.pdf?epslanguage=en. Retrieved 9 October 2011. 
2. ^ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesn/noo-womchamp.html

External links

• Toppserien+
• League at UEFA