2008 Tippeligaen

Tippeligaen
Season	2008
Champions	Stabæk 1st title
Relegated	HamKam
Champions League	Stabæk
Europa League	Vålerenga Fredrikstad Tromsø Rosenborg
Matches played	182
Goals scored	505 (2.77 per match)
Top goalscorer	Daniel Nannskog (16 goals)
Biggest home win	Stabæk 6-0 Strømsgodset (14 September 2009)
Biggest away win	Aalesund 0–4 Lyn (4 May 2008)
Highest scoring	Tromsø 4-4 Molde (18 October 2008) Stabæk 6-2 Vålerenga (26 October 2008)
Longest winning run	6 games^[1] Stabæk
Longest unbeaten run	10 games^[1] Stabæk
Longest winless run	9 games^[1] HamKam Vålerenga
Longest losing run	5 games^[1] Strømsgodset
Highest attendance	24,302, at home match of Vålerenga^[2]
Lowest attendance	2,165, at home match of Lyn^[2]
Average attendance	9,812 6.7%
← 2007 2009 →

The 2008 Tippeligaen season began on 29 March and ended 2 November.^[3] Brann were the defending champions, having won their third Tippeligaen championship in 2007. The teams promoted from the First Division at the end of the previous season were champions Molde, automatic qualifiers HamKam, and play-off winners Bodø/Glimt.

Stabæk secured their first ever league championship by defeating Vålerenga 6–2 in the penultimate round. From the 2009 season onwards, the number of teams in the Tippeligaen was expanded from fourteen to sixteen.^[4] To accommodate this expansion, only one team faced automatic relegation to the First Division, as opposed to the regular two, while the three best teams in the First Division were awarded automatic promotion. As in previous years, there was a two-legged playoff at the end of the season, this time between the thirteenth-placed team in the Tippeligaen and the fourth best team in the First Division.

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Stabæk (C)	26	16	6	4	58	24	+34	54	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Fredrikstad	26	14	6	6	38	28	+10	48	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
3	Tromsø	26	12	8	6	36	23	+13	44	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
4	Bodø/Glimt	26	12	6	8	37	38	−1	42
5	Rosenborg	26	11	6	9	40	34	+6	39	2009–10 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round ²
6	Viking	26	11	6	9	38	32	+6	39
7	Lyn	26	11	5	10	38	34	+4	38
8	Brann	26	8	9	9	36	36	0	33
9	Molde	26	7	10	9	39	43	−4	31
10	Vålerenga	26	8	6	12	31	37	−6	30	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round ¹
11	Strømsgodset	26	8	5	13	33	44	−11	29
12	Lillestrøm	26	7	7	12	30	40	−10	28
13	Aalesund	26	7	4	15	29	42	−13	25	Qualification for relegation play-offs
14	HamKam (R)	26	5	6	15	22	50	−28	21	Relegation to Adeccoligaen

Source: speaker.no (in Norwegian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹By winning the 2008 Norwegian Football Cup, Vålerenga qualified for the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round.
²Rosenborg, ranked second after already qualified Stabæk in the 2008 Fair Play competition^[5] will be granted access to the UEFA Europa League first qualifying round after Norway ranked first in the UEFA Fair Play Ranking.^[6]
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Relegation play-offs

By finishing 13th, Aalesund competed in a two-legged relegation play-off against Sogndal, who finished 4th in the 2008 First Division, for the right to play in the 2009 Tippeligaen. Sogndal played at home first, decided in a draw held by the NFF.^[7] Aalesund won 7–2 on aggregate, thereby securing a new season in the Tippeligaen. Sogndal remained in the First Division.

Sogndal v Aalesund

2008-11-08
19:00 CET

Sogndal	1 – 4	Aalesund
Bolseth 50'	Report (in Norwegian)	22' Arnefjord 53' Aarøy 61' (o.g.) Nadolski 94' Diego Silva

Fosshaugane Campus, Sogndal
Attendance: 3,553
Referee: Roy Helge Olsen, Fløy

Aalesund v Sogndal

2008-11-12
19:00 CET

Aalesund	3 – 1	Sogndal
Aarøy 14', 31', 43'	Report (in Norwegian)	43' Håvard Flo

Color Line Stadion, Ålesund
Attendance: 8,646
Referee: Terje Hauge, Olsvik

Results

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Home ╲ Away	Bodø/Glimt !BOD	Brann !SKB	Fredrikstad !FFK	HamKam !HK	Lillestrøm !LSK	Lyn !LYN	Molde !MFK	Rosenborg !RBK	Stabæk !STB	Strømsgodset !SIF	Tromsø !TIL	Viking !VIK	Vålerenga !VIF	Aalesund !AAL
Bodø/Glimt !Bodø/Glimt		3–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	3–2	2–0	3–2	1–2	2–1
Brann !Brann	4–1		4–2	4–1	2–1	2–0	3–4	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–2
Fredrikstad !Fredrikstad	2–0	1–0		2–1	4–0	0–2	2–1	1–1	0–3	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	5–0
HamKam !HamKam	2–2	0–0	1–1		1–2	3–2	0–1	2–1	0–2	1–1	0–1	3–2	1–1	2–1
Lillestrøm !Lillestrøm	3–0	1–1	1–2	0–0		1–2	1–1	4–2	1–1	3–1	1–1	2–0	0–3	3–0
Lyn !Lyn	3–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–0		1–3	1–2	0–2	3–2	3–3	1–1	2–0	3–0
Molde !Molde	1–2	3–2	1–2	2–0	1–1	0–1		1–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–3	5–1	0–0
Rosenborg !Rosenborg	1–3	1–1	1–2	4–0	4–0	2–1	3–1		1–2	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–1	3–1
Stabæk !Stabæk	4–1	3–0	5–1	3–0	4–2	1–1	4–0	1–0		6–0	2–4	0–0	6–2	2–1
Strømsgodset !Strømsgodset	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	2–1	4–0	3–2	0–0		1–3	3–2	1–3	0–1
Tromsø !Tromsø	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	2–0	4–4	4–0	1–0	2–0		0–1	2–0	1–0
Viking !Viking	2–0	1–2	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–0	3–3	0–1	4–1	1–0	2–1		2–3	2–1
Vålerenga !Vålerenga	0–0	0–1	1–1	3–0	3–1	1–2	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	0–0	0–1		1–0
Aalesund !Aalesund	1–0	4–2	0–0	5–0	3–0	0–4	1–1	1–2	1–2	3–1	1–3	1–2	0–0

Source: speaker.no (in Norwegian)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Goalscorers

Sources: fotball.no (in Norwegian), TV 2 Sporten (in Norwegian)

Top scorers

Position	Player	Club	Goals
1	Daniel Nannskog	Stabæk	16
2	Johan Andersson	Stabæk	12
-	José Mota	Molde	12
4	Thorstein Helstad	Brann	11
-	Olivier Occean	Lillestrøm	11
6	Garðar Jóhannsson	Fredrikstad	10
-	Morten Moldskred	Tromsø	10
-	Steffen Iversen	Rosenborg	10
-	Veigar Páll Gunnarsson	Stabæk	10
-	Espen Hoff	Lyn	10
-	Trond Olsen	Bodø/Glimt	10
Total goals:			505
Games played:			182
Average goals per game:			2.77

Other scorers

6–9 goals
	9 goals Alanzinho (Stabæk) David Nielsen (Strømsgodset) Mohammed Abdellaoue (Vålerenga) Tor Hogne Aarøy (Aalesund) 8 goals Arild Sundgot (Lillestrøm) Sigurd Rushfeldt (Tromsø)	7 goals Kim Holmen (Lyn) Mame Biram Diouf (Molde) 6 goals Jan Derek Sørensen (Bodø/Glimt) Odion Ighalo (Lyn) Didier Konan Ya (Rosenborg) Martin Fillo (Viking)

5 goals
Birkir Bjarnason (Bodø/Glimt) Stig Johansen (Bodø/Glimt) Thiago Martins (Bodø/Glimt)	Tarik Elyounoussi (Fredrikstad) Olivier Karekezi (HamKam) Nicolai Stokholm (Viking)	Alexander Ødegaard (Viking) Bengt Sæternes (Vålerenga) Diego Silva (Aalesund)

4 goals
Fernando Wallace (Fredrikstad) Ante Vitaić (HamKam) Diego Gustavino (Lyn) Pape Patè Diouf (Molde) Daniel Berg Hestad (Molde) Yssouf Koné (Rosenborg)	Marek Sapara (Rosenborg) Roar Strand (Rosenborg) Christer George (Strømsgodset) Steffen Nystrøm (Strømsgodset) Stian Ohr (Strømsgodset)	Tommy Knarvik (Tromsø) Mame Niang (Viking) Børre Steenslid (Viking) Daniel Fredheim Holm (Vålerenga) Jonathan Parr (Aalesund)

3 goals
Ólafur Örn Bjarnason (Brann) Njogu Demba-Nyrén (Brann) Gylfi Einarsson (Brann) Azar Karadaş (Brann) Petter Vaagan Moen (Brann) Abgar Barsom (Fredrikstad) Ardian Gashi (Fredrikstad)	Andreas Tegström (Fredrikstad) Markus Ringberg (HamKam) Theódór Elmar Bjarnason (Lyn) Tomasz Sokolowski (Lyn) Magne Hoseth (Molde) Besart Berisha (Rosenborg)	Christian Keller (Stabæk) Fredrik Winsnes (Strømsgodset) Douglas Sequeira (Tromsø) Allan Gaarde (Viking) Andrius Velička (Viking) Bojan Zajić (Vålerenga)

2 goals
Rodolph Austin (Brann) Erik Huseklepp (Brann) Raymond Kvisvik (Fredrikstad) Raio Piiroja (Fredrikstad) Hans Erik Ramberg (Fredrikstad) Kasey Wehrman (Fredrikstad) Vegar Bjerke (HamKam) Juha Pasoja (HamKam) Tommy Øren (HamKam) Ståle Stensaas (Lillestrøm / Lyn)	Vidar Riseth (Lillestrøm) Øyvind Gjerde (Molde) Aksel Berget Skjølsvik (Molde) Alexander Tettey (Rosenborg) Jon Inge Høiland (Stabæk) Pálmi Rafn Pálmason (Stabæk) Glenn Andersen (Strømsgodset) Mattias Andersson (Strømsgodset) Andre Bergdølmo (Strømsgodset)	Ruben Yttergård Jenssen (Tromsø) Miika Koppinen (Tromsø) Kevin Larsen (Tromsø) Adriano Munoz (Tromsø) Vidar Nisja (Viking) Jone Samuelsen (Viking) Luton Shelton (Vålerenga) Gunnar Heiðar Þorvaldsson (Vålerenga) Peter Orry Larsen (Aalesund)

1 goal
Christian Berg (Bodø/Glimt) Runar Berg (Bodø/Glimt) Alo Bärengrub (Bodø/Glimt) Mounir Hamoud (Bodø/Glimt) Per Verner Rønning (Bodø/Glimt) Thomas Rønning (Bodø/Glimt) Tijan Jaiteh (Brann) Kristján Örn Sigurðsson (Brann) Jan Gunnar Solli (Brann) Birkir Már Sævarsson (Brann) Robbie Winters (Brann) Patrik Gerrbrand (Fredrikstad) Oluwasegun Abiodun (HamKam) Adem Güven (HamKam) Knut Henry Haraldsen (HamKam) Marcus Pedersen (HamKam) John Anders Bjørkøy (Lillestrøm) Simen Brenne (Lillestrøm) Frode Kippe (Lillestrøm) Khaled Mouelhi (Lillestrøm)	Magnus Myklebust (Lillestrøm) Steinar Pedersen (Lillestrøm) Endre Fotland Knudsen (Lyn) Lucas Pratto (Lyn) Indriði Sigurðsson (Lyn) Rune Ertsås (Molde) Toni Koskela (Molde) Mattias Moström (Molde) Christian Steen (Molde) Vadim Demidov (Rosenborg) Mikael Dorsin (Rosenborg) Mikael Lustig (Rosenborg) Per Ciljan Skjelbred (Rosenborg) Øyvind Storflor (Rosenborg) John Pelu (Rosenborg) Abdou Razack Traoré (Rosenborg) Morten Skjønsberg (Stabæk) Tom Stenvoll (Stabæk) Somen Tchoyi (Stabæk) Fredrik Nordkvelle (Strømsgodset)	Thomas Sørum (Strømsgodset) Alexander Aas (Strømsgodset) Helge Haugen (Tromsø) André Danielsen (Viking) Tommy Høiland (Viking) Peter Ijeh (Viking) Martin Andresen (Vålerenga) Morten Berre (Vålerenga) Freddy dos Santos (Vålerenga) Jarl André Storbæk (Vålerenga) Kjetil Wæhler (Vålerenga) Johan Arneng (Aalesund) Trond Fredriksen (Aalesund) Erlend Holm (Aalesund) Enar Jääger (Aalesund) Benjamin Kibebe (Aalesund) Peter Kopteff (Aalesund) Lasse Olsen (Aalesund) Denis Selimović (Aalesund) Amund Skiri (Aalesund)

Own goals
Sead Ramović (Tromsø) against Lillestrøm 30/3 Jonathan Parr (Aalesund) against Brann 5/4 Kjetil Wæhler (Vålerenga) against Viking 28/4 Indriði Sigurðsson (Lyn) against Tromsø 25/5 Mame Niang (Viking) against Molde 31/8	Marcus Andreasson (Molde) against Lillestrøm 14/9 Daniel Berg Hestad (Molde) against Tromsø 18/10 Frode Bjørnevik (HamKam) against Lyn 19/10 Erlend Hanstveit (Brann) against Stabæk 19/10 Steinar Pedersen (Lillestrøm) against Vålerenga 20/10

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Lillestrøm	Tom Nordlie	Resigned	29 May 2008^[8]	Frode Grodås Erland Johnsen Erlend Slokvik Jan Åge Fjørtoft	29 May 2008^[9]	13th
Aalesund	Sören Åkeby	Sacked	31 August 2008^[10]	Kjetil Rekdal	4 September 2008^[11]	13th
Lyn	Henning Berg	Mutual consent^[12]	9 September 2008^[13]	Kent Bergersen	9 September 2008^[14]	5th
Lillestrøm	Frode Grodås Erland Johnsen Erlend Slokvik Jan Åge Fjørtoft	Relieved	1 January 2009^[15]	Henning Berg	1 January 2009^[16]	off-season

Attendances

Team	Stadium	Capacity	Turf	Total	Games	Average	% of Capacity
Lyn	Ullevaal Stadion	25,572	Natural	86,359	13	6,643	25.97
Vålerenga	Ullevaal Stadion	25,572	Natural	165,106	13	12,700	49.66
Rosenborg	Lerkendal stadion	21,850	Natural	246,443	13	18,957	86.76
Brann	Brann stadion	17,967	Natural	220,407	13	16,954	94.36
Viking	Viking Stadion	16,600	Natural	199,927	13	15,379	92.64
Fredrikstad	Nye Fredrikstad stadion	12,800	Natural	149,798	13	11,523	90.02
Lillestrøm	Åråsen stadion	11,637	Natural	114,242	13	8,788	75.51
Molde	Aker Stadion	11,167	Natural	106,645	13	8,203	73.45
Aalesund	Color Line Stadion	10,778	Artificial	134,725	13	10,363	96.14
Strømsgodset	Marienlyst stadion	8,500	Artificial	76,890	13	5,915	69.58
Tromsø	Alfheim stadion	8,159	Artificial	71,261	13	5,482	67.18
Bodø/Glimt	Aspmyra stadion	7,659	Artificial	71,533	13	5,503	71.85
HamKam	Briskeby gressbane	7,500^[17]	Natural	66,647	13	5,127	68.36
Stabæk	Nadderud stadion	6,550	Natural	75,203^[18]	13	5,785	88.32

Total	Games	Average
1,785,186	182	9,809

Source: VG Nett (in Norwegian)

References

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2008 in Norwegian football
« 2007 2009 »
League competitions	Tippeligaen 1. Divisjon 2. Divisjon 3. Divisjon Toppserien (W)
Cup competitions	Norwegian Football Cup (Final)
Playoff competitions	To the 2. Divisjon To the First Division (women)
European competitions	Champions League '07–'08 '08–'09 UEFA Cup '07–'08 '08–'09
Related to national team	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA Group 9) Åge Hareide

2007–08 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia '07 '08 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '07 '08 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '07 '08 Faroe Islands '07 '08 Finland '07 '08 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '07 '08 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '07 '08 Latvia '07 '08 Lithuania '07 '08 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '07 '08 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '07 '08 Romania Russia '07 '08 San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '07 '08 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '07 '08 Finland '07 '08 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '07 '08 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '07 '08 Latvia '07 '08 Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '07 '08 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '07 '08 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '07 '08 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
League cups	England Finland '07 '08 France Germany Hungary Iceland '07 '08 Israel Northern Ireland Portugal Republic of Ireland '07 '08 Scotland Wales
UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying rounds, Group stage, Knockout stage, Final) UEFA Cup (Qualifying rounds, Group stage, Knockout stage, Final) Intertoto Cup '07 '08 Super Cup '07 '08

2008–09 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia '08 '09 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '08 '09 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '08 '09 Faroe Islands '08 '09 Finland '08 '09 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '08 '09 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '08 '09 Latvia '08 '09 Lithuania '08 '09 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '08 '09 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '08 '09 Romania Russia '08 '09 San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '08 '09 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '08 '09 Finland '08 '09 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '08 '09 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '08 '09 Latvia '08 '09–'10 Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '08 '09 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '08 '09 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '08 '09 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
League cups	England Finland '08 '09 France Hungary Iceland '08 '09 Israel Northern Ireland Portugal Republic of Ireland '08 '09 Scotland Wales
UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying rounds, Group stage, knockout phase, Final) UEFA Cup (Group stage, final phase, Final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup

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