2005 Tippeligaen

Tippeligaen

Season	2005
Champions	Vålerenga 5th title
Relegated	Aalesund Bodø/Glimt
Champions League	Vålerenga
UEFA Cup	Molde Start Lyn
Intertoto Cup	Lillestrøm
Matches played	182
Goals scored	515 (2.83 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ole Martin Årst (16 goals)
Biggest home win	Rosenborg 6-0 Odd Grenland (25 September 2005) Lyn 6-0 Bodø/Glimt (29 October 2005)
Biggest away win	Odd Grenland 0–5 Rosenborg (29 May 2005)
Highest scoring	Start 4-5 Aalesund (15 October 2005)
Longest winning run	5 games[1] Vålerenga Viking Tromsø Odd Grenland
Longest unbeaten run	10 games[1] Vålerenga
Longest winless run	11 games[1] Tromsø
Longest losing run	6 games[1] Rosenborg
Highest attendance	24,894, at home match of Vålerenga[2]
Lowest attendance	3,051, at home match of Odd Grenland[2]
Average attendance	9,496 19.1%
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The Tippeligaen is a football league in Norway. Its 2005 season began on 10 April 2005, and was concluded with the last of 26 rounds played on 29 October. 3 points were given for wins and 1 for draws.

Vålerenga, the winner of this year's season entered the second round of next year's Champions League qualification, while the runners-up (Start), number 3 (Lyn) and the Norwegian Cup winners enter the UEFA Cup qualification round. The top four teams qualified for the 2004–05 Royal League.

Number thirteen (Aalesund) and fourteen (Bodø/Glimt) were relegated, while number twelve (Molde) had to play two qualification matches (home and away) against number three (Moss) in Adeccoligaen (where number one and two are directly promoted) for the last spot in next year's season. Molde won the qualification matches.

The greatest surprises of the 2005 season were the great performance of Start, promoted to the Tippeligaen in the 2004 season and ended up winning silver, and the disappointing performance of Rosenborg which fought against relegation from the Premier League after winning it for 13 straight seasons.

The season ended on a sad note as Fredrikstad's Dagfinn Enerly got a serious neck injury in the last round match against Start, which made him a paraplegic.

1,726,145 people attended the matches, a new record for the Tippeligaen and 300,000 more than the previous year. It is also more than twice as many as in 1995, when only 841,717 attended the matches during the whole season.

League table

¹Molde qualified as the winner of 2005 Norwegian Football Cup.

Relegation/Promotion

• Bodø/Glimt and Aalesund were relegated.
• Stabæk and Sandefjord were directly promoted.
• Molde won playoff against Moss, 5-2 on aggregate.
  • Match 1: Moss 2-3 Molde
  • Match 2: Molde 2-0 Moss

International

• Vålerenga goes to 2006–07 UEFA Champions League qualification round
• Start (2nd), Lyn (3rd) and Molde (Norwegian Cup winner) go to 2006–07 UEFA Cup qualification round
• Vålerenga (1st), Start (2nd), Lyn (3rd) and Lillestrøm (4th) qualify for 2005–06 Royal League

Top scorers

• 16 goals:
  • Ole Martin Årst, Tromsø
• 14 goals:
  • Egil Østenstad, Viking
• 13 goals:
  • Thorstein Helstad, Rosenborg
• 11 goals:
  • Arild Sundgot, Lillestrøm
• 10 goals:
  • Rob Friend, Molde
• 9 goals:
  • Morten Berre, Vålerenga
  • Bengt Sæternes, Brann
• 8 goals:
  • Jo Tessem, Lyn
  • Marius Johnsen, Start
  • Espen Olsen, Ham-Kam
  • Robbie Winters, Brann
  • Robert Koren, Lillestrøm
  • Olivier Occean, Odd Grenland
  • Markus Ringberg, Ham-Kam
  • Jan Derek Sørensen, Lyn

See also

• 2005 in Norwegian football
• Adeccoligaen 2005

References

External links

• Norwegian Football Association
• Fixtures, results and table for Tippeligaen 2005