Norwegian Bandy Premier League

The Norwegian Bandy Premier League (Norwegian: Eliteserien) is the top level of bandy in Norway. National bandy champions have been named yearly since 1912, but the league was only founded in 1932.

The league consists of eight teams. After the regular league, the leading teams goes to a play-off which decides what team will be the Norwegian champion. Since 1976, the winner of the league is formally awarded the title league champion (Norwegian: seriemester), a title which however is not counted to be worth as much as the national championship title. Stabæk Idrettsforening won the final in 2016.

Structure

All the eight teams plays the other teams three times during a season.^[1] At the end of the season, each team will have played 21 matches.

The teams are ranked according to the following:

1. Number of points (two for win, one for draw, nill for loss).
2. The results against each other.
3. Goal difference.
4. Number of goals scored.

The two bottom teams play a qualification round against the two top teams in the second highest division. The two teams which win the qualification round will play in the premier league in the next season.

League Champions since 1976

1976–77: Mjøndalen IF 1977–78: Mjøndalen IF 1978–79: Mjøndalen IF 1979–80: Mjøndalen IF 1980–81: Mjøndalen IF 1981–82: Solberg SK 1982–83: Mjøndalen IF 1983–84: Solberg SK 1984–85: Mjøndalen IF 1985–86: SB Drafn

1986–87: Solberg SK 1987–88: SB Drafn 1988–89: Skeid 1989–90: Solberg SK 1990–91: SB Drafn 1991–92: Sarpsborg BK 1992–93: Stabæk IF 1993–94: Stabæk IF 1994–95: Solberg SK 1995–96: Stabæk IF

1996–97: Stabæk IF 1997–98: Stabæk IF 1998–99: Stabæk IF 1999–2000: Stabæk IF 2000–01: Stabæk IF 2001–02: Stabæk IF 2002–03: Mjøndalen IF 2003–04: Mjøndalen IF 2004–05: Mjøndalen IF 2005–06: Stabæk IF

2006–07: Stabæk IF 2007–08: Solberg SK 2008–09: Solberg SK 2009–10: Solberg SK 2010–11: Solberg SK 2011–12: Stabæk IF 2012–13: Stabæk IF 2013–14: Stabæk IF

Norwegian Champions

The six top teams go to play-off for the national championship. Teams 3 and 4 in the table play against team 5 or 6. The winners of these matches meet team 1 and 2 in semifinals. The winners of the semifinals meet in the national championship final.

References

1. "Kampreglement" (pdf) (in Norwegian). Norges Bandyforbund. Retrieved 21 November 2013.