2011 Tippeligaen

Tippeligaen

Season	2011
Champions	Molde 1st title
Relegated	Start Sarpsborg 08
Champions League	Molde
Europa League	Aalesund Tromsø Rosenborg Stabæk
Matches played	240
Goals scored	708 (2.95 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mostafa Abdellaoue (17 goals)
Biggest home win	Rosenborg 7-0 Odd Grenland (29 August 2011)
Biggest away win	Stabæk 0–7 Lillestrøm (20 March 2011)
Highest scoring	Rosenborg 3-6 Brann (30 October 2011)
Longest winning run	5 games[1] Molde Odd Grenland
Longest unbeaten run	10 games[1] Molde Tromsø
Longest winless run	21 games[1] Sarpsborg 08
Longest losing run	7 games[1] Sarpsborg 08
Highest attendance	20,710, at home match of Rosenborg[2]
Lowest attendance	1,884, at home match of Sogndal[2]
Average attendance	7,994[3]
← 2010 2012 →

The 2011 Tippeligaen season was the sixty-seventh season of top-tier football in Norway. The competition began on 20 March 2011 and ended on 27 November 2011. Rosenborg were the defending champions, having secured their twenty-second League Championship on 24 October 2010.^[4]

At the end of the season, Sarpsborg 08 and Start were relegated to the 2012 First Division, due to having finished in the bottom two positions in the standings. There was no two-legged promotion playoff this season.

On 30 October 2011, Molde became champions after their only remaining challenger, Rosenborg, lost 3-6 to Brann in the 28th round of the series. The trophy is their first ever league championship.^[5]

Teams

Kongsvinger and Sandefjord were relegated at the end of the 2010 Tippeligaen season after finishing in the bottom two places of the league table. Sandefjord ended a two-year tenure at the highest football level of Norway, while Kongsvinger returned to the First Division after just one season. They were replaced by 2010 First Division champions Sogndal and runners-up Sarpsborg 08. Sogndal returned to the Tippeligaen after a six-year hiatus, while Sarpsborg 08 made its debut at the Norwegian top-level league.

Hønefoss as 14th-placed Tippeligaen team had to compete in a relegation/promotion playoff with the First Division teams ranked third through fifth (Fredrikstad, Løv-Ham and Ranheim) for one spot in the 2011 Tippeligaen. This spot was taken by Fredrikstad, who defeated Hønefoss 8–1 on aggregate in the playoff finals and returned to Norway's top flight after just one season. In turn, Hønefoss had to return to the First Division, also after just one season.

Team	Location	Arena	Turf	Capacity	Manager
Aalesunds FK	Ålesund	Color Line Stadion	Artificial	10,778	Kjetil Rekdal
SK Brann	Bergen	Brann Stadion	Natural	17,824	Rune Skarsfjord
Fredrikstad	Fredrikstad	Fredrikstad Stadion	Natural	13,300	Tom Freddy Aune
FK Haugesund	Haugesund	Haugesund stadion	Natural	5,000	Jostein Grindhaug
Lillestrøm SK	Lillestrøm	Åråsen stadion	Natural	11,637	Henning Berg
Molde FK	Molde	Aker Stadion	Natural	11,800	Ole Gunnar Solskjær
Odd Grenland	Skien	Skagerak Arena	Artificial	13,500	Dag Eiliv Fagermo
Rosenborg BK	Trondheim	Lerkendal stadion	Natural	21,850	Jan Jönsson
Sarpsborg 08	Sarpsborg	Sarpsborg Stadion	Artificial	5,000	Roar Johansen
Sogndal	Sogndal	Fosshaugane Campus	Natural	5,402	Harald Aabrekk
Stabæk Fotball	Bærum	Telenor Arena	Artificial	15,500	Jörgen Lennartsson
IK Start	Kristiansand	Sør Arena	Natural	14,300	Mons Ivar Mjelde
Strømsgodset IF	Drammen	Marienlyst Stadion	Artificial	7,500	Ronny Deila
Tromsø IL	Tromsø	Alfheim Stadion	Artificial	7,500	Per Mathias Høgmo
Viking FK	Stavanger	Viking Stadion	Natural	16,600	Åge Hareide
Vålerenga Fotball	Oslo	Ullevaal Stadion	Natural	25,572	Martin Andresen

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Table
Rosenborg	Nils Arne Eggen	End of contract	31 December 2010	Pre-Season	Jan Jönsson	1 January 2011[6]	Pre-Season
Stabæk	Jan Jönsson	Signed by Rosenborg BK	31 December 2010	Pre-Season	Jörgen Lennartsson	1 January 2011[7]	Pre-Season
Molde	Uwe Rösler	End of contract	31 December 2010	Pre-Season	Ole Gunnar Solskjær	1 January 2011[8]	Pre-Season
Start	Knut Tørum	Resigned	22 June 2011	15th	Mons Ivar Mjelde	12 July 2011	14th
Lillestrøm	Henning Berg	Sacked	27 October 2011	12th	Petter Belsvik (caretaker)	27 October 2011	12th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Molde (C)	30	17	7	6	54	38	+16	58	2012–13 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Tromsø	30	15	8	7	56	34	+22	53	2012–13 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
3	Rosenborg	30	14	7	9	69	44	+25	49	2012–13 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
4	Brann	30	14	6	10	51	49	+2	48
5	Odd Grenland	30	14	6	10	44	44	0	48
6	Haugesund	30	14	5	11	55	43	+12	47
7	Vålerenga	30	14	5	11	42	33	+9	47
8	Strømsgodset	30	12	9	9	44	43	+1	45
9	Aalesund	30	12	7	11	36	38	−2	43	2012–13 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round ^1
10	Stabæk	30	11	6	13	44	50	−6	39	2012–13 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round ^2
11	Viking	30	9	10	11	33	40	−7	37
12	Fredrikstad	30	10	6	14	38	41	−3	36
13	Lillestrøm	30	9	7	14	46	52	−6	34
14	Sogndal	30	8	10	12	24	31	−7	34
15	Start (R)	30	7	5	18	39	61	−22	26	Relegation to Adeccoligaen
16	Sarpsborg 08 (R)	30	5	6	19	31	65	−34	21

Updated to games played on 27 November 2011.
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Aalesund is qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League as winners of the 2011 Norwegian Football Cup.
² Stabæk is qualified for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League via Fair Play rankings.^[9][10]
(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.

Positions by round

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Molde	15	13	14	10	8	10	7	4	5	5	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Tromsø	3	4	1	4	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2
Rosenborg BK	9	14	15	15	12	11	12	11	13	14	12	9	11	11	10	9	7	8	8	8	7	4	4	3	2	4	4	3	5	3
Brann	6	2	3	5	9	4	2	5	8	6	6	7	5	3	3	4	4	3	2	3	3	3	3	4	5	6	5	4	3	4
Odd Grenland	12	7	12	12	13	12	11	12	14	13	15	13	12	12	12	13	13	13	13	11	14	11	9	8	6	7	6	5	4	5
Haugesund	12	8	11	11	14	15	14	15	10	7	9	6	9	10	8	11	8	6	6	7	8	5	7	7	7	5	8	8	7	6
Vålerenga	3	3	4	6	10	13	13	13	11	11	13	11	7	9	11	10	11	11	12	9	9	8	5	5	4	3	3	6	8	7
Strømsgodset	6	11	7	3	1	1	4	2	2	2	3	4	4	5	4	3	3	4	5	6	5	6	6	6	8	8	7	7	6	8
Aalesund	9	15	13	13	11	6	5	8	4	3	4	3	3	4	5	8	10	10	10	10	12	12	12	12	11	10	9	9	9	9
Stabæk	16	12	8	8	6	3	6	3	3	4	5	5	6	7	9	7	5	7	7	4	4	7	8	9	9	9	10	10	10	10
Viking	12	10	10	14	15	14	15	16	16	16	16	15	15	14	15	12	12	12	11	13	10	10	11	11	10	12	11	11	11	11
Fredrikstad	6	9	6	2	5	5	3	7	6	8	8	12	8	6	7	6	9	9	9	12	11	13	13	13	13	14	14	13	12	12
Lillestrøm	1	5	9	9	7	7	9	10	9	10	10	8	10	8	6	5	6	5	4	5	6	9	10	10	12	11	12	12	13	13
Sogndal	9	16	16	16	16	16	16	14	15	15	14	16	16	16	16	15	14	14	14	14	13	14	14	14	14	13	13	14	14	14
Start	3	1	2	1	3	8	10	9	12	12	11	14	14	15	14	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
Sarpsborg 08	2	6	5	7	4	9	8	6	7	9	7	10	13	13	16	14	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

Last updated: 27 November 2011
Source: rsssf.no

Results

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Brann

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Fredrikstad

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Haugesund

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Lillestrøm

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Molde

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Odd Grenland

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Rosenborg

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Sarpsborg 08

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Sogndal

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Stabæk

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Start

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Strømsgodset

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Tromsø

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Viking

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Vålerenga

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Aalesund

Home ╲ Away

AaFK

SKB

FFK

HAU

LSK

MFK

ODD

RBK

S08

SIL

STB

IKS

SIF

TIL

VIK

VIF

Aalesund

3–1

1–2

1–0

1–0

1–3

0–1

1–3

2–0

1–0

2–0

0–0

2–1

1–0

2–0

2–1

Brann

1–1

0–1

1–0

2–0

1–3

2–0

2–1

1–0

2–0

2–1

2–1

0–0

1–1

3–2

1–4

Fredrikstad

3–1

4–2

1–0

1–1

0–1

0–1

2–0

1–1

2–2

1–2

1–1

1–1

0–2

0–1

3–1

Haugesund

1–0

3–3

3–2

2–0

5–0

2–1

2–2

4–2

4–0

3–4

1–0

5–1

1–1

2–0

1–1

Lillestrøm

1–1

1–4

0–0

5–0

0–3

1–1

2–5

3–1

0–3

1–1

2–1

4–2

3–2

2–1

0–1

Molde

5–2

2–2

2–1

3–1

1–0

0–0

0–2

3–1

2–0

3–2

5–1

2–2

2–2

0–0

2–1

Odd Grenland

2–2

2–3

2–1

1–0

1–3

1–0

3–3

1–0

1–0

2–3

0–2

1–0

3–1

4–2

1–1

Rosenborg BK

2–2

3–6

2–0

0–1

4–4

3–1

7–0

4–0

2–1

1–2

4–1

2–0

3–1

3–2

2–0

Sarpsborg 08

2–0

3–5

1–4

0–3

2–4

3–0

3–2

0–6

1–0

1–1

2–0

1–1

0–2

1–1

0–2

Sogndal

0–0

1–0

0–1

3–1

2–0

2–1

1–4

1–1

1–0

0–0

2–0

1–1

0–0

0–0

0–1

Stabæk

1–2

1–1

3–1

1–2

0–7

1–1

1–3

2–1

2–0

0–1

4–1

2–0

2–4

0–1

1–0

Start

2–3

3–1

3–2

1–4

3–0

1–2

1–3

1–1

1–0

1–1

2–4

5–1

1–6

4–0

0–2

Strømsgodset

2–2

1–0

1–0

3–1

3–1

0–1

2–0

3–1

5–2

2–1

1–0

3–0

1–1

2–2

2–1

Tromsø

1–0

4–0

3–1

2–0

1–0

0–2

2–1

3–1

2–2

0–0

3–3

2–0

2–0

3–1

4–1

Viking

1–0

3–0

2–0

1–1

2–0

2–2

1–1

0–0

2–2

2–0

1–0

1–1

0–1

2–1

0–2

Vålerenga

2–0

0–2

1–2

3–2

1–1

1–2

0–1

1–0

2–0

1–1

2–0

2–1

2–2

2–0

3–0

Updated to games played on 27 November 2011.
Source: NRK Sport (Norwegian)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Top goalscorers Rank Scorer Club Goals Games Average 1 Mostafa Abdellaoue Tromsø 17 29 0.59 2 Rade Prica Rosenborg 16 27 0.59 Ole Martin Årst Start 16 30 0.53 4 Kim Ojo Brann 15 28 0.54 5 Anthony Ujah Lillestrøm 13 12 1.08 Tarik Elyounoussi Fredrikstad 13 28 0.46 7 Pape Paté Diouf Molde 12 14 0.86 Mushaga Bakenga Rosenborg 12 26 0.46 Nikola Đurđić Haugesund 12 27 0.44 Veigar Páll Gunnarsson Vålerenga† 12 29 0.41 11 Espen Hoff Start 11 29 0.38 Alexander Søderlund Haugesund 11 29 0.38 †Veigar Páll Gunnarsson scored nine goals in sixteen games for Stabæk. Source: Alt om fotball

Top assistants Rank Scorer Club Assists Games Average 1 Øyvind Storflor Strømsgodset 12 28 0.43 2 Thomas Drage Tromsø 11 30 0.37 3 Nikola Đurđić Haugesund 9 27 0.33 Daniel Bamberg Haugesund 9 28 0.32 Veigar Páll Gunnarsson Vålerenga† 9 29 0.31 Diego Guastavino Brann 9 29 0.31 7 Björn Bergmann Sigurdarson Lillestrøm 8 20 0.40 Kim Ojo Brann 8 28 0.29 Mikael Lustig Rosenborg 8 30 0.27 10 Etzaz Hussain Fredrikstad 7 20 0.35 Karim Essediri Lillestrøm 7 28 0.25 Remi Johansen Tromsø 7 29 0.24 Jo Nymo Matland Aalesund†† 7 29 0.24 †Veigar Páll Gunnarsson assisted five goals in sixteen games for Stabæk. ††Jo Nymo Matland assisted three goals in seventeen games for Sarpsborg 08. Source: Alt om fotball

See also

• 2011 in Norwegian football
• 2011 Norwegian First Division

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