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 Increase 19.1%
← 2004
2006 →

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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Vålerenga 26 13 7 6 40 27 +13 46 Qualified for the UEFA Champions League
2 Start 26 13 6 7 47 35 +12 45 Qualified for the UEFA Cup
3 Lyn 26 12 8 6 37 21 +16 44
4 Lillestrøm 26 12 6 8 37 31 +6 42 Qualified for the UEFA Intertoto Cup
5 Viking 26 12 5 9 37 32 +5 41
6 Brann 26 10 7 9 43 32 +11 37
7 Rosenborg 26 10 4 12 50 42 +8 34
8 Tromsø 26 8 10 8 31 30 +1 34
9 Odd Grenland 26 9 6 11 28 51 −23 33
10 Ham-Kam 26 8 7 11 31 37 −6 31
11 Fredrikstad 26 8 7 11 35 44 −9 31
12 Molde[lower-alpha 1] 26 8 6 12 40 46 −6 30 Relegation Playoff
13 Aalesund 26 6 9 11 30 42 −12 27 Relegated to Adeccoligaen
14 Bodø/Glimt 26 6 6 14 29 45 −16 24
Source:
Notes:
  1. ↑ Molde qualified as the winner of 2005 Norwegian Football Cup.

Relegation/Promotion

International

Top scorers

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Tippeligaen - 2005". WhoScored.com. WhoScored.com. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Tilskuertall Tippeligaen 2005". nifs.no (in Norwegian). A-pressen. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
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