2012 Toppserien
CompetitionToppserien
Season2012
WinnersLillestrøm
RelegatedFart, Kattem
Continentalcup 1Champions League
Continentalcup1 qualifiersLillestrøm
League topscorerIsabell Herlovsen
(25 goals)
Biggest home winRøa 7–0 Fart
Biggest away winFart 0–11 Arna-Bjørnar
Highest scoringFart 0–11 Arna-Bjørnar
Longest wins11 games - Røa[1]
Longest unbeaten15 games - Stabæk[1]
Longest winless22 games - Fart[1]
Longest losses22 games - Fart[1]
Matches132
Total goals501
Attendance26,068[2]
Average attendance197[2]
Prevseason2011
Nextseason2013

The 2012 Toppserien was the 29th season of top-tier women's football in Norway. A total of 12 teams contested the league, ten returning from the 2011 season and the two teams promoted from the First Division, Vålerenga and Fart.

The season started on 14 April 2012.

Changes from 2011

  • Norway fell from 8th to 11th in the UEFA coefficient rankings for the 2013–14 European season. Thus the runners-up is no longer qualified to the Champions League.
  • The eleventh placed teams will play a promotion/relegation play-off against the second league's second-place finisher. A play-off was last played in 2006.

Teams

TeamLocationArenaManager
Amazon GrimstadGrimstadLevermyr StadionMargunn Haugenes
Arna-BjørnarBergenArna StadionMorten Kalvenes
FartVangFartbana
KattemTrondheimÅsheim kunstgressSteinar Mikkelsen
KolbotnKolbotnSofiemyr StadionKjell S. H. Wold
KleppKleppeKlepp StadionKnut Eriksen
LillestrømLillestrømLSK-HallenRanveig Karlsen
RøaOsloRøa KunstgressGeir Nordby
SandvikenBergenStemmemyren idrettsplassArne Møller
StabækBærumNadderud StadionØyvind Eide
Trondheims-ØrnTrondheimDnB NOR ArenaThomas Dahle
VålerengaOsloVallhall ArenaAnita Waage

League table

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Relegation play-offs

Kattem had to face second league's second-place finisher Medkila in a two-legged play-off match for the right to play in the 2013 Toppserien.[3] Kattem won the playoff, but subsequently withdrew their team from the league. Medkila were promoted to take their place in Toppserien.[4]

Top goalscorers

RankPlayerClubGoals[5]
1Isabell HerlovsenLSK Kvinner25
2Ada HegerbergStabæk22
3Cecilie PedersenLSK Kvinner19
4Cathrine DyngvoldKlepp15
5Lene MykjålandRøa13
6Guro ReitenKattem11
Elise ThorsnesRøa
Amalie EikelandArna-Bjørnar
9Melissa BjånesøySandviken10
Gry ImsKlepp

References

  1. ^ "Tabell Toppserien 2012" (in Norwegian). nifs.no. A-pressen. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  2. ^ "1.252 tilskuere såg damelagets kamper i år" (in Norwegian). Avaldsnes IL. 21 November 2012. Archived from the original on 3 July 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  3. ^ "Play-offs 1/2". soccerway.com. Archived from the original on 4 January 2013. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
  4. ^ Karlsen, Thomas (6 February 2013). "Medkila til Toppserien" (in Norwegian). Fotballmagasinet.no. Archived from the original on 3 March 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  5. ^ "Toppscorer 2012" (in Norwegian). NRK Sport. Retrieved 2012-04-14.