Season 2005 Champions League Vålerenga Intertoto Cup Lillestrøm Champion Vålerenga Fotball Goals scored 515 | Champions Vålerenga
5th title UEFA Cup Molde
Start
Lyn Dates 10 Apr 2005 – 29 Oct 2005 Location Norway Matches played 182 | |
Top goalscorer Ole Martin Årst (16 goals) Relegated Aalesunds FK, FK Bodø/Glimt People also search for 2004 Tippeligaen, 2006 Tippeligaen | ||
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.
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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.
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¹Molde qualified as the winner of 2005 Norwegian Football Cup.