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Season
  
2010

Champions League
  
Rosenborg

Champion
  
Rosenborg BK

Goals scored
  
731

Champions
  
Rosenborg 22nd title

Dates
  
13 Mar 2010 – 7 Nov 2010

Location
  
Norway

Matches played
  
240

2010 Tippeligaen

Europa League
  
Vålerenga Tromsø IL Strømsgodset (Cup Winner)

Top goalscorer
  
Baye Djiby Fall (16 goals)

Biggest home win
  
Vålerenga 8-1 Start (2 August 2010)

Relegated
  
Hønefoss BK, Kongsvinger IL Toppfotball, Sandefjord Fotball

Similar
  
2013 Tippeligaen, 2014 Tippeligaen, 2015 Tippeligaen

The 2010 Tippeligaen season is the sixty-sixth season of top-tier football in Norway. The competition began on 14 March and ended on 7 November. Rosenborg was the defending champions, having secured their twenty-first league championship in 2009.

Contents

Season summary

  • June 6: Lillestrøm scored three goals in four minutes and 24 seconds, two of them in injury time, to go from 3-0 down to 3-3 away at Molde.
  • September 26: Sandefjord lost 5-0 away to Odd Grenland. This was their 23rd consecutive top flight match without winning, breaking a record of 22 set by Os in 1975. The streak would continue for four matches, ending at 27 before Sandefjord won in their 28th attempt on the last day of the season, beating Hønefoss 6-1 at home.
  • October 31: Rosenborg played Kongsvinger to a 0-0 draw away, making 2010 the second consecutive season without away losses for Rosenborg.

    • Teams

    Haugesund and Hønefoss were promoted directly from the First Division at the end of the 2009 season. Kongsvinger defeated Sarpsborg by 5–4 on aggregate in the final matches of the play-off round between the 3rd-, 4th- and 5th-placed team in the First Division and the 14th-placed team in the Tippeligaen, giving them the sixteenth and final spot.

    Team summaries

    1Stabæk also played three home matches in May at Ullevaal Stadion because Telenor Arena was being used to host the Eurovision Song Contest 2010.

    League table

    Source: NRK Sport
    Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
    1Norway was among the best three associations in the UEFA Fair Play ranking and thus received an additional spot in the first qualifying round of the Europa League.
    2Strømsgodset is qualified for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League as winners of the 2010 Norwegian Football Cup.
    (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

    Source: rsssf.no

    Results

    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.

    Relegation and promotion to 2011 season

    At the end of the season, Sandefjord and Kongsvinger will be relegated directly to Adeccoligaen, and will be replaced by Sogndal and Sarpsborg who will be directly promoted.

    Four teams will enter a play-off for the last Tippeligaen spot in the 2011 season. These will be:

  • A) Hønefoss (by virtue of being the 14th placed team in the Tippeligaen)
  • B) Fredrikstad (by virtue of being the third placed team in the Adeccoligaen)
  • C) Løv-Ham (by virtue of being the fourth placed team in the Adeccoligaen)
  • D) Ranheim (by virtue of being the fifth placed team in the Adeccoligaen)

    • References

    2010 Tippeligaen Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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