Season 2016 Champions League Rosenborg Dates 11 Mar 2016 – 6 Nov 2016 Goals scored 653 Relegated FK Bodø/Glimt, IK Start | Champions Rosenborg Europa League Brann
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Haugesund Champion Rosenborg BK Matches played 240 | |
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Top goalscorer Christian Gytkjær
(19 goals) Biggest home win Aalesund 6–0 Tromsø
(24 April 2016)
Brann 6–0 Aalesund
(22 July 2016)
Rosenborg 6–0 Haugesund
(23 July 2016) Similar 2015 Tippeligaen, 2014 Tippeligaen, 2013 Tippeligaen | ||
The 2016 Tippeligaen was the 72nd season of top-tier football in Norway. The competition began on 11 March 2016. Due to the 2016 UEFA European Championship, there was a break between the rounds played on 29 May and 3 July. The decisive matches of the home-and-away season were played on 6 November 2016. A promotion/relegation play-off between the third-from-bottom team of the Tippeligaen and the winner of the promotion play-offs of the 2016 Norwegian First Division was contested on 30 November and 4 December 2016.
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The league was contested by 16 teams: the 13 best teams of the 2015 season; the two teams who won direct promotion from the 2015 Norwegian First Division, Sogndal and Brann; and Start, who won the promotion/relegation play-off finals against Jerv.
Positions by round
Source: nifs.no
Results
Source: Nifs.no (Norwegian)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Relegation play-offs
The 14th-placed team, Stabæk, took part in a two-legged play-off against Jerv, the winners of the 2016 First Division promotion play-offs, to decide who would play in the 2017 Eliteserien.
Stabæk won 2–1 on aggregate and retained their place in the 2017 Eliteserien; Jerv remained in the First Division.