Season 2016 Dates 11 Mar 2016 – 6 Nov 2016 Goals scored 653 | Europa League BrannOddHaugesund Champion Rosenborg BK Matches played 240 | |
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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.