2009 Tippeligaen

The Tippeligaen 2009 was the 65th season of Norway's highest football league, which was held for the 19th time, according to a sponsor agreement under the name Tippeligaen. Between 14 March and 1 November 2009, the 16 first division team played in a single round-trip round against each other so that stood firm after 30 matchdays of Champions, the other European Cup participants and the participants in the relegation matches and relegated to the Adecco Ligaen. On November 12 of that year all sporting decisions were taken after the second leg of their relegation finals.

Rosenborg BK won at the end of the season 21 champion title in club history. The club Molde FK and directed last year's champion Stabæk IF on the other European Cup places. While FK Bodø / Glimt and Lyn Oslo had to dismount directly, Fredrikstad FK missed as runner-up last year in the relegation round of the league.

Course of the season

Last year's champion Stabæk IF opened with a 1-1 draw in the domestic Telenor Arena against Lillestrøm SK on March 14, 2009, the season in which to let Arild Sundgot by the away team celebrate the first season scorer. After the supervised by coach Erik Hamrén team Rosenborg BK in common with Viking Stavanger had earned the championship lead on the opening day, it came in the following game with Molde FK days to a duel for the top position. The two teams had played out until eight games five points ahead of the tied placed behind IK Start and Sandefjord Fotball before after a 2-2 draw with goals from Vegard Forren and an own goal by Alexander Tettey for Molde FK and Trond Olsen and Steffen Iversen, who equalized in stoppage time, could push up the competition closer. As a result, the team Rosenborg BK to Mikael Dorsin, Vadim Demidov, Trond Olsen, Mikael Lustig and Anthony Annan sat in particular due to the gates of Rade Prica and Steffen Iversen from the chasing pack and led after the first half of the season games without defeat with seven points ahead of Molde FK in the league.

In the relegation battle Lyn Oslo had parallel established at end of table. After the team had won the third round with a 2-0 away win at FK Bodø / Glimt a hitherto only win of the season, they slipped then into the table and had to half of the season on 15 Matchday due eight draw with four points behind the 13th place in the standings kept in touch with the middle table space. Before FK Bodø / Glimt occupied points with lying on the relegation place Strømsgodset IF Lillestrøm SK and Tromsø IL, the last non- relegation places.

The race for the championship was decided early, as Molde FK was able to reduce the distance to as a table runner leaders Rosenborg BK to a maximum of four points and 26 Matchday 17 points difference a strike by calculation was no longer possible. 27 Matchday Only on there was surprising to report, IK Start added, despite a temporary 1:2 residue with goals from Bernt Hulsker and Cristian Bolaños in the last minutes of the game with a 3-2 away win Rosenborg BK the only defeat of the season to. The pursuers were able to secure early participation in the Europa League Round of 29. But the race for places in the UEFA Europa League and the relegation places was soon decided. Two games before the end of the season Molde FK had played out seven points ahead of fourth place, the penultimate round also secured Stabæk IF early participation in the European Cup. At the bottom, Lyn Oslo had succeeded another season success only against IK Start, so that the club had lost all computational possibilities 27 on game day. Also, the front -placed FK Bodø / Glimt who had slipped on the 26th Round of the relegation zone, the building up in the following match days residue could not limit and stood before the last game with four points behind relegated as Fredrikstad FK as a participant on the fixed relegation.

After Fredrikstad FK had left with a 5-0 away win at bottom club Lyn Oslo of the regular season, missed the club against Sarpsborg 08, the fifth- the second division season with a 0-2 defeat in the semifinals of the Relegation Round two goals from Martin Wiig relegation. After the second division third Kongsvinger IL had beaten the fourth- Sogndal Fotball in the other semifinal, the two met in teams return match against each other in the relegation final. After the first leg with a 3-2 victory, was able to cut with the initial editing Frejd in stoppage time, before a home crowd for Sarpsborg 08 went out, Kongsvinger IL succeeded by a 3-1 win in the return match because of one more shot at the gate of the rise in the Tippeligaen to the following season.

In addition to the qualifications for the European Cup over the league, the Norwegian National Cup winner also qualified for the UEFA Europa League. For the first time in the club's history took Aalesunds FK the title and moved so as table Thirteenth in the European Cup a.

Final Table

Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = Draws, L = Defeats, Td = Goal Difference

(M) = Champion of last year (N) = Up

Play off

Semifinal

This Fredrikstad FK is relegated to the Adecco Ligaen.

Final

This is Kongsvinger ascended.

Results

Stadiums / spectators

A total of 2,150,658 spectators attended the games in the season. Converted to 240 games, this corresponds to an average of 8,961 spectators per game.

Miscellaneous

  • Scorer in the league was the Swede Rade Prica of Rosenborg BK. He scored 17 goals.
  • A total of 697 goals in 240 games fell, corresponding to an average of 2.90 goals per game.
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