2022 Eliteserien

Eliteserien

Season	2022
Dates	2 April – 13 November
Champions	Molde 5th title
Relegated	Kristiansund Jerv
Champions League	Molde
Europa Conference League	Bodø/Glimt Rosenborg
Matches played	240
Goals scored	781 (3.25 per match)
Top goalscorer	Amahl Pellegrino (25 goals)
Biggest home win	Bodø/Glimt 7–0 Odd (6 August 2022)
Biggest away win	Vålerenga 0–6 Bodø/Glimt (16 October 2022)
Highest scoring	Bodø/Glimt 5–4 Viking (6 November 2022)
Longest winning run	17 matches Molde [1]
Longest unbeaten run	25 matches Molde [1]
Longest winless run	15 matches Sandefjord [1]
Longest losing run	8 matches Kristiansund Sarpsborg 08 [1]
Highest attendance	21,275 Rosenborg 3–2 Bodø/Glimt (30 October 2022) [2]
Lowest attendance	2,005 Tromsø 2–5 Sarpsborg 08 (24 April 2022) [2]
Average attendance	5,713 [2]
← 2021 2023 →

The 2022 Eliteserien was the 78th season of top-tier football in Norway. This was the sixth season of Eliteserien after rebranding from Tippeligaen. Molde were crowned the champions at the end of the season, winning their 5th Norwegian league title.

The season started on 2 April 2022 and ended on 13 November 2022, not including play-off matches. ^{[3] [4]}

Bodø/Glimt were the defending champions, having won the previous season. HamKam, Aalesund and Jerv joined as the promoted clubs from the 2021 Norwegian First Division. They replaced Brann, Stabæk and Mjøndalen who were relegated to the First Division.

Teams

Sixteen teams competed in the league in this season – the top thirteen teams from the previous season, and three teams promoted from the First Division. The promoted teams were HamKam (returning to the top flight after a thirteen season absence), Aalesund (returning to the top flight after a one season absence) and Jerv (first season in the top flight). They replaced Brann, Stabæk and Mjøndalen, ending their top flight spells of six, eight and three years respectively.

Stadiums and locations

Aalesund

Bodø/Glimt

HamKam

Haugesund

Jerv

Kristiansund

Molde

Odd

Rosenborg

Sandefjord

Sarpsborg 08

Strømsgodset

Tromsø

Viking

Oslo

Oslo region teams:
Lillestrøm
Vålerenga

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Locations of the teams in 2022 Eliteserien

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.

Team	Ap.	Location	County	Arena	Turf	Capacity
Aalesund	18	Ålesund	Møre og Romsdal	Color Line Stadion	Artificial	10,778
Bodø/Glimt	27	Bodø	Nordland	Aspmyra Stadion	Artificial	8,300
HamKam	23	Hamar	Innlandet	Briskeby	Artificial	7,800
Haugesund	16	Haugesund	Rogaland	Haugesund Sparebank Arena	Natural	8,754
Jerv	1	Grimstad	Agder	Levermyr Stadion	Natural	3,300
Kristiansund	6	Kristiansund	Møre og Romsdal	Kristiansund Stadion	Artificial	4,444
Lillestrøm	58	Lillestrøm	Viken	Åråsen Stadion	Natural	11,500
Molde	46	Molde	Møre og Romsdal	Aker Stadion	Artificial	11,249
Odd	41	Skien	Vestfold og Telemark	Skagerak Arena	Artificial	11,767
Rosenborg	59	Trondheim	Trøndelag	Lerkendal Stadion	Natural	21,421
Sandefjord	10	Sandefjord	Vestfold og Telemark	Release Arena	Natural	6,582
Sarpsborg 08	11	Sarpsborg	Viken	Sarpsborg Stadion	Artificial	8,022
Strømsgodset	35	Drammen	Viken	Marienlyst Stadion	Artificial	8,935
Tromsø	34	Tromsø	Troms og Finnmark	Alfheim Stadion	Artificial	6,687
Viking	72	Stavanger	Rogaland	SR-Bank Arena	Artificial	15,900
Vålerenga	62	Oslo	Oslo	Intility Arena	Artificial	16,555

Personnel and kits

Team	President	Manager(s)	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Aalesund	Jan Petter Hagen	Lars Arne Nilsen	David Fällman	Umbro	Sparebanken Møre
Bodø/Glimt	Inge Henning Andersen	Kjetil Knutsen	Ulrik Saltnes	Diadora	Sparebanken Nord-Norge
HamKam	Truls Nordby Johansen	Jakob Michelsen	Aleksander Melgalvis [5]	Puma	Eidsiva Energi
Haugesund	Leif Helge Kaldheim	Jostein Grindhaug	Kevin Martin Krygård	Macron	Haugaland Kraft
Jerv	Per Gunnar Topland	Arne Sandstø	Mathias Wichmann	Umbro	J. J. Ugland
Kristiansund	Vidar Solli	Christian Michelsen	Dan Peter Ulvestad	Macron	SpareBank 1 Nordvest
Lillestrøm	Morten Kokkim	Geir Bakke	Gjermund Åsen [6]	Puma	DNB
Molde	Odd Ivar Moen	Erling Moe	Magnus Wolff Eikrem	Adidas [7]	Sparebanken Møre
Odd	Trond Haukvik	Pål Arne Johansen	Steffen Hagen	Hummel	SpareBank 1 Telemark
Rosenborg	Cecilie Gotaas Johnsen	Kjetil Rekdal	Markus Henriksen	Adidas	SpareBank 1 SMN
Sandefjord	Gunnar Bjønness	Hans Erik Ødegaard Andreas Tegström	Harmeet Singh	Macron	Jotun
Sarpsborg 08	Hans Petter Arnesen	Stefan Billborn	Joachim Thomassen	Select	Borregaard
Strømsgodset	Ivar Strømsjordet	Bjørn Petter Ingebretsen Håkon Wibe-Lund	Gustav Valsvik	Puma	DNB
Tromsø	Helge Kræmer	Gaute Helstrup	Ruben Yttergård Jenssen	Select	Sparebanken Nord-Norge
Vålerenga	Thomas Baardseng	Dag-Eilev Fagermo	Jonatan Tollås	Adidas	DNB
Viking	Stig H. Christiansen	Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim Morten Jensen	Veton Berisha	Diadora	Lyse

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Table
Rosenborg	Åge Hareide	Contract expired	31 December 2021 [8]	Pre-season	Kjetil Rekdal	1 January 2022 [9]	Pre-season
Sarpsborg 08	Lars Bohinen		31 December 2021 [10]		Stefan Billborn	7 January 2022 [11]
HamKam	Kjetil Rekdal	Signed by Rosenborg	31 December 2021 [9]		Jakob Michelsen	9 January 2022 [12]
Odd	Jan Frode Nornes	Sacked	8 January 2022 [13]		Pål Arne Johansen	24 January 2022 [14]

Transfers

Winter

Main article: List of Norwegian football transfers winter 2021–22

Summer

Main article: List of Norwegian football transfers summer 2022

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Molde (C)	30	25	3	2	71	25	+46	78	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	Bodø/Glimt	30	18	6	6	86	41	+45	60	Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round
3	Rosenborg	30	16	8	6	69	44	+25	56
4	Lillestrøm	30	16	5	9	49	34	+15	53
5	Odd	30	13	6	11	43	45	−2	45
6	Vålerenga	30	13	5	12	52	49	+3	44
7	Tromsø	30	10	13	7	46	49	−3	43
8	Sarpsborg 08	30	12	5	13	57	54	+3	41
9	Aalesund	30	10	9	11	32	45	−13	39
10	Haugesund	30	10	8	12	42	46	−4	38
11	Viking	30	9	8	13	48	54	−6	35
12	Strømsgodset	30	9	6	15	44	55	−11	33
13	HamKam	30	6	13	11	33	43	−10	31
14	Sandefjord (O)	30	6	6	18	42	68	−26	24	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
15	Kristiansund (R)	30	5	8	17	37	60	−23	23	Relegation to First Division
16	Jerv (R)	30	5	5	20	30	69	−39	20

Source: Football Association of Norway (in Norwegian)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored. ^[15]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Molde	3	1	3	5	7	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Bodø/Glimt	7	4	1	3	5	6	4	5	8	5	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	2	3	2	2	3	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Rosenborg	7	5	7	9	12	7	8	7	6	9	5	7	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Lillestrøm	7	3	2	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	2	3	3	2	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Odd	2	7	4	8	11	15	10	12	10	11	11	9	9	10	9	9	11	12	9	9	9	8	7	6	6	8	7	6	6	5
Vålerenga	11	9	14	10	4	5	9	9	11	12	14	14	13	13	10	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6
Tromsø	16	11	11	13	14	14	12	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	13	11	9	8	8	8	8	7	9	9	7	6	6	7	7	7
Sarpsborg 08	11	8	9	3	3	3	7	8	7	4	7	3	8	9	11	12	12	14	14	14	13	11	11	11	9	7	8	8	8	8
Aalesund	3	10	10	6	6	9	6	4	5	6	9	5	6	6	7	7	10	11	11	12	11	12	12	12	11	12	9	10	9	9
Haugesund	15	15	16	16	15	12	14	14	14	14	12	13	14	14	14	14	13	9	10	11	10	10	10	10	12	10	12	9	10	10
Viking	3	2	5	2	1	1	2	2	3	3	6	8	5	4	5	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	7	8	9	10	11	11	11
Strømsgodset	11	16	13	14	13	8	5	6	4	7	4	6	7	8	6	8	7	7	7	7	7	9	8	8	10	11	11	12	12	12
HamKam	7	13	8	12	9	10	11	10	12	10	10	10	10	11	12	13	14	13	13	10	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Sandefjord	1	6	12	7	10	13	15	11	9	8	8	11	11	7	8	10	8	10	12	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Kristiansund	11	14	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
Jerv	3	12	6	11	8	11	13	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

	Leader / 2023–24 UEFA Champions League first qualifying round
	2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League second qualifying round
	Relegation play-offs
	Relegation to 2023 1. divisjon

Source: nifs.no

Results

Home \ Away	AAL	BOD	HAM	HAU	JER	KRI	LIL	MOL	ODD	ROS	SAN	SRP	STR	TRO	VIK	VÅL
Aalesund	—	1–2	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–3	1–0	2–2	2–1	2–2
Bodø/Glimt	2–0	—	2–2	1–1	5–0	5–0	1–1	1–4	7–0	2–2	4–1	4–1	2–2	1–1	5–4	5–1
HamKam	0–0	0–2	—	1–0	2–1	0–1	2–2	0–0	1–2	1–1	3–0	3–2	1–1	1–2	1–2	1–1
Haugesund	2–2	1–4	1–1	—	3–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	2–2	2–1	1–3	3–1	0–1	2–1	4–2	1–1
Jerv	0–1	0–2	1–2	1–0	—	1–0	1–0	2–4	0–1	2–4	1–2	0–5	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–5
Kristiansund	4–0	0–2	2–2	0–1	1–1	—	1–3	2–3	2–2	4–4	3–1	2–3	0–3	1–1	2–1	3–2
Lillestrøm	2–0	1–4	3–1	1–0	4–0	1–1	—	0–1	0–2	3–1	3–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–0
Molde	3–0	3–1	5–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	—	3–0	2–1	2–1	4–1	3–0	5–1	3–4	1–0
Odd	2–3	3–2	2–0	0–4	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–2	—	2–3	0–1	1–0	5–1	2–0	2–1	2–1
Rosenborg	2–1	3–2	2–1	3–3	3–2	3–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	—	3–0	2–3	3–0	3–0	4–1	3–0
Sandefjord	2–2	1–2	1–2	2–2	1–2	2–0	1–4	2–3	1–3	2–5	—	1–1	2–2	2–2	2–2	1–3
Sarpsborg 08	1–2	1–4	2–1	4–0	4–3	2–2	0–2	1–2	1–0	1–1	4–3	—	5–1	1–1	0–1	0–1
Strømsgodset	1–2	2–4	1–1	1–2	6–0	4–1	3–0	1–3	0–0	3–0	0–5	3–1	—	1–2	3–2	3–2
Tromsø	2–2	3–2	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	2–2	0–1	3–2	4–3	3–0	2–5	1–0	—	1–1	1–0
Viking	1–0	2–0	1–1	5–1	3–0	2–1	0–3	1–4	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–0	2–2	—	1–2
Vålerenga	4–0	0–6	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–0	3–1	1–2	0–1	0–4	4–0	3–3	4–0	1–0	4–2	—

Source: Football Association of Norway (in Norwegian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

Sandefjord, the 14th-placed team in Eliteserien defeated Kongsvinger, the winners of the First Division promotion play-offs 5-2 (aggregate) over two legs to qualify to remain in the Eliteserien in the following season. ^[16]

16 November 2022

18:00 CET

Sandefjord	4–0	Kongsvinger
Ofkir 3' Winbo 42' Tveter 54' Kurtovic 78'	Report

Sandefjord Arena , Sandefjord

Attendance: 5,020

Referee: Kai Erik Steen

19 November 2022

16:00 CET

Kongsvinger	2–1	Sandefjord
Langrekken 49' Holter 79'	Report	Nyenetue 31'

Gjemselund Stadion , Kongsvinger

Attendance: 1,882

Referee: Tore Hansen

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals [17]
1	Amahl Pellegrino	Bodø/Glimt	25
2	Hugo Vetlesen	Bodø/Glimt	16
3	David Datro Fofana	Molde	15
	Tobias Heintz	Sarpsborg 08
	Casper Tengstedt	Rosenborg
6	Ole Sæter	Rosenborg	14
7	Eric Kitolano	Tromsø	13
8	Runar Espejord	Bodø/Glimt	12
	Mohamed Ofkir	Sandefjord
10	Ola Brynhildsen	Molde	11
	Johan Hove	Strømsgodset

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Alexander Ruud Tveter	Sandefjord	Haugesund	3–1 (A)	3 April 2022
Mohamed Ofkir	Sandefjord	Strømsgodset	5–0 (A)	23 April 2022
Veton Berisha	Viking	Haugesund	5–1 (H)	30 April 2022
Ole Sæter	Rosenborg	Kristiansund	3–1 (H)	25 June 2022
Sam Rogers	Rosenborg	Jerv	3–2 (H)	10 July 2022
Amahl Pellegrino	Bodø/Glimt	Jerv	5–0 (H)	24 July 2022
Hugo Vegard Vetlesen	Bodø/Glimt	Odd	7–0 (H)	6 August 2022
Casper Tengstedt	Rosenborg	Sandefjord	5–2 (A)	12 August 2022
Tobias Heintz	Sarpsborg 08	Jerv	4–3 (H)	18 September 2022

Notes

⁴ Player scored 4 goals
(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets [18]
1	Jacob Karlstrøm	Molde	12
2	Mads Hedenstad Christiansen	Lillestrøm	9
3	André Hansen	Rosenborg	8
4	Sten Grytebust	Aalesund	7
	Nikita Khaykin	Bodø/Glimt
	Viljar Myhra	Strømsgodset
	Leopold Wahlstedt	Odd
8	Patrik Gunnarsson	Viking	6
	Magnus Sjøeng	Vålerenga
10	Nicholas Hagen	HamKam	4
	Øystein Øvretveit	Jerv

Discipline

Player

• Most yellow cards: 9 ^[17]
  • Dario Canadija (Aalesund)

• Most red cards: 2 ^[17]
  • Odin Bjørtuft (Odd)
  • Anton Skipper (Sarpsborg 08)

Club

• Most yellow cards: 59 ^[19]
  • Viking

• Most red cards: 5 ^[20]
  • Sarpsborg 08

Awards

Annual awards

Award [21]	Winner	Club
Player of the Year	Hugo Vetlesen	Bodø/Glimt
Young Player of the Year	Sivert Mannsverk	Molde
Manager of the Year	Erling Moe	Molde

League attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Rosenborg	196,377	21,275	9,764	13,092	+99.1%†
2	Viking	148,648	15,500	7,136	9,910	+64.0%†
3	Vålerenga	130,044	16,555	5,520	8,670	+100.8%†
4	Lillestrøm	101,148	10,527	4,567	6,743	+88.4%†
5	Molde	95,823	10,755	5,045	6,388	+108.1%†
6	Bodø/Glimt	88,953	7,837	4,809	5,930	+153.9%†
7	Aalesund	82,184	10,778	4,194	5,479	+99.6%1
8	Strømsgodset	73,065	5,887	3,897	4,871	+70.6%†
9	Sarpsborg 08	71,707	5,831	4,094	4,780	+72.1%†
10	Odd	68,035	7,164	3,380	4,536	+50.9%†
11	HamKam	67,428	6,904	3,037	4,495	+108.7%1
12	Haugesund	58,533	5,608	3,187	3,902	+49.3%†
13	Kristiansund	56,909	4,444	3,410	3,794	+70.3%†
14	Sandefjord	49,995	6,182	2,497	3,333	+87.8%†
15	Tromsø	45,071	6,691	2,005	3,005	+70.0%1
16	Jerv	37,315	3,002	2,090	2,488	+176.4%1
	League total	1,371,235	21,275	2,005	5,713	+76.3%†

Updated to games played on 13 November 2022
Source: nifs.no
Notes:
1: Team played last season in 1. divisjon.

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