2025 Norwegian First Division (women)

Norwegian First Division

Season	2025
Dates	22 March – 18 October
Matches played	132
Goals scored	299 (2.27 per match)
← 2024 2026 →

The 2025 Norwegian First Division is an ongoing Norwegian second-tier women's football league season. The season started on 22 March 2025 and is set to end on 18 October 2025, not including play-off matches. ^[1]

Teams

AaFK Fortuna

HamKam

Haugesund

KIL/Hemne

Molde

Odd

Start

Viking

Bergen

Bergen teams:
Arna-Bjørnar
Fyllingsdalen
Åsane

Tromsø

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Locations of teams in the 2025 Norwegian First Division

Arna-Bjørnar

Fyllingsdalen

Åsane

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Locations of teams in the 2025 Norwegian First Division in Vestland

In the 2024 Norwegian First Division, Hønefoss and Bodø/Glimt were promoted to the 2025 Toppserien, while Øvrevoll Hosle were relegated to the 2025 Norwegian Second Division.

Åsane and Arna-Bjørnar were relegated from the 2024 Toppserien, while Start, HamKam and Molde were promoted from the 2024 Norwegian Second Division, expanding the First Division to 12 teams.

TIL 2020 and Avaldsnes both completed mergers with Eliteserien clubs ahead of the season, becoming the women's teams of Tromsø and Haugesund respectively. ^{[2] [3]}

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	County	Arena	Turf	Capacity
AaFK Fortuna	Ålesund	Møre og Romsdal	Color Line Stadion	Artificial	10,778
Arna-Bjørnar	Bergen	Vestland	Arna Idrettspark	Artificial	1,500
Fyllingsdalen	Bergen	Vestland	Varden Amfi	Artificial	3,500
HamKam	Hamar	Innlandet	Briskeby	Artificial	7,800
Haugesund	Haugesund	Rogaland	Haugesund Sparebank Arena	Natural	8,754
KIL/Hemne	Heim	Trøndelag	Trøndelag Sparebank Arena	Artificial	500
Molde	Molde	Møre og Romsdal	Aker Stadion	Artificial	11,249
Odd	Skien	Telemark	Skagerak Arena	Artificial	11,767
Start	Kristiansand	Agder	Sparebanken Sør Arena	Artificial	14,448
Tromsø	Tromsø	Troms	Romssa Arena	Artificial	6,687
Viking	Stavanger	Rogaland	Lyse Arena	Artificial	15,900
Åsane	Bergen	Vestland	Åsane Arena	Artificial	3,300

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager(s)	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
AaFK Fortuna	Karl Oskar Fjørtoft	Umbro	Sparebanken Møre
Arna-Bjørnar	Erik Mjelde	Nike	Sparebanken Vest
Fyllingsdalen	Børge Haugsdal	Umbro	Sparebanken Vest
HamKam	Nathan Flight	Puma	SpareBank 1 Østlandet
Haugesund	Per Øyvind Mortveit Ole-Petter Pedersen Bremstein	Umbro	Sparebanken Vest
KIL/Hemne	Erik Svendsen	Umbro	Trøndelag Sparebank
Molde	Kent Rudning	Adidas	Sparebanken Møre
Odd	Erik Waage	Hummel	Skagerak Energi
Start	Isabella Hayes Sunde	Macron	Sparebanken Sør
Tromsø	Mikael Raimo Johnsen	Select	SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge
Viking	Magnus Meling	Diadora	Lyse
Åsane	Miki Lladó	Craft	Tertnes Holding

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Haugesund	16	11	3	2	38	17	+21	36	Promotion to Toppserien
2	AaFK Fortuna	16	9	6	1	35	14	+21	33
3	Molde	16	9	4	3	39	24	+15	31
4	Åsane	16	8	5	3	28	12	+16	29	Qualification for the promotion play-offs
5	Arna-Bjørnar	16	7	4	5	27	26	+1	25
6	Odd	16	6	3	7	25	27	−2	21
7	Fyllingsdalen	16	6	3	7	20	26	−6	21
8	Viking	16	5	3	8	23	32	−9	18
9	Start	16	4	5	7	16	22	−6	17
10	Tromsø	16	3	5	8	24	36	−12	14
11	HamKam	16	3	1	12	11	28	−17	10	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
12	KIL/Hemne	16	2	4	10	13	35	−22	10	Relegation to Second Division

Updated to match(es) played on 31 August 2025. Source: Norwegian Football Federation (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.

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
Haugesund	8	7	8	4	4	5	7	4	5	4	4	3	2	2	2	1
AaFK Fortuna	4	4	2	1	2	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
Molde	2	1	1	5	3	1	1	1	1	2	3	2	3	3	3	3
Åsane	4	4	6	3	6	4	2	2	3	3	2	4	4	4	4	4
Arna-Bjørnar	11	8	4	2	1	2	5	6	4	6	5	5	5	5	5	5
Odd	3	2	3	6	5	6	4	5	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	6
Fyllingsdalen	6	3	5	8	9	7	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	7
Viking	9	10	9	9	8	10	10	9	8	8	10	8	8	9	7	8
Start	1	6	7	7	7	8	8	8	10	9	8	9	9	8	9	9
Tromsø	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	9	10	10	10	10	10
HamKam	6	9	10	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11
KIL/Hemne	9	11	11	10	10	9	9	10	9	10	11	11	11	11	12	12

	Promotion to 2026 Toppserien
	Promotion play-offs
	Relegation play-offs
	Relegation to 2026 Second Division

Source: nifs.no

Results

Home \ Away	AAF	ARN	FYL	HAM	HAU	KIL	MOL	ODD	STA	TRO	VIK	ÅSA
AaFK Fortuna			4–0		1–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	4–0	4–1	1–0
Arna-Bjørnar	1–1		1–0	2–0		4–0		4–2		5–5	1–0	0–3
Fyllingsdalen	1–2	2–0		3–2	1–2				1–0		3–1	0–0
HamKam	0–2		1–1			3–0	1–3	0–2	1–0		0–2	0–3
Haugesund	2–1	4–2		0–2		2–0	3–1			3–1	2–1	2–0
KIL/Hemne		1–2	4–0	2–1	1–5		1–1		0–0	0–0		0–1
Molde	0–3	3–1	2–2	1–0		4–1			4–1	4–2		3–1
Odd	2–5		1–3	2–0	2–1	4–1	1–1			1–1	1–2	0–0
Start	2–2	0–1		1–0	1–1	2–0	3–1	0–1		4–1
Tromsø		2–0		4–0	1–4		1–3	3–1	1–1		1–1
Viking		1–1	3–1		0–4	5–1	1–6	2–4	1–1			2–1
Åsane	0–0	2–2	3–0		2–2			2–0	3–0	3–0	4–1

Updated to match(es) played on 31 August 2025. Source: (in Norwegian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

Promotion play-offs

The 4th-placed team will face the 9th-placed team in the Toppserien over two legs in the Eliteserien play-offs for a spot in the top-flight next season. ^[4]

Relegation play-offs

The 11th-placed team will take part in a two-legged play-off against the winners of the Second Division play-offs, to decide who will play in the First Division next season.

Top scorers

As of 31 August 2025

Rank	Player	Club	Goals [5]
1	Kristina Svandal	Haugesund	14
2	Katarina Dybvik Sunde	AaFK Fortuna	12
3	Jeon Yu-gyeong	Molde	9
	Chiara Messerli	Molde
5	Marie Myhrvold Seim	Åsane	8
	Maria Brochmann	Åsane

References

1. "Slik spilles 1. divisjon kvinner 2025" (in Norwegian). NFF. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
2. "Historisk dag på Romssa Arena: Tromsø IL overtar styring av TIL 2020". NRK (in Norwegian). 18 September 2024. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
3. "NFF har gitt grønt lys – Avaldsnes blir til Haugesund". NRK (in Norwegian). 19 September 2024. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
4. "Slik er innstillingen på ny seriestruktur i kvinnefotballen" (in Norwegian). Sportskollektivet. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
5. "Toppscorerliste 1. divisjon kvinner 2025". NIFS (in Norwegian). NTB . Retrieved 3 September 2025.