The 2012 Toppserien was the twenty-sixth season of top-tier women's football in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

since its establishment in 1987. A total of 12 teams contested the league, ten returning from the 2011 season and the two teams promoted from the First Division, Vålerenga and

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. The season started on 14 April 2012.

Changes from 2011

* Norway fell from 8th to 11th in the

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rankings for the 2013–14 European season. Thus the runners-up is no longer qualified to the Champions League. * The eleventh placed teams will play a promotion/relegation play-off against the second league's second-place finisher. A play-off was last played in 2006.

Teams

League table

Relegation play-offs

Kattem had to face second league's second-place finisher Medkila in a two-legged play-off match for the right to play in the

2013 Toppserien The 2013 Toppserien is the twenty-seventh season of top-tier women's football in Norway since its establishment in 1987. A total of 12 teams are contesting the league, ten returning from the 2012 season and the two teams promoted from the First ...

. Kattem won the playoff, but subsequently withdrew their team from the league. Medkila were promoted to take their place in Toppserien.

Top goalscorers

References

External links

Season
on soccerway.com {{2012 in Norwegian football Toppserien seasons Top level Norwegian women's football league seasons