2025 Norwegian First DivisionAssociation football season in NorwayFootball league seasonThe 2025 Norwegian First Division (referred to as OBOS-ligaen for sponsorship reasons) is a Norwegian second-tier football league season. The season started on 31 March 2025 and ended on 8 November 2025, not including play-off matches.
EliteserienFirst division football league in NorwayFootball leagueEliteserien (Norwegian pronunciation:) is a professional association football league in Norway and the highest level of the Norwegian football league system. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Norwegian First Division. Seasons run from March to November with each team playing 30 matches (playing each other home and away). Most games are played on Sunday evenings.
Norwegian football league systemThe Norwegian football league system, or pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in Norway. 2017 system in men's footballAs of 2017, the current national league system administered by the NFF is organised as 1–1–2–6, where Eliteserien is the highest level and the First Division the second tier, followed by two groups in the third tier (Second Division) and 6 regional groups in the fourth tier (Third Division).1961–62 LandsdelsserienThe 1961–62 Landsdelsserien was a Norwegian second-tier football league season, the last named Landsdelsserien. The league was contested by 55 teams, divided into a total of seven groups from four districts; Østland/Søndre, Østland/Nordre, Sørland/Vestre and Møre/Trøndelag. The seven group winners qualified for promotion play-offs to compete for two spots in the 1963 1. divisjon. Sarpsborg and Gjøvik-Lyn won the play-offs and were promoted to the top flight.LandsdelsserienLandsdelsserien is a former division in Norwegian football and from 1951 to 1962, it was the second tier division in the Norwegian football league system. Following the creation of the new 1. divisjon in 1963, the division folded and its district groups were replaced by national groups in the new second tier; 2. divisjon. HistoryLandsdelsserien consisted of seven district groups of seven or eight team in each group.
Norwegian Second DivisionThe Norwegian Second Division, also called 2. divisjon, is the third-highest level of the Norwegian football league system. There are 28 teams divided into two groups, and at the end of the season the winner of each group earns promotion to the second-highest division, 1. divisjon. The teams finishing in second place in their respective group will qualify for the promotion play-offs, where they will face each other. The winner will play against the 14th placed team in 1.2015 Eliteserien promotion/relegation play-offsThe 2015 Eliteserien promotion/relegation play-offs was the 42nd time a spot in the Norwegian top flight was decided by play-off matches between top tier and second level clubs. At the end of the 2015 season, Mjøndalen and Sandefjord Fotball were relegated directly to 2016 OBOS-ligaen, and was replaced by Sogndal and SK Brann who were directly promoted.
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Norwegian languageNorwegian (endonym: norsk [ˈnɔʂːk] , norsk språk [ˈnɔʂːk sproːk]) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional varieties; some Norwegian and Swedish dialects, in particular, are very close.2022 Norwegian First DivisionThe 2022 Norwegian First Division (referred to as OBOS-ligaen for sponsorship reasons) is a Norwegian second-tier football league season. The league started on 2 April 2022, and is scheduled to end on 29 October 2022, not including play-off matches.2017 Norwegian First DivisionThe 2017 1. divisjon (referred to as OBOS-ligaen for sponsorship reasons) was a Norwegian second-tier football league season. The first round of the season was played on 2 April 2017 and the season concluded with the last round on 5 November 2017.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.