2022 Norwegian First Division

The 2022 Norwegian First Division (referred to as OBOS-ligaen for sponsorship reasons) is a Norwegian second-tier football league season.

Norwegian First Division

Season	2022
Dates	2 April – 29 October
Champions	Brann
Promoted	Brann Stabæk
Relegated	Grorud Stjørdals-Blink
Matches played	240
Goals scored	789 (3.29 per match)
Top goalscorer	Bård Finne Gift Orban (16 goals)
Highest attendance	16,617 Brann 3–0 Sandnes Ulf (16 May 2022)[1]
Lowest attendance	125 Grorud 1–1 Raufoss (3 October 2022)[1]
Average attendance	2,121[1]
← 2021 2023 →

The league started on 2 April 2022, and is scheduled to end on 29 October 2022, not including play-off matches.^[2]

Teams

Brann

Bryne

Fredrikstad

Kongsvinger

Mjøndalen

Ranheim

Raufoss

Sandnes Ulf

Sogndal

Start

Stjørdals-Blink

Åsane

Oslo

Oslo region teams:
Grorud
KFUM
Skeid
Stabæk

Locations of the teams in the 2022 Norwegian First Division

In the 2021 1. divisjon, HamKam, Aalesund, and Jerv were promoted to the 2022 Eliteserien, while Strømmen and Ull/Kisa were relegated to the 2022 2. divisjon.

Mjøndalen, Stabæk, and Brann were relegated from the 2021 Eliteserien, while Kongsvinger and Skeid were promoted from the 2021 2. divisjon.

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	Arena	Capacity[3]
Åsane	Bergen	Åsane Arena	3,300
Brann	Bergen	Brann Stadion	16,750
Bryne	Bryne	Bryne Stadion	4,000
Fredrikstad	Fredrikstad	Fredrikstad Stadion	12,500
Grorud	Oslo	Grorud Match Kunstgress	1,700
KFUM Oslo	Oslo	KFUM-Arena	2,000
Kongsvinger	Kongsvinger	Gjemselund Stadion	5,824
Mjøndalen	Mjøndalen	Consto Arena	4,200
Ranheim	Trondheim	EXTRA Arena	3,000
Raufoss	Raufoss	NAMMO Stadion	1,800
Sandnes Ulf	Sandnes	Øster Hus Arena	6,043
Skeid	Oslo	Nordre Åsen Kunstgressbane	2,500
Sogndal	Sogndal	Fosshaugane Campus	5,622
Stabæk	Bærum	Nadderud Stadion	4,938
Start	Kristiansand	Sparebanken Sør Arena	14,448
Stjørdals-Blink	Stjørdalshalsen	M.U.S Stadion Sandskogan	2,000

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Brann (C, P)	30	26	3	1	95	16	+79	81	Qualification for the Europa Conference League third qualifying round and promotion to Eliteserien[a]
2	Stabæk (P)	30	16	10	4	62	28	+34	58	Promotion to Eliteserien
3	Start	30	16	6	8	63	38	+25	54	Qualification for the promotion play-offs
4	KFUM Oslo	30	15	7	8	61	48	+13	52
5	Sandnes Ulf	30	14	5	11	54	52	+2	47
6	Kongsvinger	30	13	7	10	43	37	+6	46
7	Sogndal	30	12	7	11	55	53	+2	43
8	Ranheim	30	12	7	11	49	52	−3	43
9	Mjøndalen	30	13	3	14	39	47	−8	42
10	Fredrikstad	30	9	8	13	46	51	−5	35
11	Bryne	30	9	8	13	42	52	−10	35
12	Raufoss	30	9	8	13	35	54	−19	35
13	Åsane	30	8	8	14	42	67	−25	32
14	Skeid (O)	30	8	4	18	39	54	−15	28	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
15	Grorud (R)	30	4	8	18	34	69	−35	20	Relegation to Second Division
16	Stjørdals-Blink (R)	30	4	5	21	30	71	−41	17

Source: NFF (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.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Brann qualified for the Europa Conference League third qualifying round as winners of the 2022 Norwegian Football Cup.

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
Brann	2	3	2	3	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Stabæk	4	6	3	7	6	6	4	4	3	4	4	3	3	2	2	4	4	3	4	5	4	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Start	1	2	8	6	5	3	3	3	7	8	8	7	9	9	9	9	9	9	7	8	8	6	6	6	4	3	4	4	4	3
KFUM Oslo	7	5	6	4	8	9	7	7	5	6	7	5	4	7	7	8	6	6	5	4	3	2	2	3	3	4	3	3	3	4
Sandnes Ulf	5	1	1	1	2	4	5	5	4	5	6	9	6	5	4	3	3	2	3	3	5	5	5	4	5	5	6	6	6	5
Kongsvinger	13	8	10	10	11	10	10	11	13	13	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	9	9	9	8	7	7	6	5	5	5	6
Sogndal	3	4	4	5	4	7	8	6	8	7	5	6	8	6	6	5	5	7	8	6	6	7	9	9	8	8	7	7	9	7
Ranheim	16	14	9	8	9	8	9	8	6	3	2	2	2	3	3	2	2	4	2	2	2	4	4	5	6	7	8	8	7	8
Mjøndalen	6	7	5	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	3	4	7	8	5	6	8	8	9	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	8	9
Fredrikstad	7	9	6	9	7	5	6	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	12	11	12	12	12	12	12	11	12	11	12	10
Bryne	12	15	16	16	16	14	14	14	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	10	11
Raufoss	14	12	12	12	10	11	11	12	10	9	9	8	5	4	8	7	7	5	6	7	7	8	7	8	10	10	10	10	11	12
Åsane	15	13	14	13	13	14	12	10	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	12	11	11	11	11	11	12	11	13	13	13
Skeid	11	15	15	15	15	16	15	15	16	16	16	15	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Grorud	7	9	11	11	12	12	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15
Stjørdals-Blink	7	11	13	14	14	15	16	16	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16

	Promotion to 2023 Eliteserien
	Promotion play-offs
	Relegation play-offs
	Relegation to 2023 2. divisjon

Source: nifs.no

Results

Home \ Away	BRA	BRY	FRE	GRO	KFU	KON	MJØ	RAN	RAU	ULF	SKE	SOG	STB	STA	STJ	ÅSA
Brann	—	2–1	3–0	7–0	4–1	3–0	7–0	5–0	3–0	3–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	5–0	1–1
Bryne	1–5	—	0–2	2–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	5–0	0–2	0–3	3–3	0–0	2–0	0–0	2–1
Fredrikstad	1–3	1–3	—	3–1	1–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–4	1–2	2–0	5–2	2–4	1–0	2–2	2–2
Grorud	0–2	2–2	2–2	—	1–3	1–2	0–1	2–1	1–1	1–3	1–1	2–0	0–4	0–3	1–2	3–1
KFUM Oslo	1–5	3–3	2–1	2–2	—	1–0	3–0	1–2	1–1	3–2	3–0	3–2	0–0	0–1	3–1	2–2
Kongsvinger	1–3	2–1	0–1	2–2	3–1	—	2–1	2–2	4–1	3–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–2	5–0	1–1
Mjøndalen	3–1	2–1	2–0	3–0	2–1	1–0	—	1–2	1–2	4–1	1–0	0–4	2–4	0–0	2–1	1–1
Ranheim	0–4	1–1	3–2	2–1	4–1	0–2	2–1	—	3–2	1–2	4–0	3–3	0–1	2–2	2–1	3–3
Raufoss	0–5	2–0	2–1	1–1	0–3	0–1	2–1	1–1	—	1–1	1–0	0–3	0–4	1–2	2–2	1–0
Sandnes Ulf	0–3	2–1	0–4	2–4	2–2	4–1	0–2	3–2	1–4	—	0–0	6–0	2–2	3–5	0–0	6–0
Skeid	2–3	1–2	3–3	3–2	1–5	4–0	1–2	1–0	2–2	0–1	—	2–3	2–3	3–2	3–1	2–0
Sogndal	0–4	2–1	1–1	4–0	1–2	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–2	0–1	—	4–3	1–2	6–1	2–3
Stabæk	1–2	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–0	3–2	2–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	—	5–0	4–2	4–0
Start	0–2	6–0	1–0	5–0	3–2	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	1–2	3–2	5–1	0–0	—	3–1	4–1
Stjørdals-Blink	1–2	0–2	1–2	1–0	1–3	1–4	1–2	0–1	1–2	1–2	1–0	1–3	3–2	0–3	—	2–4
Åsane	0–2	1–2	4–3	3–2	0–3	1–2	3–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	3–2	1–1	0–4	1–5	1–1	—

Source: NFF (in Norwegian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

Promotion play-offs

The teams from third to sixth place will take part in the promotion play-offs; these are single leg knockout matches. In the first round, the fifth-placed team will play at home against the sixth-placed team. The winner of the first round will meet the fourth-placed team on away ground in the second round. The winner of the second round will meet the third-placed team on away ground. The winner of the third round will face the 14th-placed team in the Eliteserien over two legs in the Eliteserien play-offs for a spot in the top-flight next season.^[4]

	First round					Second round					Third round
											3	Start	0
						4	KFUM Oslo	1			6	Kongsvinger	1
	5	Sandnes Ulf	0			6	Kongsvinger	2
	6	Kongsvinger	1

First round

Sandnes Ulf	0–1	Kongsvinger
	Report	Taylor 82'

3 November 2022

18:00 CET

Øster Hus Arena, Sandnes

Attendance: 1,518

Referee: Svein Tore Sinnes

Second round

KFUM Oslo	1–2	Kongsvinger
Hestnes 2'	Report	Gerson 49' Andersen 89'

8 November 2022

18:00 CET

Intility Arena, Oslo

Attendance: 1,763

Referee: Kristoffer Hagenes

Third round

Start	0–1	Kongsvinger
	Report	Gerson 88' (pen.)

13 November 2022

17:00 CET

Sør Arena, Kristiansand

Attendance: 6,621

Referee: Mohammad Usman Aslam

Relegation play-offs

The 14th-placed team took part in a two-legged play-off against the winners of the Second Division play-offs, to decide who would play in the First Division next season.^[4]

	Semifinal							Final
								Skeid		6	2	8
	Arendal		0	3	3			Arendal		0	1	1
	Ull/Kisa		1	0	1

Skeid	6–0	Arendal
Buduson 3', 43' Hoven 54' Romsaas 56' Effiom 67', 80'	Report

2 November 2022

14:00 CET

Nordre Åsen, Oslo

Attendance: 552

Referee: Steinar Hauge

Arendal	1–2	Skeid
Johansen 79'	Report	Nordengen 61' Buduson 83'

5 November 2022

14:00 CET

Norac Stadion, Arendal

Attendance: 519

Referee: Marius Lien

Skeid won 8–1 on aggregate.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[5]
1	Bård Finne	Brann	16
	Gift Orban	Stabæk
3	Mathias Rasmussen	Brann	15
4	Vegard Erlien	Ranheim	14
	Aune Heggebø	Brann
6	Martin Ramsland	Sandnes Ulf	13
7	Jonatan Braut Brunes	Start	12
	Marcus Mehnert	Ranheim
	Nicolay Solberg	Fredrikstad
10	Niklas Castro	Brann	11
	Jónatan Ingi Jónsson	Sogndal
	Eirik Schulze	Start

Discipline

Player

• Most yellow cards: 9^[5]
  • Jakob Lindström (Fredrikstad)
  • Ole Amund Sveen (Mjøndalen)
  • Erik Tønne (Ranheim)

• Most red cards: 2^[5]
  • Nicolai Fremstad (Raufoss)
  • Isaac Twum (Mjøndalen / Sogndal)
  • Morten Strand (Stjørdals-Blink)
  • Curtis Edwards (Stabæk)
  • David Paulmin (Stjørdals-Blink)