2023 Eliteserien

The 2023 Eliteserien was the 79th season of top-tier football in Norway. This was the seventh season of Eliteserien after rebranding from Tippeligaen. Bodø/Glimt were crowned the champions at the end of the season, winning their 3rd Norwegian league title.

Eliteserien

Season	2023
Dates	10 April – 3 December
Champions	Bodø/Glimt 3rd title
Relegated	Vålerenga Stabæk Aalesund
Champions League	Bodø/Glimt
Europa League	Molde (via Norwegian Football Cup)
Conference League	Brann Tromsø
Matches played	240
Goals scored	748 (3.12 per match)
Top goalscorer	Amahl Pellegrino (24 goals)
Biggest home win	Molde 5–0 Sandefjord (29 May 2023) Sarpsborg 6–1 Sandefjord (2 July 2023) Haugesund 6–1 Aalesund (28 October 2023)
Biggest away win	HamKam 0–4 Molde (7 May 2023) Vålerenga 0–4 Molde (15 July 2023) Stabæk 0–4 Bodø/Glimt (5 November 2023) Aalesund 0–4 Viking (26 November 2023)
Highest scoring	Viking 7–3 HamKam (30 April 2023)
Longest winning run	10 matches Viking
Longest unbeaten run	13 matches Viking
Longest winless run	14 matches Stabæk
Longest losing run	7 matches Stabæk
Highest attendance	21,266 Rosenborg - Bodø/Glimt (17 September 2023)
Lowest attendance	2,214 Stabæk - Haugesund (23 April 2023)
Average attendance	7,239
← 2022 2024 → All statistics correct as of 3 December 2023.

The season started on 10 April 2023 and ended on 3 December 2023, not including play-off matches.^[1]

Molde were the defending champions. Brann and Stabæk joined as the promoted clubs from the 2022 Norwegian First Division. They replaced Kristiansund and Jerv who were relegated to the 2023 Norwegian First Division.

Teams

Sixteen teams competed in the league – the top fourteen teams from the previous season, and two teams promoted from the First Division. The promoted teams were Brann and Stabæk, both returning to the top flight after a season's absence. They replaced Kristiansund and Jerv, ending their top flight spells of six years and one year respectively.

Stadiums and locations

Aalesund

Bodø/Glimt

Brann

HamKam

Haugesund

Molde

Odd

Rosenborg

Sandefjord

Sarpsborg

Strømsgodset

Tromsø

Viking

Oslo

Oslo region teams:
Lillestrøm
Stabæk
Vålerenga

Locations of the teams in the 2023 Eliteserien

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.

Team	Ap.	Location	County	Arena	Turf	Capacity
Aalesund	19	Ålesund	Møre og Romsdal	Color Line Stadion	Artificial	10,778
Bodø/Glimt	28	Bodø	Nordland	Aspmyra Stadion	Artificial	8,300
Brann	65	Bergen	Vestland	Brann Stadion	Natural	16,750
HamKam	24	Hamar	Innlandet	Briskeby	Artificial	7,800
Haugesund	17	Haugesund	Rogaland	Haugesund Sparebank Arena	Natural	8,754
Lillestrøm	59	Lillestrøm	Viken	Åråsen Stadion	Natural	11,500
Molde	47	Molde	Møre og Romsdal	Aker Stadion	Artificial	11,249
Odd	42	Skien	Vestfold og Telemark	Skagerak Arena	Artificial	11,767
Rosenborg	60	Trondheim	Trøndelag	Lerkendal Stadion	Natural	21,421
Sandefjord	11	Sandefjord	Vestfold og Telemark	Release Arena	Natural	6,582
Sarpsborg	12	Sarpsborg	Viken	Sarpsborg Stadion	Artificial	8,022
Stabæk	26	Bærum	Viken	Nadderud Stadion	Artificial	4,938
Strømsgodset	36	Drammen	Viken	Marienlyst Stadion	Artificial	8,935
Tromsø	35	Tromsø	Troms og Finnmark	Romssa Arena	Artificial	6,687
Viking	73	Stavanger	Rogaland	SR-Bank Arena	Artificial	15,900
Vålerenga	63	Oslo	Oslo	Intility Arena	Artificial	16,555

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager(s)	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Aalesund	Christian Johnsen	David Fällman	Umbro	Sparebanken Møre
Bodø/Glimt	Kjetil Knutsen	Ulrik Saltnes	Diadora	SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge
Brann	Eirik Horneland	Sivert Heltne Nilsen	Nike	Sparebanken Vest
HamKam	Jakob Michelsen	Aleksander Melgalvis[2]	Puma	OBOS
Haugesund	Sancheev Manoharan (caretaker)	Peter Therkildsen	Umbro	Haugaland Kraft
Lillestrøm	Eirik Bakke (caretaker)	Gjermund Åsen[3]	Puma	DNB
Molde	Erling Moe	Magnus Wolff Eikrem	Adidas[4]	Sparebanken Møre
Odd	Pål Arne Johansen	Steffen Hagen	Hummel	Skagerak Energi
Rosenborg	Svein Maalen (caretaker)	Markus Henriksen	Adidas	SpareBank 1 SMN
Sandefjord	Hans Erik Ødegaard Andreas Tegström	Sander Moen Foss[5]	Macron	Jotun
Sarpsborg	Stefan Billborn	Joachim Thomassen	Hummel	Borregaard
Stabæk	Bob Bradley	Fredrik Krogstad	Nike	SpareBank 1 Østlandet
Strømsgodset	Jørgen Isnes	Gustav Valsvik	Puma	Sparebanken Øst
Tromsø	Gaute Helstrup	Ruben Yttergård Jenssen	Select	SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge
Viking	Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim Morten Jensen	Zlatko Tripić	Diadora	Lyse
Vålerenga	Geir Bakke	Stefan Strandberg[6]	Adidas	OBOS [no]

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in the table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Strømsgodset	Bjørn Petter Ingebretsen Håkon Wibe-Lund	Mutual consent	13 November 2022[7]	Pre-season	Jørgen Isnes	14 December 2022[8]
Aalesund	Lars Arne Nilsen	Mutual consent	4 May 2023[9]	16th	Marius Bøe (caretaker)	4 May 2023
Vålerenga	Dag-Eilev Fagermo	Mutual consent	12 June 2023[10]	13th	Jan Frode Nornes (caretaker)	12 June 2023
Aalesund	Marius Bøe (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	13 June 2023	16th	Christian Johnsen	13 June 2023[11]
Rosenborg	Kjetil Rekdal	Mutual consent	16 June 2023[12]	9th	Svein Maalen (caretaker)	16 June 2023
Lillestrøm	Geir Bakke	Signed by Vålerenga	12 July 2023[13]	8th	Simon Mesfin (caretaker)	12 July 2023
Vålerenga	Jan Frode Nornes (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	12 July 2023	13th	Geir Bakke	12 July 2023[14]
Lillestrøm	Simon Mesfin (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	10 August 2023	6th	Eirik Bakke (caretaker)	10 August 2023[15]
Stabæk	Lars Bohinen	Mutual consent	5 September 2023	15th	Bob Bradley	10 September 2023[16]
Haugesund	Jostein Grindhaug	Mutual consent	10 September 2023	12th	Sancheev Manoharan (caretaker)	10 September 2023[17]

Transfers

Winter

Main article: List of Norwegian football transfers winter 2022–23

Summer

Main article: List of Norwegian football transfers summer 2023

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bodø/Glimt (C)	30	22	4	4	78	38	+40	70	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	Brann	30	19	4	7	55	35	+20	61	Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round
3	Tromsø	30	19	4	7	48	33	+15	61
4	Viking	30	18	4	8	61	48	+13	58
5	Molde	30	15	6	9	65	39	+26	51	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[a]
6	Lillestrøm	30	13	4	13	49	49	0	43
7	Strømsgodset	30	13	3	14	37	35	+2	42
8	Sarpsborg	30	12	5	13	55	52	+3	41
9	Rosenborg	30	11	6	13	46	50	−4	39
10	Odd	30	10	8	12	42	44	−2	38
11	HamKam	30	10	4	16	39	59	−20	34
12	Haugesund	30	9	6	15	34	40	−6	33
13	Sandefjord	30	8	7	15	47	55	−8	31
14	Vålerenga (R)	30	7	8	15	39	50	−11	29	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
15	Stabæk (R)	30	7	8	15	30	48	−18	29	Relegation to First Division
16	Aalesund (R)	30	5	3	22	23	73	−50	18

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.^[18]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Molde qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round by winning the 2023 Norwegian Football Cup.

Results

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

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

Relegation play-offs

Main article: 2023 Eliteserien Promotion/relegation play-offs

The 14th-placed team in Eliteserien will face the winners of the First Division promotion play-offs over two legs to decide who will play in Eliteserien next season.^[19]

6 December 2023

19:00 CET

Kristiansund	0–2	Vålerenga
	Report	Håkans 65' Juklerød 86'

Kristiansund Stadion, Kristiansund

Attendance: 4,042

Referee: Rohit Saggi

10 December 2023

17:00 CET

Vålerenga	0–2 (a.e.t.)	Kristiansund
	Report	Rakneberg 76' Broholm 82'
Penalties
Børven Bjørdal Ofkir Ilić Borchgrevink	4–5	Stokke Willumsson Broholm Ulvestad Aasbak

Intility Arena, Oslo

Attendance: 10,459

Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen

2–2 on aggregate. Kristiansund won 5–4 on penalties.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[20]
1	Amahl Pellegrino	Bodø/Glimt	24
2	Bård Finne	Brann	16
3	Akor Adams	Lillestrøm	15
	Faris Moumbagna	Bodø/Glimt
	Vegard Erlien	Tromsø
6	Thomas Lehne Olsen	Lillestrøm	14
7	Zlatko Tripić	Viking	13
8	Danilo Al-Saed	Sandefjord	11
9	Lars-Jørgen Salvesen	Viking	10
10	5 players		9

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Amahl Pellegrino	Bodø/Glimt	Stabæk	4–0 (H)	16 April 2023
Akor Adams	Lillestrøm	Stabæk	3–1 (H)	4 June 2023
Eric Kitolano	Molde	Sarpsborg	5–1 (H)	22 July 2023
Amahl Pellegrino	Bodø/Glimt	Vålerenga	4–2 (H)	24 September 2023
Jo Inge Berget	Sarpsborg	Rosenborg	5–2 (H)	8 October 2023

League attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Brann	228,056	16,832	11,603	15,204	+45.8%1
2	Rosenborg	211,473	21,266	10,705	14,098	+7.7%†
3	Viking	193,841	15,900	9,477	12,923	+30.4%†
4	Vålerenga	158,123	16,556	7,578	10,542	+21.6%†
5	Lillestrøm	112,555	10,540	5,823	7,504	+11.3%†
6	Bodø/Glimt	103,216	8,244	5,832	6,881	+16.0%†
7	Molde	100,213	10,730	5,431	6,681	+4.6%†
8	Strømsgodset	81,504	7,014	4,385	5,434	+11.6%†
9	Aalesund	78,017	9,050	4,042	5,201	−5.1%†
10	Odd	77,406	8,331	3,844	5,160	+13.8%†
11	Haugesund	74,755	8,210	3,416	4,984	+27.7%†
12	Sarpsborg	73,987	8,022	3,574	4,932	+3.2%†
13	Tromsø	72,683	6,691	2,910	4,846	+61.3%†
14	HamKam	62,566	6,500	2,945	4,171	−7.2%2
15	Sandefjord	58,015	6,598	2,689	3,868	+16.1%†
16	Stabæk	50,922	4,938	2,214	3,395	+55.0%1
	League total	1,737,332	21,266	2,214	7,239	+26.7%†

Updated to games played on 3 December
Source: nifs.no
Notes:
1: Team played last season in 1. divisjon.
2: Reduced capacity for parts of the season due to construction work.