The 2001 season of the Toppserien, the highest women's football (soccer)

Women's football (soccer)

Women's association football has been played for many decades, but was associated with charity games and physical exercise in the past before the breakthrough of organized women's association football came in the 1970s. Before the 1970s, football was basically seen as a men's game...

 league in Norway

Norway

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, began on 21 April 2001 and ended on 27 October 2001.

18 games were played with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Number nine and ten were relegated, while the two top teams from the First Division were promoted.

Trondheims-Ørn won the league.

League table

Kolbotn Arna-Bjørnar Asker Klepp

Klepp IL

Klepp IL is a Norwegian sports club from the municipality of Klepp. It was founded on 1 October 1919, and has sections for football, handball and gymnastics as well as the less active sections for athletics and orienteering....

 Team Strømmen Røa

Røa IL

Røa IL is a Norwegian sports club from Røa in the borough of Vestre Aker, Oslo. It was founded on 11 November 1900, and has sections for football, gymnastics, bandy and cross-country skiing. Football, bandy and nordic skiing has been dominant in Røa. In bandy, the team has twice made it to the...

 Byåsen 

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35

14

33

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Trondheims-Ørn	18	17	1	0	90	13
52
18	15	0	3	55	20
45
18	13	2	3	41	27
41
18	11	2	5	59	26
35
18	8	2	8	32	38
26
18	6	0	12	31	50
18
18	3	3	12	18	51
12
18	3	3	12	15	64
12
9	Liungen	18	2	4	12	25	57
10
10	Athene Moss FK Athene Moss FK Athene Moss is a Norwegian women's football club from Moss. It is named after Athena in Greek mythology.It was founded in 1996, replacing SK Sprint-Jeløy which was a former successful club from Moss. Athene Moss played in the Toppserien until 2001, when it was relegated...	18	1	5	12	13	33
8

	Qualified for the UEFA Women's Cup
	Relegated to the First Division

Top goalscorers

• 31 goals:
  •   Ragnhild Gulbrandsen
    Ragnhild Gulbrandsen
    Ragnhild Gulbrandsen is a Norwegian football striker from the city of Trondheim who retired from football at the end of 2007...
    
    , Trondheims/Ørn
• 19 goals:
  •   Elene Moseby, Team Strømmen
• 18 goals:
  •   Solveig Gulbrandsen
    Solveig Gulbrandsen
    Solveig Gulbrandsen is a Norwegian footballer from the Oppegård area to the South-East of Oslo. She is a midfielder on her club side Stabæk Fotball....
    
    , Kolbotn
• 15 goals:
  •   Ingunn Sørum, Liungen
• 14 goals:
  •   Brit Sandaune
    Brit Sandaune
    Brit Sandaune is a Norwegian soccer player and pre-school teacher. She is originally from the rural area of Skatval in the municipality of Stjørdal, Nord-Trøndelag, and is educated in economy and administration...
    
    , Trondheims-Ørn
• 13 goals:
  •   Ellinor Grønfur, Klepp
    Klepp IL
    Klepp IL is a Norwegian sports club from the municipality of Klepp. It was founded on 1 October 1919, and has sections for football, handball and gymnastics as well as the less active sections for athletics and orienteering....
    
    
  •   Linda Ørmen
    Linda Ørmen
    Linda Ørmen is a former Norwegian football player who played for the Norway women's national football team from 1998 to 2001.She played on the Norwegian team that finished fourth at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup in United States....
    
    , Kolbotn
• 11 goals:
  •   Bente Musland, Arna-Bjørnar
  •   Kjersti Thun
    Kjersti Thun
    Kjersti Thun is a Norwegian former soccer player. Thun played 12 games and scored one goal for Norway, and was on the team that took bronze at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.At club level, she played for the Asker and Konnerud...
    
    , Asker
• 10 goals:
  •   Kristin Stundal, Asker
  •   Trine Rønning
    Trine Rønning
    Trine Bjerke Rønning is a Norwegian football player. She made her debut on the Norway women's national football team in 1999 and has played many seasons for the national team, becoming vice-captain in 2009...
    
    , Trondheims-Ørn
  •   Heidi Pedersen, Trondheims-Ørn
• 9 goals:
  •   Ingrid Camilla Fosse Sæthre, Arna-Bjørnar
  •   Marit Jordanger, Trondheims-Ørn

Promotion and relegation

• Liungen and Athene Moss
  FK Athene Moss
  FK Athene Moss is a Norwegian women's football club from Moss. It is named after Athena in Greek mythology.It was founded in 1996, replacing SK Sprint-Jeløy which was a former successful club from Moss. Athene Moss played in the Toppserien until 2001, when it was relegated...
  
   were relegated to the First Division.
• Sandviken
  IL Sandviken
  IL Sandviken is a Norwegian sports club from the neighborhood Sandviken in Bergenhus borough, Bergen. It has sections for football and handball.The women's football team currently resides in the Toppserien, having played there since the 2004 season...
  
   and Larvik
  FK Larvik
  FK Larvik is a Norwegian women's football club from Larvik, founded in 1997 through a merger of the women's football sections of Nanset IF and Halsen IF....
  
  were promoted from the First Division.