The 2003 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 16 April 2003 and ended on 2 November 2003.

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 Asker 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...

 Fløya Arna-Bjørnar Team Strømmen 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....

 

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Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Trondheims-Ørn	18	15	2	1	53	7
47
18	13	0	5	63	28
39
18	12	3	3	54	20
39
18	7	6	5	23	27
27
18	8	1	9	28	40
25
18	6	4	8	43	48
22
18	6	2	10	33	47
20
18	3	8	7	25	36
17
7	Liungen	18	5	2	11	32	45
17
10	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....	18	0	2	16	14	70
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	Qualified for the UEFA Women's Cup UEFA Women's Cup 2004-05 The UEFA Women's Cup 2004–05 was the fourth edition of the UEFA Women's Cup football club tournament. It was won by Germany's FFC Turbine Potsdam against Djurgården/Älvsjö of Sweden in the final for their first title in the competition...
	Relegated to the First Division

Top goalscorers

• 15 goals:
  •   Bente Musland, Arna-Bjørnar
  •   Marianne Pettersen
    Marianne Pettersen
    Marianne Iren Pettersen is a Norwegian footballer. She was a forward for the club Asker, whom she joined from Gjelleråsen after the 1996 season, and became the top scorer with 36 goals in the 1998 season of 18 matches. For the Norwegian national team, she debuted in 1994, scoring against Italy....
    
    , Asker
  •   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
• 12 goals:
  •   Tonje Hansen, Kolbotn
  •   Ingunn Sørum, Liungen
• 11 goals:
  •   Elene Moseby, Team Strømmen
  •   Heidi Pedersen, Trondheims-Ørn
• 9 goals:
  •   Ingrid Camilla Fosse Sæthre, 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
  •   Christine Bøe Jensen
    Christine Bøe Jensen
    Christine Bøe Jensen is a Norwegian footballer and Olympic champion.She received a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.-References:...
    
    , Kolbotn
• 8 goals:
  •   Veronica Stefanussen, Fløya
  •   Lene Espedal, 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....
    
    
  •   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

Promotion and relegation

• Liungen 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 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 Medkila
  Medkila IL
  Medkila IL's women section is a football team from Harstad in North Norway currently playing in the Toppserien, Norway's premier women's football league....
  
  were promoted from the First Division.