2025 Eliteserien


The 2025 Eliteserien was 81st season of top-tier football in Norway. This was the ninth season of Eliteserien after rebranding from Tippeligaen.
The season started on 29 March 2025 and was ended on 30 November 2025, not including play-off matches.
Bodø/Glimt were the defending champions. Vålerenga and Bryne joined as the promoted clubs from the 2024 Norwegian First Division. They replaced Lillestrøm and Odd, who were relegated to the 2025 Norwegian First Division.
Viking won a closely contested championship title by a single point on the last day of the season, earning their 9th overall title, fending off the defending champions Bodø/Glimt. Viking's last title had come 34 years earlier in 1991. With the win, Viking earned an entry to the 2026-27 Champions League play-off round.

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 Vålerenga and Bryne, who were promoted after respectively 1 and 21 seasons absent. They replaced Lillestrøm and Odd, ending their top flight spells of 4 and 16 years respectively.

Stadiums and locations

TeamLocationCountyArenaTurfCapacity
Bodø/Glimt30BodøNordlandAspmyra StadionArtificial8,200
Brann67BergenVestlandBrann StadionNatural17,500
Bryne18TimeRogalandBryne StadionNatural5,000
Fredrikstad44FredrikstadØstfoldFredrikstad StadionArtificial12,560
HamKam26HamarInnlandetBriskeby StadionArtificial8,068
Haugesund19HaugesundRogalandHaugesund Sparebank ArenaNatural8,983
KFUM Oslo2OsloOsloKFUM ArenaArtificial3,300
Kristiansund8KristiansundMøre og RomsdalNordmøre StadionArtificial4,364
Molde49MoldeMøre og RomsdalAker StadionArtificial11,249
Rosenborg62TrondheimTrøndelagLerkendal StadionNatural21,423
Sandefjord13SandefjordVestfoldJotun ArenaArtificial6,582
Sarpsborg 0814SarpsborgØstfoldSarpsborg StadionArtificial8,022
Strømsgodset38DrammenBuskerudMarienlyst StadionArtificial8,935
Tromsø37TromsøTromsRomssa ArenaArtificial6,691
Viking75StavangerRogalandLyse ArenaArtificial15,900
Vålerenga64OsloOsloIntility ArenaArtificial16,556

League table


Relegation play-offs

The 14th-placed team in Eliteserien faced the winners of the First Division promotion play-offs over two legs to decide who would play in Eliteserien next season.
''Aalesund won 4–1 on aggregate.''

Season statistics

Hat-tricks

PlayerForAgainstResultDate

Discipline

Player

Club

  • Most yellow cards: 66
  • *Molde
  • Fewest yellow cards: 20
  • *Bodø/Glimt
  • Most red cards: 4
  • *Vålerenga
  • Fewest red cards: 0
  • *Fredrikstad