The 2000 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 29 April 2000 and ended on 21 October 2000.

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

Asker Kolbotn Bjørnar 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...

 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....

 Byåsen Setskog/Høland 

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44

20

22

19

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Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Trondheims-Ørn	18	16	0	2	62	14
48
18	15	2	1	64	20
47
18	11	2	5	47	27
35
18	9	3	6	52	30
30
18	9	3	6	48	29
30
18	8	1	9	27	26
25
18	4	1	13	17	47
13
18	4	0	14	27	78
12
9	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	3	2	13	19	55
11
10	Grand Bodø IK Grand Bodø Idrettsklubben Grand Bodø is a Norwegian association football club from Bodø, Nordland.It was founded on 12 April 1917.Former Liverpool and England international full-back Chris Lawler was player-coach for the club in 1979....	18	3	2	13	18	55
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	Qualified for the UEFA Women's Cup
	Relegated to the First Division

Top goalscorers

• 24 goals:
  •   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
  •   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
• 20 goals:
  •   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
• 15 goals:
  •   Bente Musland, Bjørnar
• 13 goals:
  •   Ingrid Camilla Fosse Sæthre, Bjørnar
  •   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....
    
    
  •   Ann Kristin Aarønes, Trondheims-Ørn
• 12 goals:
  •   Margunn Haugenes
    Margunn Haugenes
    Margunn Haugenes is a Norwegian footballer and Olympic champion.Haugenes debuted for the Norwegian national team in 1990 at the age of 20, also moving from her lower-division club Kaupanger IL to the Toppserien club Asker SK...
    
    , Bjørnar
  •   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
  •   Ann Elisabeth Kallevik, Setskog/Høland
• 11 goals:
  •   Linda Medalen
    Linda Medalen
    Linda Medalen is a former Norwegian footballer.She was one of Norway's most celebrated women footballers, finishing her international career with 152 caps, scoring 64 goals. She was on the Norwegian team that won the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup.She played most of her career in Norway with Asker...
    
    , Asker
  •   Tonje Hansen, Kolbotn
• 10 goals:
  •   Anita Rapp
    Anita Rapp
    Anita Rapp is a former Norwegian footballer and Olympic champion.She debuted for the Norwegian national team in 1998, and played 62 matches for the national team.She received a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney....
    
    , Asker

Promotion and relegation

• 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....
  
   and Grand Bodø
  IK Grand Bodø
  Idrettsklubben Grand Bodø is a Norwegian association football club from Bodø, Nordland.It was founded on 12 April 1917.Former Liverpool and England international full-back Chris Lawler was player-coach for the club in 1979....
  
   were relegated to the First Division.
• 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...
  
   and Liungen were promoted from the First Division.