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Espen Hoff
Espen Hoff (born 20 November 1981) is a retired Norwegian professional footballer, born in Larvik. He is primarily a winger, but may also play as an attacking midfielder, whilst at Lyn he occasionally featured on the left wing. With 406 top division appearances, Hoff has made the sixth-highest number of appearances in Eliteserien. Club career Espen Hoff was signed from Odd Grenland before the start of the 2006 season in Norway. As a junior, he played for Larvik Turn, before moving to Skien and Odd Grenland in 1999. At Odd Grenland, he scored 37 goals in 155 league matches, and additional 20 goals in 30 Norwegian Cup games. He also appeared in 6 European Cup games, without netting. He won the Norwegian Cup with Odd Grenland in 2000. He signed for Tippeligaen Champions Stabæk in 2008 and from 2009 onwards he was a Stabæk player. He joined Start in 2010. International career Espen Hoff has been capped twice for his national side, making his début in a friendly against Bahr ...
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Larvik
Larvik () is a town and municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. The municipality of Larvik has about 46,364 inhabitants. The municipality has a 110 km coastline, only shorter than that of neighbouring Sandefjord. The city achieved market town status in 1671. Larvik was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The city of Stavern, and the rural municipalities of Brunlanes, Hedrum, and Tjølling were forcefully merged into the municipality of Larvik on 1 January 1988. On 1 January 2018, neighboring Lardal was merged into Larvik as part of a nationwide municipal reform. After the merge, Larvik is the largest municipality in Vestfold by area, and the second-most populous municipality in the Vestfold district. Larvik is known as the hometown of Thor Heyerdahl. It is also home to '' Bøkeskogen'', the northernmost beech tree forest in the world. It ...
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Tippeligaen
Eliteserien () is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Norwegian First Division. Seasons run from March to November with each team playing 30 matches (playing each other home and away). Most games are played on Sunday evenings. Eliteserien was founded in 1937 as Norgesserien (English: ''The League of Norway''), and the first season was the 1937–38 season. The structure and name of Eliteserien, along with Norway's other football leagues, has undergone frequent changes. The top level was renamed ''Hovedserien'' in 1948, ''1. divisjon'' (now used by the second level league in Norway) in 1963, then ''Tippeligaen'' (named for the main sponsor) in 1990. Starting with the 2017 season the league adopted the current ''Eliteserien'', after NFF decided to totally drop any s ...
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2011 In Norwegian Football
The 2011 season was the 106th season of competitive football in Norway. The season began on 18 March 2011 for Tippeligaen, 3 April 2011 for Adeccoligaen, with 2. divisjon and 3. divisjon both starting six days later on 9 April 2011. 2. divisjon and 3. divisjon ended on 22 October 2011 while Adeccoligaen ended eight days later on 30 October 2011 and Tippeligaen finished on 27 November 2011. Events of the season January 8 January 2011: Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norway's most capped player with 104 games, dies from a stroke at the age of 86. August 13 August 2011: Start beat Adeccoliga side Alta 1–0 and through to the semi final of 2011 Norwegian Football Cup. 2009 winners Aalesund is heading for another Cup-victory after beating Rosenborg at home. 14 August 2011: Fredrikstad FK denies Ole Gunnar Solskjær success in the Norwegian Football Cup in his first year as a manager in Norway. Molde lost 2–3 at Fredrikstad Stadion after extra time. In Stavanger, Brann k ...
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2010 In Norwegian Football
The 2010 season was the 105th season of competitive football in Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t .... Men's football League season Tippeligaen 1. divisjon 2. divisjon 3. divisjon Cup competitions Norwegian Cup =Final= Superfinalen Women's football League season Toppserien 1. divisjon Norwegian Women's Cup Final * Røa 7–0 Trondheims-Ørn Men's UEFA competitions Champions League Qualifying phase =Second qualifying round= =Third qualifying round= =Play-off round= UEFA Europa League Qualifying phase =Second qualifying round= =Third qualifying round= Group stage =Group B= UEFA Women's Champions League Knockout stage Round of 32 Round of 16 National teams Norway men's national football ...
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2009 In Norwegian Football
The 2009 season was the 104th season of competitive football in Norway. Men's football League season Promotion and relegation Tippeligaen 1. divisjon 2. divisjon 3. divisjon Cup competitions Norwegian Cup =Final= Superfinalen Women's football League season Promotion and relegation Toppserien 1. divisjon Norwegian Women's Cup Final * Team Strømmen 0–1 Røa Men's UEFA competitions Champions League Qualifying phase =Second qualifying round= =Third qualifying round= UEFA Europa League Qualifying phase =First qualifying round= =Second qualifying round= =Third qualifying round= =Play-off round= UEFA Women's Champions League Qualifying round Group G Matches (played in Osijek, Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , map_caption ...
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2008 In Norwegian Football
The 2008 season was the 103rd season of competitive football in Norway. Men's football League season Promotion and relegation Tippeligaen 1. divisjon 2. divisjon 3. divisjon Norwegian Cup Final Women's football League season Promotion and relegation Toppserien 1. divisjon Norwegian Women's Cup Final * Røa 3–1 Team Strømmen Men's UEFA competitions Champions League Qualifying rounds =Second qualifying round= =Third qualifying round= UEFA Cup Qualifying rounds =First qualifying round= =Second qualifying round= First round Group stage =Group G= Intertoto Cup Second round Third round Winners The 11 co-winners were: * Braga (Overall winners) ''(Round of 16, lost to Paris Saint-Germain)'' * Aston Villa ''(Round of 32, lost to CSKA Moscow)'' * Deportivo La Coruña ''(Round of 32, lost to AaB)'' * Stuttgart ''(Round of 32, lost to Zenit Saint Petersburg)'' * Rosenborg ''(Group stage, fifth in Grou ...
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2007 In Norwegian Football
The 2007 season was the 102nd season of competitive football in Norway. Men's football League season Promotion and relegation Tippeligaen 1. divisjon 2. divisjon 3. divisjon Norwegian Cup Final Women's football League season Promotion and relegation Toppserien 1. divisjon Norwegian Women's Cup Final * Asker 2–4 Kolbotn Men's UEFA competitions Champions League Qualifying rounds =Second qualifying round= =Third qualifying round= Group stage =Group B= UEFA Cup Qualifying rounds =First qualifying round= =Second qualifying round= First round Group stage =Group D= Final phase =Round of 32= Intertoto Cup No Norwegian teams participated this season. UEFA Women's Cup Second qualifying round Group B4 Matches (Played in Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at th ...
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Lyn Fotball
Lyn 1896 Fotballklubb () is a Norwegian football club and a department of the sports club Ski- og Fotballklubben Lyn based in Oslo, whose members also participate in Nordic skiing and orienteering. Until 2010, SFK Lyn had two football departments, one professional section and one amateur section. After the professional football department, FK Lyn, was bankrupted in 2010, the fans decided to support the amateur department, Lyn Fotball, instead. With the help of some of the old FK Lyn players, Lyn Fotball has won three consecutive promotions, and are playing in the 3. divisjon. The team plays its home matches at Bislett Stadium, and the head coach is currently Jan Halvor Halvorsen. Lyn was founded in 1896 and is one of the oldest football clubs in Norway. They were founding members of the Football Association of Norway in 1902. The club won the top division title in 1964 and 1968 and have won the cup eight times. Lyn was also the initiator of the construction of Ullevaal Stad ...
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2006 In Norwegian Football
The 2006 season was the 101st season of competitive football in Norway. Men's football League season Promotion and relegation Tippeligaen 1. divisjon 2. divisjon 3. divisjon Norwegian Cup Final Women's football League season Promotion and relegation Toppserien 1. divisjon Norwegian Women's Cup Final * Røa 3–2 Asker Asker ( no, Asker), properly called Askerbygda in Norwegian, is a district and former municipality in Akershus, Norway. From 2020 it is part of the larger administrative municipality Asker, Viken (also known as Greater Asker) in Viken count ... Men's UEFA competitions Champions League Qualifying rounds =Second qualifying round= UEFA Cup Qualifying rounds =First qualifying round= =Second qualifying round= First round Intertoto Cup Second round Third round UEFA Women's Cup Second qualifying round Group 2 Matches Kolbotn 4–2 RCD Espanyol Lehenda-Cheksil Chernihiv 1–2 Kolbotn Kolbo ...
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2005 In Norwegian Football
The 2005 season was the 100th season of competitive football in Norway. Men's football League season Tippeligaen Vålerenga won the 2005 Tippeligaen, while Aalesunds FK and FK Bodø/Glimt were relegated. Molde FK had to play two qualification matches against Moss from the 1. divisjon. Molde won the qualification matches and maintained their position in Tippeligaen. The greatest surprises of the 2005 season were the great performance of IK Start, promoted to the Tippeligaen in the 2004 season and ended up winning silver, and the disappointing performance of Rosenborg BK which fought against relegation from the Tippeligaen after winning it for 13 straight seasons. The season ended on a sad note as Fredrikstad's Dagfinn Enerly got a serious neck injury in the last round match against Start. 1. divisjon 2. divisjon 3. divisjon Norwegian Cup Bracket Final Molde beat Lillestrøm 4–2 (after extra time) in the final held November 6 at Ullevaal Stadion. Women's fo ...
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2004 In Norwegian Football
The 2004 season was the 99th season of competitive football in Norway. Men's football League season Tippeligaen 1. divisjon 2. divisjon 3. divisjon Norwegian Cup Bracket Final Women's football League season Toppserien 1. divisjon Norwegian Women's Cup Final * Røa 2–1 Asker Men's UEFA competitions Norwegian representatives: *Rosenborg (UEFA Champions League) *Bodø/Glimt (UEFA Cup, Norwegian Cup runners-up) *Stabæk (UEFA Cup) *Odd Grenland (UEFA Cup) Champions League Qualifying rounds =Second qualifying round= =Third qualifying round= Group stage =Group E= Matches *September 14: Panathinaikos (Greece) – Rosenborg 2–1 *September 29: Rosenborg – Arsenal (England) 1–1 *October 20: Rosenborg – PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) 1–2 *November 2: PSV Eindhoven – Rosenborg 1–0 *November 24: Rosenborg – Panathinaikos 2–2 *December 7: Arsenal – Rosenborg 5–1 UEFA Cup Second qualifying round First round Intertoto Cup No N ...
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2003 In Norwegian Football
The 2003 season was the 98th season of competitive football in Norway. Men's football League season Tippeligaen = Play-offs = November 10: Sandefjord – Vålerenga 0–0 November 22: Vålerenga – Sandefjord 5–3 (agg. 5–3) Vålerenga stay up. = Top scorers = 17 goals: Harald Martin Brattbakk, Rosenborg 15 goals: Frode Johnsen, Rosenborg 13 goals: Håvard Flo, Sogndal 11 goals: Magne Hoseth, Molde ::Erik Nevland, Viking 10 goals: Edwin van Ankeren, Odd Grenland :: Thomas Finstad, Stabæk 1. divisjon 2. divisjon 3. divisjon Norwegian Cup Final Women's football League season Toppserien 1. divisjon Norwegian Women's Cup Final *Medkila 2–1 Kolotn Men's UEFA competitions Norwegian representatives *Rosenborg (UEFA Champions League) *Vålerenga (UEFA Cup, cup winner) *Molde (UEFA Cup) *Lyn (UEFA Cup) Champions League Qualifying rounds =Second qualifying round= =Third qualifying round= UEFA Cup Qualifying round First round ...
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