The 2015

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(referred to as the OBOS-ligaen for sponsorship reasons) was a Norwegian second-tier

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league season. The league was contested by 16 teams, and the top two teams were promoted to

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, while the teams placed from third to sixth place played a promotion-playoff against the 14th-placed team in Tippeligaen to win promotion. The bottom four teams were relegated to the 2. divisjon. The first round of the season was played on 6 April 2015 and the season ended with the last round on 1 November 2015. The playoff-tournament was played between 7 and 21 November 2015. An agreement with Oslo's housing cooperative OBOS was signed on 15 January 2015, branding the league as OBOS-ligaen until 2021.

Team changes from 2014

In the 2014 1. divisjon,

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and

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won promotion to Tippeligaen, while Alta, HamKam, Tromsdalen and Ull/Kisa were relegated to the 2015 2. divisjon.

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and Brann, were relegated from the

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, while Follo, Jerv,

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and

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were promoted from the 2014 2. divisjon.

Teams

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Season statistics

Top scorers

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Hat tricks

References

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