Map of 2010 Norwegian Premier League
Norway’s top league, the Tippeligaen, is beautifully illustrated below as Bill’s Sports Maps returns to Pitch Invasion. Click below to see the full-size version.
Map of Norway league
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2 questions: Is their season in the winter? Natural or artificial turf?
It’s a summer league (or at least, it doesn’t run in the winter). I don’t know if any clubs have turf, does anyone know?
Season runs from mid-March to early-November
Quite a few Norwegian clubs use artificial pitches.
WonsanUnited is correct, plastic pitches are prevalent in Norway. Here are some examples…
The club furthest north, Tromso IL, has artificial turf, as does a team from the Oslofjord area, Stabaek Fotbal. Tromso is the northernmost first division football club in the world, so one can’t really fault them for the plastic pitch. Stabaek, who won the title 2 seasons ago (2008), play in a 15,000-capacity indoor arena (balls must hit the ceiling some times).
Here is a post (sorry, it’s in Portuguese) on the Telenor Arena http://estadiosdomundo.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/
Here is Wikipedia’s page on Tromso’s Alfheim stadion (capacity 7,500): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfheim_Stadion
Other clubs w/ the dreaded plastic playing surface are Aalesunds FK, Honefoss BK, Kongvinger, Odd Grenland, and Stromgodset IF.
So that makes 7 out of 16 clubs with artificial turf in the 2010 Norwegian top flight.
PS, Norway’s most successful club, the formerly perennial Champions League Group Stage qualifier, Rosenborg BK, has 4% artificial turf (it must be in the goal areas).
I will have a write-up on the Norwegian Premier League when I post this map on http://billsportsmaps.com , in early July.
I imagine that the majority of clubs being populated to one region of the country means that there is a fair amount of youth talent that doesn’t get a chance in the game due to not being able to get into a good youth set up becasue of geographical reasons, that is very sad if true
Travel costs must be high. It’s around 2000 kms between Tromsø and Kristiansand. Is this league professional or semi-pro?
The Norwegian Premier League is pro, see this, first sentance… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tippeligaen