The 2012 Toppserien was the 29th season of top-tier women's football in Norway. A total of 12 teams contested the league, ten returning from the 2011 season and the two teams promoted from the First Division, Vålerenga and Fart.
The season started on 14 April 2012.
Changes from 2011 Norway fell from 8th to 11th in the UEFA coefficient rankings for the 2013–14 European season. Thus the runners-up is no longer qualified to the Champions League. The eleventh placed teams will play a promotion/relegation play-off against the second league's second-place finisher. A play-off was last played in 2006.
Teams
Team Location Arena Manager Amazon Grimstad Grimstad Levermyr Stadion Margunn Haugenes Arna-Bjørnar Bergen Arna Stadion Morten Kalvenes Fart Vang Fartbana Kattem Trondheim Åsheim kunstgress Steinar Mikkelsen Kolbotn Kolbotn Sofiemyr Stadion Kjell S. H. Wold Klepp Kleppe Klepp Stadion Knut Eriksen Lillestrøm Lillestrøm LSK-Hallen Ranveig Karlsen Røa Oslo Røa Kunstgress Geir Nordby Sandviken Bergen Stemmemyren idrettsplass Arne Møller Stabæk Bærum Nadderud Stadion Øyvind Eide Trondheims-Ørn Trondheim DnB NOR Arena Thomas Dahle Vålerenga Oslo Vallhall Arena Anita Waage
League table
Relegation play-offs Kattem had to face second league's second-place finisher Medkila in a two-legged play-off match for the right to play in the 2013 Toppserien. Kattem won the playoff, but subsequently withdrew their team from the league. Medkila were promoted to take their place in Toppserien.
Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals1 Isabell HerlovsenLSK Kvinner252 Ada HegerbergStabæk223 Cecilie PedersenLSK Kvinner194 Cathrine DyngvoldKlepp155 Lene MykjålandRøa136 Guro ReitenKattem11 Elise ThorsnesRøa Amalie EikelandArna-Bjørnar9 Melissa BjånesøySandviken10 Gry ImsKlepp
References
External links Season on soccerway.com