Norwegian First Division table 2026 season: Norway, points and home and away records

Norwegian First Division table: how to read points and goal difference

The gap from top to bottom is 24 points. Stabæk lead on 39 with a difference of +29; Strømmen sit last on 15. Stabæk and Kongsvinger are level on points, with goal difference deciding first place.

Haugesund score most with 57 goals. Stabæk defend best, conceding 19, while Ranheim have shipped 45 — the spread between those two says how uneven the league is at the back.

A club takes 1.42 points per match on average and scores 34.8 goals across the season. The median is 26 points (Egersund), with 6 clubs above it. The median describes a league better than the mean does: one runaway side pulls the mean up and barely moves the median.

The drop zone is 3 points from safety: Moss sit 13th on 18, against Strømmen on 15. Those are the numbers that decide the closing weeks.

Norwegian First Division home and away: split points

The Norwegian First Division table recomputes separately for home fixtures and for away ones. They are the same matches split by venue, so points in the two tables always sum back to the overall one.

Strømsgodset take the most at home, 20 points from 8 matches, while Haugesund lead away on 18 — more often different clubs than you would expect.

Egersund depend on their ground most: 19 points at home against 4 away, a gap of 15. Haugesund show the smallest split at -2. Across the league a club takes 5.8 more points at home than away.

Norwegian First Division: goals, averages and difference

Across 129 matches the league has produced 557 goals, 3.76 per game. Home sides win 54% of the time, both teams score in 60%, and 73% finish over 2.5.

Hødd carry the flattest goal difference at 0 — clubs on those numbers usually sit mid-table, equally far from the title and the drop.

How the Norwegian First Division table looked in earlier seasons is in the archive: Norway, year by year, with final tables for every division and zone.

Norwegian First Division: division size and what it changes

The size of a division changes how its figures read. With 16 clubs each plays 18 matches, and a run of three or four results moves a position further than it would in a league twice the size: the sample is smaller, so chance weighs more.

For the same reason the points gap between neighbouring places tends to be narrower here and the middle of the table reorders more often. Goal difference is especially useful in a division this size, because it accumulates across every match and depends less on who a club happened to face recently.

Comparing this division with others on absolute numbers — goals scored, points taken — means little where the number of rounds differs. What compares is the relative measures: points per match, scoring rate, the share of draws.

Norway: the divisions and where Norwegian First Division sits

We cover 2 divisions in Norway. Above this one sit Eliteserien.

Strømsgodset have drawn most at 5, Haugesund fewest at 1. Lyn defend best on the road, conceding 9 away from home.

Norwegian First Division: match results and head-to-head

The widest result of the season is Strømmen against Haugesund, 0-7, a margin of 7. The highest-scoring match is Strømsgodset against Ranheim at 5-4, 9 goals in all.

20 of 129 matches ended level, 16%. The draw rate is among the steadiest numbers a league produces: it moves less from season to season than goals scored or final positions do.

Any two clubs can be compared in the panel alongside, which reads the same results grid the home and away tables are computed from.