Women’s association football First Division was formed in Norway in 1984, when the league was divided into three regions, as no teams from Northern-Norway (Nord-Norge) played: Group Eastern-Norway (Østlandet), Group Western-Norway (Vestlandet), and Group Mid-Norway (Trøndelag). The winners of the three groups met each other for a play-off. In 1986, a group for Northern-Norway was added, and in 1987, the groups and play-off matches were dropped: a single league with teams from all over the country was played. The league was known as ‘1. divisjon’ (Norwegian for 1st Division) from 1984 to 1995, the ‘Eliteserien’ (Norwegian for The Elite League) from 1996 to 1999, and the ‘Toppserien’ (Norwegian for The Top League) from 2000. Traditionally, Trondheims-Ørn and Asker was the two power-houses of Toppserien, with 7 and 6 championship wins respectively. Trondheims-Ørn finished in the top three 16 out of 23 times from the beginning in 1984 to their current last medal in 2006. However Asker FK, the women’s team within Asker Fotball, became bankrupt at the end of 2008 and most of the players were transferred to a new team within the nearby Stabæk IF, named Stabæk FK (FK = Fotball Kvinner (Football Women)). Asker finished among the top three 18 out of the 25 seasons the club existed. The new Stabæk team began playing in the Toppserien from the 2009 season and won the league in 2010 and 2013. Røa won Toppserien five times from 2004 to 2011. Lillestrøm SK Kvinner won six consecutive titles from 2014 to 2019. In February 2020, the club Trondheims-Ørn merged with the men’s football club Rosenborg BK and the name was changed from SK Trondheims-Ørn to ‘Rosenborg BK Kvinner’.
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