1958–59 Norwegian Main League

The 1958–59 Hovedserien was the 15th completed season of top division football in Norway.

Hovedserien

Season	1958–59
Champions	Lillestrøm 1st title
Relegated	Asker Årstad Freidig Kapp
← 1957–58 1959–60 →

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Lillestrøm won the championship, their first league title.

Teams and locations

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.

Group A Team Ap. Location Årstad 7 Bergen Asker 8 Asker Brann 11 Bergen Eik 2 Tønsberg Fredrikstad 14 Fredrikstad Greåker 1 Sarpsborg Sandefjord BK 13 Sandefjord Viking 14 Stavanger

Group B Team Ap. Location Freidig 5 Trondheim Kapp 4 Østre Toten Larvik Turn 10 Larvik Lillestrøm 9 Lillestrøm Odd 12 Skien Raufoss 5 Raufoss Skeid 13 Oslo Strømmen 9 Strømmen

League tables

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Fredrikstad	14	8	6	0	34	14	+20	22	Qualification for the championship final
2	Eik	14	7	4	3	26	15	+11	18
3	Viking	14	7	3	4	25	17	+8	17
4	Sandefjord	14	4	4	6	19	21	−2	12
5	Brann	14	5	2	7	21	27	−6	12
6	Greåker	14	4	4	6	19	25	−6	12
7	Asker (R)	14	3	5	6	18	19	−1	11	Relegation to Landsdelsserien
8	Årstad (R)	14	3	2	9	12	36	−24	8

Source: RSSSF
(R) Relegated

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Lillestrøm (C)	14	9	1	4	36	25	+11	19	Qualification for the championship final
2	Larvik Turn	14	5	6	3	38	25	+13	16
3	Strømmen	14	5	6	3	27	20	+7	16
4	Skeid	14	6	3	5	28	18	+10	15
5	Raufoss	14	5	5	4	24	19	+5	15
6	Odd	14	5	3	6	23	29	−6	13
7	Freidig (R)	14	5	2	7	34	38	−4	12	Relegation to Landsdelsserien
8	Kapp (R)	14	2	2	10	19	55	−36	6

Source: RSSSF
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Group A

Home \ Away	ÅRS	ASK	SKB	EIK	FFK	GRE	SBK	VIK
Årstad		0–5	2–3	2–1	0–3	0–3	2–2	2–1
Asker	1–1		0–0	0–0	1–3	1–3	1–1	0–1
Brann	3–0	4–2		1–2	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–2
Eik	4–0	0–3	6–0		2–2	2–0	2–0	1–1
Fredrikstad	3–1	1–1	4–0	4–0		3–3	1–1	3–3
Greåker	0–2	1–0	0–4	1–1	1–1		3–2	2–4
Sandefjord BK	2–0	3–1	4–1	0–2	0–3	2–0		0–1
Viking	5–0	1–2	1–0	1–3	0–1	1–1	3–1

Source: NIFS.no
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group B

Home \ Away	FRE	KAP	LAR	LIL	ODD	RAU	SKD	STR
Freidig		8–3	3–3	1–3	4–2	2–0	1–4	3–1
Kapp	1–5		0–7	5–2	0–2	1–0	1–2	1–1
Larvik Turn	0–0	10–2		2–4	5–1	1–1	1–4	3–1
Lillestrøm	3–2	3–1	0–1		6–1	7–1	1–0	2–0
Odd	4–2	6–1	0–0	1–2		2–1	0–5	0–0
Raufoss	4–0	1–0	5–1	5–2	1–1		3–0	1–1
Skeid	4–0	6–1	2–2	0–0	0–3	0–0		0–3
Strømmen	6–3	2–2	2–2	5–1	2–0	1–1	2–1

Source: NIFS.no
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship final

• Lillestrøm - Fredrikstad: 2-2 (AET), 4-1 (Replay)

References

• Norway - List of final tables (RSSSF)