Season trivia for Eliteserien 2019
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2019 Eliteserien season in Norway.
Best scoring couple
The players who were behind the most goals for their team in the 2019 season were the players Matthias Vilhjálmsson - Bård Finne (Vålerenga), Håkon Evjen - Erlend Dahl Reitan (Bodø/Glimt), Ohi Omoijuanfo - Eirik Hestad (Molde), Veton Berisha - Daouda Bamba (Brann), Ohi Omoijuanfo - Magnus Wolff Eikrem (Molde) and Amor Layouni - Ulrik Saltnes (Bodø/Glimt). Together they scored 4 goals for their teams, where one of the players scored the goal and the other one assisted to it.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2019 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Jens Petter Hauge, playing for Bodø/Glimt, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 7 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Rosenborg-Bodø/Glimt.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In May 2019, Ohi Omoijuanfo (Molde) scored 6 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2019 season.
Most braces by player
Most braces (at least two goals in a match) were scored 4 times during this season, and the players who managed that were these:
Torgeir Børven (Odd Grenland)
Leke James (Molde)
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2019 season was Håkon Evjen in Bodø/Glimt, in total he did it 7 times.
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Torgeir Børven in Odd Grenland during the 2019 season, in total he did this 9 times.
Most penalty goals by player
The title of the league's best penalty taker in 2019 was shared between 2 players, all of whom scored 4 penalties each, and these were Tonny Brochmann (Mjøndalen) and Tommy Høiland (Viking).
Most penalty goals by team
Bodø/Glimt was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2019 season, in total they scored 6 of their goals from penalties.
Most own goals by player
2 players share the less-than-honourable title of most own goals during the 2019 season in Eliteserien. These players each scored 2 own goals and they were Joackim Olsen Solberg (Mjøndalen) and Jakob Glesnes (Strømsgodset).
Most own goals by team
4 teams each scored 3 own goals, and the teams that were best at putting the ball into their own net were Kristiansund, Tromsø, Mjøndalen and Sarpsborg.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Amahl Pellegrino in Strømsgodset and Kristiansund scored in 5 consecutive matches during the 2019 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Ohi Omoijuanfo in Molde who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 9 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Torgeir Børven in Odd Grenland scored a total of 15 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Eliteserien during the 2019 season.
Most consecutive wins
There were 4 teams that had 4 consecutive wins in the 2019 season, and those teams were Odd Grenland, Bodø/Glimt, Kristiansund and Molde.
Most matches in a row without losing
Molde were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2019 season, playing 14 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
Tromsø had a streak of 5 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in Eliteserien during the 2019 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
Vålerenga managed the feat of not winning a single match in 12 consecutive matches during the 2019 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The teams that were best at trailing and then eventually winning the match were Odd Grenland and Rosenborg, and these teams turned the game around 4 times in total.
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