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The Best League In Scandinavia & the Nordic countries? Norway/Sweden/Denmark/Finland?

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#1 ·
The Best League In Scandinavia & the Nordic countries? Norway/Sweden/Denmark/Finland?

Which is the best league overall in Scandanavia (excluding Royal League!)? I velieve it is Norway due the amount of foreign players they have and experienced and still young quality Norweigen players such as Flo, Iversen, Johnsen, Ludvigsen, Holm, Gashi, Solli, etc....
What are your views?
 
#3 ·
BTW, does anybody know average attendance figures for the top two teams in Norway (Valerenga and Rosenborg), top 2 in Denmark (Brondby & Copenhagen) and top 2 in Sweden (Djurgardens & Goteborgs)? (2005 seasons)
 
#4 ·
Does 1 league have overall better finances than the others? who are the richest teams in scandinavia? im guessin Rosenborg, Valerenga, Lyn, Brondy, FC Copenhagen, Djurgardens and Goteborgs?
 
#5 ·
Faroe Islands :pp
 
#6 ·
Agree with Fredrik. It is pretty equal, ecept Finland who are on a lower level. Its about the same as compere the English, Italian and Spanish leagues, poeple got their favorite and will claim "their" league is the strongest.

Averange attendance for Rosenborg is 17494 and 15982 for VĂĄlerenga, dont know what Danish and Swedish teams got but I heard that Norway got the biggest overall attendance in the league this year.

I think FC København is the riches club before Rosenborg. The Norwegian clubs have got more money latly becouse of the new TV rights. And some of the clubs have got rick "oncels" to support them.
 
#9 ·
Pumba said:
wel norwyas league is a bit of a 1 man band

ie Rosenborg have no real competion
Quite to the contrary, RBK are in the middle of nowhere this season.

Sweden: MFF 17274, Djurgaarden 14306 (with a total of 6 clubs in 5 digit figures).

Denmark: FCK 15854 (1 game so far and below their normal crowd size), Bröndby 13197 (also well below their standards so far).
 
#10 · (Edited)
The leauges are pretty even, and all of them have improved this season.


These are the average attendance numbers in Norway and the overall average is about 9 500 (which mean it's the league with the best average in Scandinavia) :

Rosenborg 17 494 (8)
VĂĄlerenga 15 982 (7)
Brann 15 155 (8)
Viking 13 449 (8)
Aalesund 10 594 (8) - which is about the same as the capacity
Start 9 020(8)
Fredrikstad 8 851 (8)
Lillestrøm 8 189 (8)
Molde 6 674 (8)
Lyn 6 665 (8)
Ham-Kam 5 447 (8)
Tromsø 5 161(8)
Odd Grenland 4 883 (8)
Bodø/Glimt 4 610 (8)

(x)=number of games played at home


I find it funny that people say Rosenborg supporters are glory hunters... We have the best average ever this season...
 
#11 ·
Fanx for the avg attendance figures guys! And how can Puma say tht Norway is a one man band! Is he stuck in the 90s? Valerenga definately have a better team than Rosenborg with Flo, Iversen, Gashi, Hoseth, Johnsen, Skiri, Muri, Ishizaki, etc... and there is also the surprise package - Start!
 
#16 ·
Vaughany Quote: Fanx for the avg attendance figures guys! And how can Puma say tht Norway is a one man band! Is he stuck in the 90s? Valerenga definately have a better team than Rosenborg with Flo, Iversen, Gashi, Hoseth, Johnsen, Skiri, Muri, Ishizaki, etc... and there is also the surprise package - Start!

Wow, someone in England apart from me has heard of Start!
 
#18 ·
The richest league in Scandinavia is the Danish by a mile, mainly due to FCK alone.
 
#20 ·
It's not that easy Numerodix. :D

Take for instance Brøndby and FCK. Brøndby won the Danish championship with 12 points to FCK. FCK won the Royal League, and Brøndby didn't even make it from the first group phase. Is FCK then better than the Danish Champions?
 
#22 ·
At the moment it's a tight race between the swedish league and the danish league.
 
#24 ·
Wakky said:
At the moment it's a tight race between the swedish league and the danish league.
what makes you say that? I think there is little between the big three. Sweden should teoretically be the biggest due to the difference between out countries, but we are not. If anything I think we have the most even table with the most teams able to win it which can be seen on how many teams that won it since the dominance of IFK Gothenburg. Not to forget that it doesn't looke like any team will dominate this year either.
 
#25 ·
The Finnish teams are also equal with the mid-table sides in the other Scandi leagues but the top teams like VIF, RBK, FCK, Bröndby are a step above the rest. HJK Helsinki can compete with most of the Scandi teams and have shown that by playing in the 1998 Champions League first group stage.
 
#26 · (Edited)
lionheart said:
The Finnish teams are also equal with the mid-table sides in the other Scandi leagues but the top teams like VIF, RBK, FCK, Bröndby are a step above the rest. HJK Helsinki can compete with most of the Scandi teams and have shown that by playing in the 1998 Champions League first group stage.
After having moved to bottom table AGF, Finnish Tuomas Aho said that ther was a big difference/step up in quality of players and in pace and quality at training at AGF and in the Danish league in compare with what he had been used to at MyPa in Finland. He also said that it would take some time for him to adjust to the higher pace... He's btw still not quite good enough to be a regular at AGF...

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