Vålerenga Fotball Damer

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Vålerenga Fotball
Full name Vålerenga Fotball Damer
Ground Vallhall Arena
Oslo
(capacity: 5,000)
Chairman Odd Skarheim
Manager Cecilie Berg-Hansen
League Toppserien
2012 Toppserien, 8th
Home colours
Away colours

Vålerenga Fotball Damer is the women's football branch of Vålerenga Fotball. The team is playing in Toppserien.

The team first won promotion to Toppserien in 2011 after earning promotion from the First Division. This made Vålerenga the third Norwegian club with both a men's team and a women's team in the top-tier league, and the first club to have its own women's team promotion to Toppserien, ss the two other clubs, Stabæk Fotball and Lillestrøm SK, inherited another club's women's team.[1]

First team squad [edit]

As of 5 November 2012

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Norway GK Lill Yvonne Sten Karlsrud
2 Norway DF Silje Kronkvist
3 Norway MF Maria Arnesen
4 Norway DF Susanne Lillestøl Johnsen
5 Norway FW Cathrine Rolnes
6 Norway MF Tina Wulf
7 Norway FW Kristin Haugstad
8 Norway MF Solveig Gulbrandsen
9 Norway DF Hanne Mellingsæter
10 Norway FW Marte Øie Libach
11 Norway MF Rebecca Louise Angus
No. Position Player
14 Norway FW Kathrine Kronkvist
16 Norway MF Mari Kalmo
17 Norway FW Marianne Haugvik Hanssen
18 Norway FW Anna Marie Dammen Fjeld
19 Norway MF Line Benedicte Berntsen
20 Norway MF Line Nordeide Grønli
23 Norway FW Tone Løkås
24 Norway DF Sharon Christina Hansen
25 Norway DF Pernille Hermine Frostad Bakken
27 Norway DF Elisabeth Giske Bakken
30 Norway GK Christine Colombo Nilsen

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Vålerengas kvinnelag rykket opp til Toppserien" (in Norwegian). TV2. 8 October 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2012.