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Between 1977 and 1983 women's league football in Norway was organized on a county and regional basis. In 1984, three of these leagues, those representing Østlandet, Vestlandet and Trøndelag, merged to form the first national league. However, during the earliest seasons teams continued to play in three regional groups, each with ten teams, and the national title was decided by a play-off between the three group winners. In 1986, a fourth group representing Nord-Norge was added, and the number of teams in the league increased to forty. The league system was subsequently reorganized for the 1987 season. At the end of the 1986 season, thirty of the teams were relegated and formed into a Norwegian Second Division. The remaining ten teams formed a single nationwide First Division. The new First Division remained the top tier of Norwegian women's football until 1995.
With the establishment of the Eliteserien in 1996 the First Division became a second tier division. At the same time the original Norwegian Second Division formed in 1987 became the third tier. The First Division now featured 58 teams in six regional groups. For the 2001 season the First Division was greatly reduced in size and it once again became single nationwide division. It initially featured nine teams, gradually adding a tenth before expanding to twelve for the 2009 season.[1] All nineteen counties of Norway have been represented in the nationwide First Division since 2001; Østfold was the last county to be represented, when Sarpsborg 08 got promoted in 2010.
