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Football is the biggest sport in terms of people playing it. But unlike in Scotland, football got big competition from other sports when it comes to interest and hence also sponsor and media money. Mainly winter sports. But It's still the biggest. Also, Norwegian football fans tends to be very anglophile. And about 80 000 Norwegians travel to England every year to watch matches. This has to do with our history. The state TV-channel NRK, which was the only TV-channel until 1987, started sending English league matches every Saturday in 1969 and that didn't stop until 1999. Norwegian league matches wasn't sent live on TV until the late 80's. Also, in the 90's there was a lot of Norwegians playing in the Premier League. While the Norwegian league was kind of boring with Rosenborg winning it 13 years in a row from 1992 to 2004. So it wasn't to hard for a young Norwegian to become more interested in English football than Norwegian football. The English supporter clubs of Norway has over 100 000 members. While Norwegian supporter clubs barely has 25 000 members.

Football is the biggest sport in terms of people playing it. But unlike in Scotland, football got big competition from other sports when it comes to interest and hence also sponsor and media money. Mainly winter sports. But It's still the biggest. Also, Norwegian football fans tends to be very anglophile. And about 80 000 Norwegians travel to England every year to watch matches. This has to do with our history. The state TV-channel NRK, which was the only TV-channel until 1987, started sending English league matches every Saturday in 1969 and that didn't stop until 1999. Norwegian league matches wasn't sent live on TV until the late 80's. Also, in the 90's there was a lot of Norwegians playing in the Premier League. While the Norwegian league was kind of boring with Rosenborg winning it 13 years in a row from 1992 to 2004. So it wasn't to hard for a young Norwegian to become more interested in English football than Norwegian football. The English supporter clubs of Norway has over 100 000 members. While Norwegian supporter clubs barely has 25 000 members.

Airport Express Coach marked "Flybussen" leaves from the city square at 03:05. Then you're at the Airport 03:52.

Then you're better of taking one of the buses. That's if your'e lazy like me. I live about one hour outside the city. With limited ways to get home should I take a glass or two. If I lived in the city I would love to take a glass or two and have a chat. But won't have the possibility sadly.

Rosenborg was founded by some teenagers as SK Odd in 1917 named after Odd BK of Skien who was the dominating team in Norway at that time. When SK Odd wanted to join the NFF in 1927, NFF decided that they didn't want two clubs with the same name. And forced SK Odd to change name. They took the name Rosenborg after the part of town where the founders grew up and club was founded.

As a short fun fact, Rosenborg won it's first title in 1960 beating their former idols Odd BK in the cup final.

So in short, Rosenborg is an area in Trondheim.

That's a tricky one to be honest. Most public transport in these areas are going to and from Oslo. So you'll have to travel via Oslo. Using train it takes 55 minutes from Rygge to Oslo Central Station. And then about 2 hours from Oslo to Torp. So at least 3 hours. And probably 3 and a half hour considering waiting time in Oslo. Buses might be faster. And if so, I would look into Rygge Express and Torp Express.

If you have the chance I would recommend replacing either Rygge or Torp with Gardermoen. Being the main hub for Oslo it got much better transport services.

Yes. At least time wise.

Route
 
Take north on E6. On the northern exit of Moss you'll see signs to E18 Horten as well as a ferry sign. 
Ferry leaves every 15 minutes and costs 107 NOK for car and driver. And an additional 37 NOK for every passenger.
Once you leave the ferry follow signs to E18.
Go south once you reach E18 and you'll see sign to Torp after about 25 km.

No problem catching it. But I guess you'd prefer to wait at Gardermoen. And not Torp or Oslo Central Station. And that might be kind of tricky.

Jump on Torpexpressen leaving at 22:10.
You're scheduled to arrive at Oslo Central Station at 23:55.
The Airport Express Train leaves at 00:00. So that might be hard.
While the Airport bus leaves at 00:05.
If you miss those two you'll have to wait until the next airport bus leaves at 04:10 or the Airport Express Train at 04:40.

Because Norwegian teams (including Rosenborg), hasn't performed good enough in European matches from 2007-2011. No teams in the group stage in both 2009 and 2011. Rosenborg only team in group stage in both 2008 and 2010. Only two draws in 2008 and only one win in 2010. 2007 was a decent season tough. With both Rosenborg and Brann advancing from the group stage. Rosenborg through the CL beating Valencia twice and drawing against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Brann through the UEFA Cup. But one decent season doesn't compensate for four bad seasons afterwards. With two of them being very bad.

Next season the third placed in Scotland will start in the first round as well. And unless a good season from Scottish teams this season. The third placed will have to start in the first round in the 2015-16 season as well.