| Club: | Start |
| Season: | 2013 |
| Manager: | Mons Ivar Mjelde |
| Mgrtitle: | Manager |
| Chairman: | Magne Kristiansen |
| Chrtitle: | Chairman |
| Stadium: | Sør Arena |
| League: | Tippeligaen |
| League Result: | 9th |
| Cup1: | Norwegian Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Quarter-finals vs Lillestrøm |
| League Topscorer: | Matthías Vilhjálmsson (11) |
| Season Topscorer: | Matthías Vilhjálmsson (14) |
| Highest Attendance: | 6,737 vs Vålerenga 19 April 2013 |
| Lowest Attendance: | 2,150 vs Stabæk 19 June 2013 |
| Average Attendance: | 5,825 |
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| Prevseason: | 2012 |
| Nextseason: | 2014 |
The Norwegian football club IK Start returned to the top league Tippeligaen for the 2013 season. It was their second full season with Mons Ivar Mjelde as manager, and they finished the season in 9th place. They also took part in the Norwegian Cup, reaching the quarter-finals stage before being beaten by Lillestrøm.
As of 1 February 2013.[1]
See main article: List of Norwegian football transfers winter 2012–13. In:[2] Out: [3] [4]
See main article: List of Norwegian football transfers summer 2013. In:[5] Out:
See main article: 2013 Tippeligaen.
See main article: 2013 Norwegian Football Cup.
|-|colspan=14|Players away from Start on loan:|-|colspan=14|Players who left Start during the season:|}
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=200 | Name | width=80 | Tippeligaen | width=100 | Norwegian Cup | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW |  | 18 | 11 | 3 | 14 | |||||||||
| 2 | FW | 11 | 6 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||||
| FW |  | 8 | 6 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4 | FW |  | 9 | 6 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
| 5 | DF | 15 | Bismark Acosta | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
| 6 | DF | | 28 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
| MF | | 17 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 8 | DF | | 26 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| DF |  | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 0 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 11 | MF | | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| MF | | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| TOTALS | 43 | 9 | 52 | ||||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Tippeligaen | Norwegian Cup | Total | |||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | GK | Håkon Opdal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2 | | DF | Glenn Andersen | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 5 | | DF | Markus Heikkinen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 6 |  | MF | Babacar Sarr | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | ||
| 8 | | FW | Espen Hoff | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 9 | | FW | Ernest Asante | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 10 | MF | Solomon Owello | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | |||
| 11 | FW | Jorge Castro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 14 | | MF | Espen Børufsen | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 15 | DF | Bismark Acosta | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |||
| 17 | | MF | Guðmundur Kristjánsson | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||
| 18 | | FW | Matthías Vilhjálmsson | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 26 | | DF | Jesper Mathisen | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 28 | | DF | Rolf Daniel Vikstøl | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 33 | | DF | Amin Nouri | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| TOTALS | 47 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 53 | 2 | |||||