| Club: | Vålerenga |
| Season: | 2020 |
| Chairman: | Thomas Baardseng |
| Manager: | Dag-Eilev Fagermo |
| Stadium: | Intility Arena |
| League: | Eliteserien |
| League Result: | 3rd |
| Cup1: | Norwegian Cup |
| League Topscorer: | Viðar Kjartansson (9) |
| Season Topscorer: | Viðar Kjartansson (9) |
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| Prevseason: | 2019 |
| Nextseason: | 2021 |
The 2020 season was Vålerenga's nineteenth season in the Eliteserien since their promotion in 2001.
Prior to the start of the season, Osame Sahraoui, Brage Skaret and Brede Sandmoen were promoted from the youth team.[1] [2]
On 31 January, Dag-Eilev Fagermo was appointed as Vålerenga's manager after Ronny Deila had left for New York City earlier in the month.[3]
On 12 June, the Norwegian Football Federation announced that a maximum of 200 home fans would be allowed to attend the upcoming seasons matches.[4]
On 8 June, Fredrik Holmé was promoted to the Vålerenga first team.[5]
On 30 September, the Minister of Culture and Gender Equality, Abid Raja, announced that clubs would be able to have crowds of 600 at games from 12 October.[6]
See main article: List of Norwegian football transfers winter 2019–20 and List of Norwegian football transfers summer 2020.
| Date | Position | Nationality | Name | From | Fee | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 February 2020 | MF |  | Fredrik Jensen | Zulte Waregem | Undisclosed | [7] | |
| 23 June 2020 | FW | | Benjamin Stokke | Randers | Undisclosed | [8] | |
| 28 August 2020 | FW |  | Viðar Örn Kjartansson | Rostov | Undisclosed | [9] | |
| 8 September 2020 | MF | | Henrik Bjørdal | Zulte Waregem | Undisclosed | [10] |
| Date | Position | Nationality | Name | To | Fee | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 January 2020 | FW | | Fitim Azemi | Stabæk/Grorud | Undisclosed | [11] | |
| 18 January 2020 | MF | | Samúel Friðjónsson | Paderborn | Undisclosed | [12] | |
| 21 January 2020 | DF | | Leo Cornic | Grorud | Undisclosed | [13] | |
| 16 March 2020 | MF |  | Erik Israelsson | Kalmar | Undisclosed | [14] | |
| 1 October 2020 | FW | Peter Godly Michael | Sogndal | Undisclosed | [15] |
| Date from | Position | Nationality | Name | to | Date to | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 February 2020 | MF | | Sakarias Opsahl | Tromsø | End of season | [16] | |
| 3 March 2020 | MF |  | Mohammed Abu | D.C. United | End of season | [17] | |
| 1 June 2020 | MF | | Brede Sandmoen | Strømmen | End of season | [18] | |
| 26 June 2020 | FW | Peter Godly Michael | Øygarden | 1 October 2020 | [19] |
| Date | Position | Nationality | Name | Joined | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 December 2019 | DF | Pierre Kanstrup | SønderjyskE | |||
| 28 December 2019[20] | DF |  | Efraín Juárez | Retired | 9 January 2020[21] | |
| 28 December 2019 | MF | | Mohammed Fellah | |||
| 31 December 2019 | DF | | Markus Nakkim | Mjøndalen | ||
| 3 August 2020[22] | GK | | Adam Larsen Kwarasey | |||
| 8 September 2020[23] | FW | Deyver Vega | Sandefjord | 10 September 2020[24] |
See main article: 2020 Eliteserien.
See main article: 2020 Norwegian Football Cup.
|-|colspan="14"|Players away from Vålerenga on loan:|-|colspan="14"|Players who left Vålerenga during the season|}
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=200 | Name | width=200 | Eliteserien | width=200 | Norwegian Cup | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW | | 24 | Viðar Kjartansson | 9 | 0 | 9 | ||||||||
| 2 | FW | | 11 | Bård Finne | 8 | 0 | 8 | ||||||||
| MF | | 9 | Aron Dønnum | 8 | 0 | 8 | |||||||||
| 4 | FW | | 10 | Matthías Vilhjálmsson | 6 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
| 5 | MF |  | 26 | Osame Sahraoui | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||
| 6 | FW | | 20 | Benjamin Stokke | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||
| MF | | 7 | Henrik Bjørdal | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
| 8 | MF | 6 | Herolind Shala | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| DF | | 22 | Ivan Näsberg | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| Own goal | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 11 | FW | 7 | Deyver Vega | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| MF | | 14 | Fredrik Jensen | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| DF | | 2 | Christian Borchgrevink | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| FW | | 15 | Odin Holm | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| TOTALS | 51 | 0 | 51 | ||||||||||||
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=200 | Name | width=200 | Eliteserien | width=200 | Norwegian Cup | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | | 13 | Kristoffer Klaesson | 9 | 0 | 9 | ||||||||
| 2 | GK | | 1 | Kjetil Haug | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| TOTALS | 10 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Eliteserien | Norwegian Cup | Total | |||||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | GK | Kjetil Haug | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 2 | | DF | Christian Borchgrevink | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| 3 | | DF | Johan Bjørdal | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 4 | | DF | Jonatan Tollås | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 6 | MF | Herolind Shala | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| 8 | | MF | Magnus Lekven | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 9 | | MF | Aron Dønnum | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| 10 | | FW | Matthías Vilhjálmsson | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 13 | | GK | Kristoffer Klaesson | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| 14 | | MF | Fredrik Jensen | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 15 | | FW | Odin Holm | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 17 | MF | Ousmane Camara | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 20 | | FW | Benjamin Stokke | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 22 | | DF | Ivan Näsberg | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 23 | | MF | Felix Myhre | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 25 |  | DF | Sam Adekugbe | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| 26 | | MF | Osame Sahraoui | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Players who left Vålerenga during the season: | |||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 46 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 3 | |||||||