About Norway

The Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) was founded on 30 April 1902, when 14 delegates from three clubs met at the Hotel Bristol in Oslo and voted to establish the association. Norway joined FIFA in 1908 and became a UEFA member in 1954. With 1,814 clubs and over 373,000 registered players, the NFF is Norway's largest sports federation, headquartered in Oslo.

Norwegian women's football has achieved remarkable international success. The national women's team won the FIFA Women's World Cup in 1995 in Sweden and claimed Olympic gold at the 2000 Sydney Games. They also won the UEFA Women's Championship in 1987 and 1993, establishing Norway as one of the founding powers of the women's game. Players such as Hege Riise and Ann Kristin Aarønes were central to these triumphs.

The men's team had its finest era in the 1990s, qualifying for three consecutive World Cups (1994, 1998, 2002 as co-hosts) and producing players of the calibre of Ronny Johnsen, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, and Tore André Flo. More recently, Erling Haaland has emerged as one of the world's best strikers, though Norway has yet to translate individual talent into consistent tournament qualification. Lise Klaveness has served as NFF president since 2022.