Football in Norway

Football (soccer) in Norway
National team(s)Norway national football team
First played1883; 141 years ago (1883)
National competitions
Club competitions
International competitions

Football is the most popular sport in Norway in terms of active membership (by television viewership football comes third, behind winter sports biathlon and cross-country skiing). The Football Association of Norway was founded in 1902 and the first international match was played in 1908. There are 1,822 registered football clubs and about 25,000 teams. There are 393,801 (104,597 of them are girls/women) registered football players,[1] which means that 8.5% of the population play organized football.[2][3]

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