The tournament is a melting pot with youths from the four corners of the world meeting fellow footballers and making new friends. Norway Cup is open to all clubs, who is affiliated through FIFA via their National Football Associations.
Norway Cup 2012 will take place Sunday July 29th - Saturday August 4th. Roughly 30.000 players and team leaders meet every year for a week of tournament and games, excanging culture and meeting new friends.
Invitation to Norway Cup 2012
Information in English
Playing system
Norway Cup is preparing a major change before the tournament in 2012. The change will affect the playoffs in the tournament. ALL teams will advance to playoffs. This means that, in group stages of four teams, the top two teams advance to the tournament's A-playoffs. The last two teams in the group stage will go on to the B-playoffs. Norway Cup will through this change offer the teams more games in the tournament. All teams in the tournament will be offered at least one playoff game.
The Colorful Unity
is one of the causes closest to the heart of Norway Cup. It all started in 1979 with the Brazilian team Pequeninos do Jockey from Sao Paulo. Their first team arriving in Oslo consisted of street children from the slum. Today Pequeninos do Jockey is the most winning club in the history of Norway Cup with 17 gold medals.
In the eighties Norway Cup joined the Norwegian Football Association in a relief project in Tanzania. It was one of the first sports projects in the third world, and the work were aimed at disabled persons. In 1989 came another new project, Mathare Youth Sport Association from Kenya. It all began with 15-20 youths from the slums of Nairobi. Today it is a movement with more than 16 000 youths that participate in more than just football, for instance the fight against HIV/aids. The club has been nominated to the Nobel’s Peace prize two years in a row for their work combining football with community life! One of the proudest moments in the history of Norway Cup was in 1995. For the first time ever a team from Israel played against a team from Palestine on a sporting arena – of course at the Ekeberg fields.
Norway Cup webpage