The Norway women's national football team represents Norway on the women's side in association football. Norway won the 1987 and 1993 UEFA Women's Championships. They won the FIFA Women's World Cup in 1995. They won a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Norway women's national football team
History
Norway played their first international match in the fifth edition of the Nordic women's football championship, but lost all three games against their Scandinavian neighbours, who had been hosting internationals since 1973 and 1974 respectively. They also failed to win in 1979. It was not until the unofficial European Championship in 1979 that the first victory was achieved against Northern Ireland. However, as the second match against Italy was lost, the Norwegians were eliminated after the preliminary round. In the following two Nordic championships they managed three draws in six matches. In 1981 BUL Oslo participated in the Women's World Invitation Tournament in the Republic of China (Taiwan) and finished fourth. Some of the matches, some of which were against other club teams, are counted as official Norway internationals by FIFA, but are not counted by the NFF. Norway failed to qualify for the first European Football Championship, but managed to win the title at the second staging in 1987. In 1988, Norway won the Women's FIFA Invitational Tournament in China, establishing themselves among the top teams in women's football.
Tournament Record
World Cup
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Norway are one of three European teams to have participated in all World Cup tournaments. In 1995 they became the first European team to win the World Cup in neighbouring Sweden after losing to the USA in the final four years earlier. They reached the semi-finals twice more after that. In 2011, Norway were eliminated in the preliminary round of a World Cup for the first time after losing to Brazil and Australia. Only a win against World Cup newcomers Equatorial Guinea was achieved, but they failed to score more than one goal. The early exit saw Norway drop back to 10th in the FIFA world rankings.
| Year | Result | Trainer | Most games | Most goals |
| 1991 | Second place | Even Pellerud | 09 players with 6 games | Linda Medalen (6) |
| 1995 | World Champion | Even Pellerud | 09 players with 6 games | Ann Kristin Aarønes (6), top scorer |
| 1999 | Fourth place | Per-Mathias Høgmo | 07 players with 6 games | Ann Kristin Aarønes (4) |
| 2003 | Quarterfinals | Åge Steen | 11 players with 6 games | Dagny Mellgren (3) |
| 2007 | Fourth place | Bjarne Berntsen | 07 players with 6 games | Ragnhild Gulbrandsen (6) |
| 2011 | Preliminary round | Eli Landsem | 08 players with 3 games | Emilie Bosshard Haavi and Elise Thorsnes (1 each) |
| 2015 | Round of 16 | Even Pellerud | 08 players with 4 games | Ada Hegerberg (3) |
| 2019 | Quarterfinals | Martin Sjögren | 11 players with 5 games | Isabell Herlovsen (2) |
| All | Bente Nordby and Hege Riise (22 each) | Ann Kristin Aarønes (10) |
European Championship
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Olympics
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Nordic Championship
- 1978: Fourth
- 1979: Fourth
- 1980: Third
- 1981: Fourth
- 1982: Second
Algarve Cup
The national team took part in all editions of the Algarve Cup, in which almost all of the best women's national teams took part every year until 2015. They won the first edition and four others, making them the second most successful team in the tournament after the USA. However, a 10th-place finish in 2014 after four losses, with Norway the only team not to win a match, was their worst finish until 2017. In 2017, it was only enough to reach the 11th-place match, and in 2019, after 21 years without a title, they achieved their fifth success. In 2020, the 100th game was the third place.
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