Norway Cup - world's largest youth soccer tournament

Info

Norway Cup is the largest fotball tournament in the world for children and youths. It will be organised in Oslo 29th July - 5th August 2017.

Historie

Norway Cup is the world’s largest football tournament for children and young people aged 10 to 19 years old, with 3v3 soccer for players 6-10 years old played the last weekend of the tournament. In 2016 we reached an all time high with 2199 teams participating in Norway Cup. Around 6000 games were played over the course of the tournament in 2016.

Norway Cup is organized by Bækkelagets Sportklub and it all started in 1972 with 420 teams and 8,400 participants.

Overall through the years, participants, players and referees from 126 nations have participated. In addition, Norway Cup is by many considered to be women’s football cradle in Norway. We have had girls teams participate from the start with eight girls teams taking part in 1972. This was four years before the Norwegian Football Association officially recognized women’s football.

1600 of Bækkelagets Sportsklubs over 2800 members volunteer during Norway Cup. This amounts to over 60,000 volunteer hours in total each year. Both young and old work to make this a wonderful football party in Oslo to remember. The youngest is five and the oldest, Norway Cups grandmother, (Rigmor Andresen) will turn 95 in 2017. In addition, more than 600 volunteers from our co-organizers (Lyn, Furuset, Rustad, Abildsø, Skeid and Vålerenga) help create the world’s biggest football tournament.