Norway enters the World Cup again after 27 years, Haaland and Odegaard welcome their first national team competition in their careers

In the 6th round of Group I of the European Group Stage of the World Cup Qualifiers on November 17, Norway went 4-1 away to Italy. As expected, Italy failed to achieve a miraculous comeback in the World Cup. Norway locked its place in the 2026 World Cup in the final round.

In this World Cup preliminaries, Norway won all 8 games, scored 37 goals and only conceded 5 goals, ranking first in Group I with an absolute advantage.

This will be the fourth time in the history of the Norwegian team to participate in the World Cup. In the previous three times, they failed in the group stage once and stopped in the top 16 twice. The last time Norway participated in a world series was the 2000 European Cup, and the last time it participated in a World Cup was in the 1998 World Cup.