Norway Cup is an international youth football tournament which has been hold annually since 1972, except in 1976, in Oslo, Norway. It is the world's second-largest football tournament, after Gothia Cup, and sees a typical 1400 to 1600 participating teams per year. Norway cup consists of tournaments for ages 10 through 19 for both genders, with 43,141 teams having participated between 1972 and 2009. The tournament takes place at Ekebergsletta.
The tournament is organized by Bækkelagets Sportsklub with Frode Kyvåg as its general secretary. Participants come from 50 to 60 counties. Amazon Grimstad won the first Norway Cup tournament for girls. The team won 2–1 over Vestar, after a penalty shoot-out. In 2012, Norway Cup starts on 29 July and runs through to 4 August.
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“Such was the very armor he had on
When he the ambitious Norway combated.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left for the others.”
—Elizabeth Fishel (20th century)