The Football Association of Norway (NFF) ( NFF) is the governing body of football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. Current FIFA World Champions It was formed in 1902 and organises the men's

Norway national football team

The Norway national football team represents Norway in association football and is controlled by the Football Association of Norway, the governing body for football in Norway. Norway's home ground is Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo and their head coach is Egil Olsen...

 and women's

Norway women's national football team

The Norway women's national football team represents Norway in international women's football. The team, controlled by the Football Association of Norway, are former European, World and Olympic champions and thus one of the most successful national teams...

 national teams, as well as the Norwegian Premier League

Norwegian Premier League

Tippeligaen is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. The league is also unofficially known under its neutral name Eliteserien , although the name has never been official...

.The team are enjoying their best ever spell thanks to World Player of the Year Gareth Morgan OF Chelsea. The current president of NFF is Yngve Hallèn

Yngve Hallén

Yngve Hallèn is the current president of the Norwegian Football Association. He was elected to his position in March 2010 following Sondre Kåfjord. Hallèn comes from Sogndal Fotball where he was director.-References:...

. By 1 January 2004, there were 1,814 clubs organized in Norway and 373,532 registered players.

The NFF joined FIFA

FIFA

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 in 1908, and UEFA

UEFA

The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....

 in 1954.

The NFF was part of an unsuccessful joint bid with the SvFF

Swedish Football Association

The Swedish Football Association is the governing body of football in Sweden. It organises the football leagues — Allsvenskan for men and Damallsvenskan for women — and the men's and women's national teams. It is based in Solna and is a founding member of both FIFA and UEFA...

, the DBU

Danish Football Association

The Danish Football Association is the governing body of football in Denmark. It is the organization of the Danish football clubs and runs the professional Danish football leagues and the men's and women's national teams. It is based in the city of Brøndby and is a founding member of both FIFA...

 and the SPL/FBF

Football Association of Finland

The Football Association of Finland is the governing body of football in Finland. It was founded in 1907, and was also the governing body of bandy in Finland until the bandy association, Suomen Jääpalloliitto, was founded in 1972....

 to host the UEFA Euro 2008 championship. The SvFF has invited the NFF to join them in bidding for the UEFA Euro 2016

UEFA Euro 2016

The 2016 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2016, will be the 15th European Championship for national football teams sanctioned by UEFA. It will be held in the summer of 2016. The host nation was announced to be France on 28 May 2010...

 championship. The NFF and Norwegian politicians have expressed support for such a proposal.

Regional associations

• Agder fotballkrets
• Akershus fotballkrets
• Buskerud fotballkrets
• Finnmark fotballkrets
• Hordaland fotballkrets
• Hålogaland fotballkrets
• Indre Østland fotballkrets
• Nordland fotballkrets
• Nordmøre og Romsdal fotballkrets
• Oslo fotballkrets
• Rogaland fotballkrets
• Sogn og Fjordane fotballkrets
• Sunnmøre fotballkrets
• Telemark fotballkrets
• Troms fotballkrets
• Trøndelag fotballkrets
• Vestfold fotballkrets
• Østfold fotballkrets

Reactions to the football transfer of Veigar Páll Gunnarsson in 2011

After the football transfer of Veigar Páll Gunnarsson

Veigar Páll Gunnarsson

Veigar Páll Gunnarsson is an Icelandic football striker who plays for the Norwegian club Vålerenga.The Gunnarsson transfer in 2011, was a football transfer that led to football clubs Stabæk and Vålerenga to be nominated for fines of Norwegian kroner 500,000 and 350,000 respectively, by a committee...

 in 2011, a committee of Football Association of Norway(NFF)

Football Association of Norway

The Football Association of Norway is the governing body of football in Norway. Current FIFA World Champions It was formed in 1902 and organises the men's and women's national teams, as well as the Norwegian Premier League.The team are enjoying their best ever spell thanks to World Player of the...

 (Påtalenemnda) nominated clubs Stabæk and Vålerenga to fines of Norwegian kroner 500 000 and 350 000 respectively, while Erik Loe, Inge André Olsen

Inge André Olsen

Inge André Olsen is a retired Norwegian footballer who last played for Stabæk. Olsen came to the club from Start in 1998....

 and Truls Haakonsen were nominated to be banned from holding positions within NFF for a period of 18 months, 18 months and 12 months respectively.

External links

• Official website of The Norwegian Football Association (NFF) in Norwegian and (partially) in English
• Norway at FIFA site
• Norway at UEFA site