Norway at the FIFA Women's World Cup

[1] For the World Cup in the neighboring country the Norwegians qualified as semi-finalist of the European Championship 1995.

In the Qualification, Norway won five wins and a draw against Finland, Hungary and Czech Republic.

Final opponent was Germany and in the pouring rain, Hege Riise and Marianne Pettersen made the decision for the Norwegians shortly before half-time.

[3] Already with the entry into the quarterfinals, Norway had also qualified for the first women's football tournament at the Olympic Games 1996 in which only the eight best teams of the World Cup could participate.

For the third World Cup, UEFA then set up separate qualifiers for the first time and to date the only continental association.

Germany, which had lost except in Norway also in the Netherlands, qualified for the playoffs of the runners-up against Ukraine also for the World Cup finals.

In the quarter-finals Sweden was again the opponent and Norway reached the semi-finals with a 3–1 win for the third time in a row.

Due to the subsequent final, no extra time was played and immediately a penalty shoot-out set, which Brazil won 5: 4.

Fourth, however, Norway had qualified for the women's football tournament at the Olympic Games 2000 alongside the host Australia only the seven best teams in the World Cup could participate.

With the quarter-finals, Norway had also missed the qualification for the women's football tournament at the Olympic Games alongside the host Greece only the two best European Teams of the World Cup could participate, which Norway had no chance to defend the title as Olympic champion.

[10] Germany was then able to win the final against Brazil and be the first team to defend the world title and remain without conceding in the tournament.

Norway, however, lost the third/fourth place play-off against the United States with 1: 4 and thus for the first time in a World Cup three games.

[11] However, with the semi-final draw, Norway had secured the qualification for the women's football tournament at the Olympic Games, which was only attended by the three best European teams in the World Cup.

For the World Cup in Germany qualifying the Norwegians won with seven wins and a draw against the Netherlands, Belarus, Slovakia and Macedonia.

With the 4: 0 on the penultimate round in Slovakia, Norway qualified ahead of schedule for the play-offs of the group winners, which were necessary this time.

In Germany, Norway was wound up in a group with World Cup freshman Equatorial Guinea, runner-up Brazil and Australia.

In the first game against the World Cup newcomer, the Norwegians did a long time hard and came only in the 84th minute to redeeming 1: 0, which then remained.

As the Australians had the better goal difference, this draw was enough for them to move into the quarter-finals, so Norway pushed for the winner, but had to accept the 1: 2 in the 87th minute and could not compensate this.

Thus Norway dropped out for the first time in the preliminary round and thus could not qualify for the women's football tournament at the Olympic Games 2012 in which only the two best European teams in the World Cup and Britain could participate as hosts.

The Norwegians started 3–0 against Nigeria, losing 2–1 to France and securing second place with a 2–1 win against South Korea.