Norway B would for the next two decades play two to four annual games, predominantly against the B-teams of Sweden and Denmark, and from 1951 Finland B.

[1] Norway entered its B-team for the annual, four-nation Torneio Vale do Tejo in Portugal in January 2002.

Norway finished last in the tournament after advancing losing a penalty shootout to Romania B after 2–2 at the end of extra time.

The last time the Norway B team was deployed took place on 6 March 2002, in a 1–0 victory over Denmark B at Brøndby Stadion in Copenhagen.

"The emergency national team"), after the players and coaches that were originally supposed to play in the match were all sent in quarantine five days earlier after Omar Elabdellaoui tested positive for COVID-19,[3] and a new squad had to be set up in just five days with a whole new player squad and coaching staff, who all received full A caps for playing in the match.