Norway Cup is the largest International Football Tournament in the world for Youths commencing in Oslo week 31 every year. The tournament is a melting pot with youths from the four corners of the world meeting fellow footballers and making friends.

The Colorful Unity
is one of the causes closest to the heart of Norway Cup. It all started in 1979 with the Brazilian team Pequeninos do Jockey from Sao Paulo. Their first team arriving in Oslo consisted of street children from the slum. Today Pequeninos do Jockey is the most winning club in the history of Norway Cup with 17 gold medals.

In the eighties Norway Cup joined the Norwegian Football Association in a relief project in Tanzania. It was one of the first sports projects in the third world, and the work were aimed at disabled persons.

In 1989 came another new project, Mathare Youth Sport Association from Kenya. It all began with 15-20 youths from the slums of Nairobi. Today it is a movement with
more than 16 000 youths that participate in more than just football, for instance the fight against HIV/aids. The club has been nominated to the Nobel’s Peace prize two years in a row for their work combining football with community life!

One of the proudest moments in the history of Norway Cup was in 1995. For the first time ever a team from Israel played against a team from Palestine on a sporting arena – of course at the Ekeberg fields.

In 2003 Norway Cup broke yet another historical barrier. A Palestinian–Israeli team, named Peace Team, consisting of ten Israelis and ten Palestinian boys aged 12– 4 years of age, was participating in the world largest football tournament.

For the first time in the history of Norway Cup a team from the war ridden country of Afghanistan participated in 2003, while we had new countries to add to our list with Gambia, Iran, Lebanon, Costa Rica and Mali in 2005.