Norwegian District Football Associations

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The District Football Associations are the local governing bodies of association football in Norway. District FAs exist to govern all aspects of local football in their defined areas, providing grassroots support to the Norwegian Football Federation by promoting and administering football, futsal and beach soccer in their respective districts.

Most of the 18 District FAs align roughly with the boundaries of the historic and current Districts of Norway.

The District FAs administer youth football and the lower tier leagues from 4. divisjon (men) and 2. divisjon (women), respectively, and further below.

The 18 district organisations are as follows: [1]

Footnotes

  1. "Kretser". Norwegian Football Federation . Retrieved 28 January 2020.

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