2017 Norwegian Football Cup final explained

2017 Norwegian Football Cup final
Event:	2017 Norwegian Football Cup
Team1:	Lillestrøm
Team1score:	3
Team2:	Sarpsborg 08
Team2score:	2
Date:	3 December 2017
Stadium:	Ullevaal Stadion
City:	Oslo
Referee:	Ola Hobber Nilsen
Attendance:	25,091 ^[1]
Previous:	2016
Next:	2018

The 2017 Norwegian Football Cup final was the final match of the 2017 Norwegian Football Cup, the 112th season of the Norwegian Football Cup, the premier Norwegian football cup competition organized by the Football Association of Norway (NFF). The match was played on 3 December 2017 at the Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo, and opposed two Eliteserien sides Lillestrøm and Sarpsborg 08. Lillestrøm defeated Sarpsborg 08 3–2 to claim the Norwegian Cup for a sixth time in their history and a first since 2007.^[2]

Route to the final

See also: 2017 Norwegian Football Cup.

Lillestrøm	width=10%	Round!	Sarpsborg 08
Skjetten (D3) A 2 - 0	Ajeti 27', Škoda 47'	First round		Drøbak-Frogn (D3) A 10 - 1	Fejzullahu 3', 11', 19', Diatta 21', 30', 86', Trondsen 23', Larsen 45', 78', 90+2'
Brumunddal (D2) A 3 - 1	Ajeti 25', Melgalvis 52', Škoda 83'	Second round	Moss (D3) A 3 - 1	Heintz 28', Mortensen 67', Fejzullahu 90+3'
Ull/Kisa (D1) A 4 - 2	Innocent 27', Rafn 30', Mikalsen 67', Kippe 87'	Third round		Kongsvinger (D1) A 4 - 0	Mortensen 14', Nielsen 43', Halvorsen 63', Zachariassen 66'
Tromsø (ES) H 1 - 0	Tagbajumi 57'	Fourth round		Odd (ES) H 4 - 0	Rossbach 38' o.g., 41' o.g., Diatta 47', Trondsen 52'
Stabæk (ES) H 3 - 1	Melgalvis 21', Tagbajumi 56', Krogstad 90+2'	Quarter-final		Mjøndalen (D1) A 2 - 1	Zachariassen 66', Heintz 85'
Molde (ES) A 3 - 0	Mikalsen 75', Knudtzon 87', Melgalvis 90+1'	Semi-final	Vålerenga (ES) A 3 - 0	Diatta 25', Halvorsen 59', 90'

• (ES) = Eliteserien team
• (D1) = 1. divisjon team
• (D2) = 2. divisjon team
• (D3) = 3. divisjon team

Match

Details

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Lillestrøm: width=25 ! width=25 GK 77 Arnold Origi Otieno RB 2 Mats Haakenstad CB 4 Marius Amundsen CB 13 Frode Kippe (c) LB 5 Simen Rafn RM 33 CM 14 Fredrik Krogstad CM 6 Ifeanyi Mathew LM 3 Simen Kind Mikalsen CF 23 CF 11 Substitutions: GK 1 Marko Marić FW 7 Moses Ebiye MF 8 Charles Ezeh FW 10 MF 15 MF 22 DF 24 Erik Sandberg Head Coach: Arne Erlandsen

Sarpsborg 08: width=25 ! width=25 GK 1 Anders Kristiansen RB 77 Amin Askar CB 11 Joackim Jørgensen CB 15 Sigurd Rosted LB 16 Joachim Thomassen (c) RM 7 Ole Jørgen Halvorsen CM 8 Matti Lund Nielsen CM 6 Nicolai Poulsen LM 17 Kristoffer Zachariassen CF 19 Krépin Diatta CF 69 Patrick Mortensen Substitutions: GK 1 Stefan Čupić FW 10 Jonas Lindberg DF 13 Ole Christoffer Heieren Hansen MF 14 Tobias Heintz MF 18 Tor Øyvind Hovda DF 20 Anders Østli MF 22 Jon-Helge Tveita Head Coach: Geir Bakke

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MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Geir-Oskar Isaksen (Ramfjord UIL) Anders Michael Velo (Furuset Fotball) Fourth official: Kai Erik Steen (Gneist IL)

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MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of three substitutions.

See also

• 2017 Norwegian Football Cup
• 2017 Eliteserien
• 2017 1. divisjon
• 2017 in Norwegian football

External links

• Cup final at altomfotball.no

Notes and References

1. News: Lillestrøm - Sarpsborg 08 - 03.12.2017 13.15 - Norges Fotballforbund . Fotball.no. 21 January 2019.
2. News: Lillestrøm tok sitt sjette cupgull: - Dette er rørende . Dagbladet. 3 December 2017. 21 January 2019.