2018 Norwegian Football Cup final explained

2018 Norwegian Football Cup final
Event:	2018 Norwegian Football Cup
Team1:	Rosenborg
Team1score:	4
Team2:	Strømsgodset
Team2score:	1
Date:	2 December 2018
Stadium:	Ullevaal Stadion
City:	Oslo
Referee:	Trond Ivar Døvle^[1]
Attendance:	22,182
Previous:	2017
Next:	2019

The 2018 Norwegian Football Cup final was the final match of the 2018 Norwegian Football Cup, the 113th 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 2 December 2018 at the Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo, and opposed two Eliteserien sides Rosenborg and Strømsgodset. Rosenborg defeated Strømsgodset 4–1 to claim the Norwegian Cup for a twelfth time in their history and equaled Odd's record number of cup titles.^[2]

Route to the final

See also: 2018 Norwegian Football Cup.

Rosenborg	width=10%	Round!	Strømsgodset
Trygg/Lade (D4) A 4 - 2	Zekhnini 28', Lundemo 47', Søderlund 52', Bjørnstad 90'	First round		Vestfossen (D3) A 4 - 1	Abdellaoue 8', 54', Pellegrino 58', Andersen 79'
Steinkjer (D3) A 5 - 0	Trondsen 28', Botheim 30', 45', 90', Stamnestrø 85'	Second round	Valdres (D3) A 3 - 1	Tokstad 31', Pellegrino 76', Jradi 83'
Brattvåg (D2) A 1 - 0	Søderlund 64'	Third round		Bærum (D2) A 3 - 0	Lyngen 51' o.g., Abdellaoue 59', Andersen 63'
Odd (ES) H 2 - 2 (5 - 3 p)	Konradsen 25', Søderlund 81'	Fourth round		Ranheim (ES) H 2 - 0	Andersen 57', Jradi 90+2'
Vålerenga (ES) H 2 - 0	Denić 17', Søderlund 54'	Quarter-final		Haugesund (ES) A 1 - 0	Abdellaoue 16'
Start (ES) H 2 - 1	Bendtner 55', Søderlund 90+3'	Semi-final	Lillestrøm (ES) H 3 - 0	Abdellaoue 49', 52', 83'

• (ES) = Eliteserien team
• (D1) = 1. divisjon team
• (D2) = 2. divisjon team
• (D3) = 3. divisjon team
• (D4) = 4. divisjon team

Match

Details

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Rosenborg: width=25 ! width=25 GK 1 André Hansen RB 2 CB 4 Tore Reginiussen CB 16 Even Hovland LB 3 Birger Meling RM 7 Mike Jensen (c) CM 8 Anders Konradsen LM 15 Anders Trondsen RW 23 CF 9 Nicklas Bendtner LW 28 Substitutions: GK 24 Arild Østbø FW 10 Matthías Vilhjálmsson FW 11 FW 14 MF 17 MF 25 Marius Lundemo DF 26 Besim Šerbečić Head Coach: Rini Coolen

Strømsgodset: width=25 ! width=25 GK 40 Morten Sætra RB 26 CB 2 Mounir Hamoud CB 5 Jakob Glesnes (c) LB 3 Jonathan Parr CM 6 Henning Hauger CM 7 RW 90 AM 93 Tokmac Nguen LW 23 Eirik Ulland Andersen CF 30 Mustafa Abdellaoue Substitutions: GK 1 Espen Bugge Pettersen MF 8 Johan Hove FW 11 DF 17 Christoffer Lindquist MF 18 MF 19 Francisco Júnior DF 39 Head Coach: Bjørn Petter Ingebretsen

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MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Morten Jensen (Fjellhamar FK) Eivin Christofer Møllerud Hansen (Grorud IL) Fourth official: Kristoffer Horne Hagenes (TIL Hovding)

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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

• 2018 Norwegian Football Cup
• 2018 Eliteserien
• 2018 1. divisjon
• 2018 in Norwegian football

External links

• Cup final at altomfotball.no

Notes and References

1. News: Døvle dømmer cupfinale . Fotball.no. 12 November 2018. 22 January 2019.
2. News: Cupfinalen 2018 . NRK. 2 December 2018. 22 January 2019.