2007 Norwegian Football Cup Explained

Norwegian Football Cup
Year:2007
Other Title:Norgesmesterskapet i fotball for herrer
Num Teams:128 (main competition)
Champions:Lillestrøm (5th title)
Runner-Up:Haugesund
Matches:127
Goals:492
Top Goal Scorer:Daniel Nannskog
(8 goals) [1]
Prevseason:2006
Nextseason:2008

The 2007 Norwegian Football Cup was the 102nd season of Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. The competition started on 19 May 2007 with the first-round games and ended on 11 November 2007 with the final. The defending champions were Fredrikstad.

The format of the Cup has not changed for this season what means that, unlike other European cup competitions, all teams (including Tippeligaen ones) entered the Cup in the first round. In the First and Second Round amateur teams (or at least lower-placed at the time of the draw) were seeded and played the matches at home ground. From the third round until the end the draw was random.

The winners, Lillestrøm, qualified for the second qualifying round of the 2008–09 UEFA Cup.

Calendar

Below are the dates for each round as given by the official schedule:

Round Date(s) Number of fixtures width=100 Clubs
19–20 May 2007 64 128 → 64
13–14 June 2007 32 64 → 32
26–28 June 2007 16 32 → 16
25–26 July 2007 8 16 → 8
18–19 August 2007 4 8 → 4
26 September 2007 2 4 → 2
Final 11 November 2007 1 2 → 1

First round

|colspan="3" style="background-color:#97DEFF"|19 May 2007|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#97DEFF"|20 May 2007|}

Second round

|colspan="3" style="background-color:#97DEFF"|13 June 2007|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#97DEFF"|14 June 2007|}

Third round

This was the last round in which the Norwegian FA determined match-ups.|colspan="3" style="background-color:#97DEFF"|26 June 2007|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#97DEFF"|27 June 2007|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#97DEFF"|28 June 2007|}

Fourth round

From this round onwards, matches were drawn by lots.----------------------------

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

See main article: 2007 Norwegian Football Cup final.

References

All fixtures, results and matchinfo have been retrieved from this page[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Toppscorer - NM - 2007.
  2. Web site: Terminliste Fotball-NM, menn 2007 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20121104180412/http://www.nrk.no/sport/fotball/nm/?m=1&sesong=2007&type=terminliste . 4 November 2012 . 2 February 2016 . no.