Is Norway In The World Cup 2022?

Norway was unable to qualify for the 2022 World Cup.

Alongside Norway, for example, European champions Italy could miss out on successive World Cups.

If Turkey — the other contender in the group — had lost its final game, against Montenegro, then a tie would have been enough to keep Norway alive.

A second-place finish would have earned the Norwegians a slot in the playoffs for Europe’s three final berths in Qatar.

Those games will be played in March. Haaland would have been fit by then, and a fit Haaland would have changed everything.

Besides, Norway does not feel it has any deep-seated right to make it as far as the finals.

Other than that brief, bright window of hope in 1998 and 2000, and a group-stage exit in the United States in 1994, it has only ever qualified for one other major tournament: the 1938 World Cup, where it played one game, lost it and promptly went home.

It is the sort of record that prompted Karl Ove Knausgaard, the country’s celebrated novelist and autobiographer, to describe the team’s history as a series of games “in rainy Eastern Europe that they lost.”