Norwegian Cupen

Season Description
The 2025–26 Norwegian Football Cup was the 120th season of the Norwegian annual knock-out football tournament, and the first season since the competition was switched to an autumn–spring format. It started on 13 August 2025, and ended with the final on 9 May 2026.

Initially, the winners were set to play a qualifying play-off match against Lillestrøm – the winners of the 2025 Norwegian Football Cup – for a place in the 2026–27 Europa League play-off round. However, this play-off match will be cancelled as Bodø/Glimt ended up winning the 2025–26 cup; thus, Lillestrøm directly entered the 2026–27 Europa League play-off round.

As a transitional arrangement, the qualifying rounds and the first two main rounds were played without the 16 teams from the 2025 Eliteserien. For the third time in the tournament's history, the clubs from the top tier entered directly into the third round; the first two times were in 1998 and 2000, when there were 14 teams in the highest tier.

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