Nordic Football Championship
The Nordic Football Championship was a football tournament for men 's national teams of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, from 1929 also participated Finland. The competition was held regularly 1924-1983 and usually lasted for four years. The last edition took place in 2000 / 01, in addition thereto Iceland and the Faroe Islands took part.
- 5.1 All time standings
- 5.2 Record Player
- 5.3 Wins / Losses
Prehistory
Since 1912, Norway and Sweden contested annually two matches against each other. 1915 was followed by two additional annual games between Denmark and Sweden, a year later biennial games were also held between Denmark and Norway. These contracts expired after the First World War. On the initiative of the Danish Association of DBU under the direction of Louis Østrup a Scandinavian Championship between the national teams of the three countries was being considered. However, it took until 1923, when the Danish Association celebrated its 35th anniversary and in this respect Norway and Sweden agreed to the proposal to create competition under the name Nordic Championship in life. This should run over five years, the first trophy was donated by the Danish Association.
Further development
In November 1929, the Swedish Association SvFF celebrated its 25th anniversary. This was the occasion for a renewed, this time lasting four years, competition. For the first time Finland was considered for participation.
The next round was organized in 1933 by the Norwegian Federation NFF, this time specifically a new trophy was designed. Because of World War II took the fourth edition of the competition, which this time was organized by the Finnish Association SPL, with a total of eleven years at the longest on.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the competitions represented a central role in preparing for upcoming World and European Championships represents the games with Swedish participation in this case attracted particularly large crowds.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Nordic Championship lost its importance, with Sweden tried to break away from the competition, as the national team in the face of recent international successes should play against stronger opponents. Given the growing number of qualifiers it was also more difficult to coordinate the dates between the individual teams. Therefore, the regular sweeps in 1983 were adjusted as well as the last game, which had no influence on the winner of the last competition canceled.
In 2000 there was a one-off edition, in the first time, the teams took part of the Faroe Islands and Iceland. Most of the games were held in Spain, in the hall two encounters were completed. Denmark joined the first three games with a league selection, Sweden played in 2001 exclusively with players from domestic leagues and Finland graduated up to the game against Norway, all encounters with players from the Nordic countries.
Mode
The teams played on the mode " all against all " the tournament winner. In the first edition from 1924 to 1928, each team played five times four times each against each other, 1929-1977. For the years 1978-1983 the number of games was cut in half, so that now, each team had to play twice each against each other. In the last issue, this has been reduced again and only played one more game between the individual participants. The team that had the most points or goal difference after all games on points, was the tournament winner.
The tournaments at a glance
Ranking
Statistics
All time standings
It was given the three- point rule is based.
Most games
Goalscorer for Iceland at the only participation 2000-01 is Rikhardur Dadason with four goals, made in the Faroes Allan Mørkøre and Todi Jónsson 2000-01 the only two gates.
Wins / Losses
- Highest wins: Finland - Sweden 1:10 (August 15, 1954), Norway - Finland 9-0 (June 17, 1938)
- Highest-scoring games: Finland - Sweden 1:10 (August 15, 1954), Norway - Sweden 3:7 (23 August 1925), Sweden - Finland 8-2 (3 July 1931), Denmark - Finland 9:1 (15. October 1961 )
- Longest winning streak: 7 games (Sweden, June 9th 1939-19 September 1948 and 26 August 1970-17 September 1972. . )
- Longest unbeaten run: 26 games (Sweden 18 September 1966-11 August 1976. )
- Longest series without a victory: 24 games (Finland 16 August 1953-28 August 1960. )
- Longest losing streak: 13 games (Finland 16 September 1956-28 August 1960. )