Norway vs England Key Stats: FIFA World Cup 2026

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• Norway are unbeaten in their last three competitive matches against England (W2 D1), the most recent a 2-0 win in a FIFA World Cup qualifier in Oslo in June 1993 that helped to qualify Norway for USA ’94, with England missing out.
• There have been four friendly internationals between the nations since then, in which England are unbeaten, having kept a clean sheet in all four games – two 0-0 draws followed by two 1-0 wins, the latest at Wembley in September 2014.
• Norway have reached the quarter-finals for the first time in their history.
• Norway are winless in their six World Cup matches against European teams (D2 L4).
• Norway have lost only two of their last ten World Cup matches (W5 D3). They have won four out of five at this edition (L1).
• Norway have lost just two of their last 21 matches (W16 D3).
• Norway have now scored 12 goals at the 2026 World Cup – extending their all-time best in a single edition of the tournament.
• Norway have opened the scoring in four of their five matches at the 2026 World Cup.
• Norway’s Erling Haaland has now scored seven goals in his first four World Cup appearances.
• Erling Haaland has scored 62 times in 54 appearances for his country, having now found the net against 27 different nations. England would be the 28th.
• Erling Haaland has scored in each of his last 14 competitive encounters for Norway, netting 27 goals during that run.
• England have prevailed in only one of their last six World Cup knockout round ties against European teams – and come into this encounter having lost three in a row.
• England have progressed from three of their ten World Cup quarter-final ties.
• England have lost only one of their last ten matches at the World Cup (W7 D2).
• England are aiming to win four successive World Cup matches for the first time since a six-match run when they won the last five in 1966 and their opening game of the 1970 edition.
• With his 17th appearance against Mexico, Jordan Pickford is now England’s joint-record appearance-maker in FIFA World Cup history, matching Peter Shilton’s tally. He will become England’s all-time leading appearance-maker if he makes his 18th in this match and Harry Kane is poised to move onto 17, pulling level with Shilton.
• Jude Bellingham has now netted five goals at the FIFA World Cup, drawing level with Geoff Hurst. Only Harry Kane (with 14) and Gary Lineker (with ten) have scored more for England.
• Harry Kane has scored 14 goals at the World Cup, extending his record as England’s all-time top goalscorer in the competition.
• England have scored 11 goals at the FIFA World Cup 2026. This is the third edition in a row they have hit double figures. They are two short of their record of 13 which they posted in 2022.
• A goal for Harry Kane would see him equal Gary Lineker’s England record of scoring in four successive World Cup appearances, with Lineker achieving the feat across the 1986 and 1990 editions.
• Nine of the 26 players in Norway’s FIFA World Cup squad currently play their club football in England – Kristoffer Ajer (Brentford), David Møller Wolfe (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Sander Berge & Oscar Bobb (Fulham), Erling Haaland (Manchester City), Martin Ødegaard (Arsenal), Jørgen Strand Larsen (Crystal Palace), Egil Selvik (Watford) and Sondre Langås (Derby County).
• A Manchester City player since 2022, Erling Haaland has won eight trophies with the club, including the treble of UEFA Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup in his debut campaign, when he was voted Premier League Player of the Season. He has been the Premier League’s top scorer in three of his four seasons, including 2025/26 with 27 goals. Haaland is a Manchester City team-mate of England’s Nico O’Reilly, Marc Guéhi and James Trafford. He also played at the club with John Stones from 2022-26.
• Norway skipper Martin Ødegaard is also the captain of reigning English champions Arsenal, winning the 2025/26 Premier League title alongside England’s Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka, Noni Madueke and Eberechi Eze.
• Norway striker Jørgen Strand Larsen, who played for Wolves from 2024-26, is a Crystal Palace team-mate of England goalkeeper Dean Henderson.
• Norway defender Kristoffer Ajer is a club colleague of England’s Jordan Henderson at Brentford, where he also played with England striker Ivan Toney from 2021-24.
• Norway head coach Ståle Solbakken and England’s Thomas Tuchel were rival head coaches in the 2011/12 German Bundesliga with Köln and Mainz, respectively. Their first encounter, on 13 December 2011, ended 1-1 in Cologne. The second, a 4-0 home win for Mainz on 10 April 2012.