Between 14th and 16th June next year, the English Premier League football club Arsenal will hold a training course at the KA sports ground in Akureyri, northern Iceland. Read the full story

Fresh home from the European Women’s European Cup in Finland, the Icelandic ladies’ team took to the qualifying for the next World Cup in fine style yesterday, beating Estonia 12-0. Read the full story

Norway is home to one of the world’s biggest annual football tournaments, the Norway Cup, which attracts youth players from around the globe to compete in the prestigious event. The matches have been underway in Oslo since Sunday, and will culminate in high-profile finals played today and tomorrow. Read the full story

A 1-0 Danish victory over their Nordic neighbours Sweden has left the Swedes in peril of failing to qualify for the 2010 World Cup football finals in South Africa. Denmark won the hard-fought match at Rasunda Stadium, bringing them one step closer to making an appearance at next year’s global football competition. Read the full story

The Dutch and Icelandic men’s football teams will clash again in Reykjavik on 6th June after an October meeting in Rotterdam which Holland won 2-0. The Reykjavik match is the second leg in the countries’ qualification clash for the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa.

As runaway group leaders, the Dutch are probably already packing their bags for South Africa; but third place Iceland still have a chance to join them and will be pushing their visitors hard in June. Read the full story

Sweden’s Football Association has announced it intends to team up with Norway to make a joint bid to host the European Championship in 2016. The European continent’s premier football competition has only been held in Scandinavia once, when Sweden hosted the event in 1992. Read the full story

Norway got a pleasant surprise when its national football team beat Germany 1-0 in a friendly match last week. It’s been 73 long years since Norway last upset the Germans on the football pitch. Germany was the runner-up at last summer’s European Championships, which makes the win all the more impressive. Read the full story

The Danish Football Federation has its eye on ex-Chelsea coach Frank Arnesen as current national team coach Morten Olsen continues to struggle to create impressive results. Olsen’s contract is set to expire in 2010, but should the Danes fail to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa his departure could come sooner. Read the full story

The finals of the under-21 version of one of the world’s most popular and entertaining football tournaments, the UEFA European Championship, will take place in Denmark in 2011. The Nordic nation was awarded the honour by the UEFA Executive Committee in Nyon this week. Read the full story

After five unproductive years in charge of Norway’s national football team, coach Aage Hareide has decided to call it quits, saying he’s exhausted and hasn’t achieved any notable results on the world arena. The final straw seems to have been Hareide’s inability to put together a squad that can win a match in the qualifying rounds for 2010’s World Cup. Read the full story