Take United Women's most recent UEFA Women’s Champions League visitors, for example – in their previous fixture before heading to Leigh, Valerenga were away to Bodo/Glimt: just the 500 miles by air from Oslo, or well over 700 by road. Rosenborg, based in Trondheim, is another far-flung away day that puts fresh perspective on our WSL trips to Crawley and Kingsmeadow.
For the most part, though, the teams competing towards the top of the women’s league pyramid in Norway are more closely concentrated towards the south of this long and narrow nation. After all, that’s where its three most-populated cities can all be found: Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger/Sandnes.