Norway fans at Handball World Cup back BVB rivals Bodø/Glimt | OneFootball

For FK Bodø/Glimt, despite having won several league titles in recent years, this is their first participation in the Champions League. It’s only logical that a particularly large number of the club’s fans are taking the opportunity to experience a competitive match at Signal Iduna Park with their own senses. Since the Women's Handball World Championship is also currently taking place in Dortmund, among other places, a curious situation arose yesterday.

Norway has traditionally been extremely strong in women’s handball. In recent years, they have won the world championship three times and were runners-up three more times, only losing in the final. Even now, with the 2025 Handball World Championship in full swing, the Norwegian women are once again aiming to be among the top teams.

Yesterday, their quarterfinal took place at the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund. The team from Montenegro was rather casually defeated 32:23. Thousands of fans from Norway were present. But while these fans are usually dressed in the red of their national flag—and the players’ jerseys—yesterday presented a different picture, as reported on Handball.net.

This time, the majority of Norway’s supporters showed up in yellow. This is also the standard jersey color of FK Bodø/Glimt, BVB’s opponent tomorrow. The explanation is simple. Many of the estimated 4,000 FK Bodø/Glimt supporters had already traveled to Dortmund the day before the Champions League match against Borussia Dortmund.

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Yesterday Westfalenhalle, today (former) Westfalenstadion

Since the Norwegian women successfully encouraged fans to also attend their match at the Handball World Championship, many fans followed this call. The invitation also included a request to wear yellow instead of red this time, which many fans did.

For their women’s handball team, the fans’ support has already led to success. In today’s football match, where the so-far winless Norwegians from the Arctic Circle face BVB, this ambition will likely be much harder to realize. Nevertheless, today’s visiting club will be supported by a clearly four-digit number of fans, who will probably be heard at Signal Iduna Park as well. With an average home attendance for FK Bodø/Glimt in their domestic league of 6,843, this is anything but a given.

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