It is the Tromsö Research Foundation and the Norwegian Arctic University in Tromsö (UiT) that go in with 21 million Norwegian kroner each, just over 47 million Swedish kronor in total, a press release says.
The Norwegian Football Association welcomes the investment.
- Football is Norway's biggest sport for women. We have over a hundred thousand active girls and women in football, says the union's elite director Lise Klaveness according to the news agency NTB.
The money will be used, among other things, to support the newly established Women's Soccer Center. The research will be divided into three main areas: football physiology, psychology and medicine.
- Increased knowledge of girls' physical conditions in sports is very important, both to facilitate in the wide field but also to keep up with the explosive development that takes place in international top football, says Klaveness.
Norway is ranked 12th in the world. In the summer World Cup they reached the quarterfinals, but there England won 3-0.