Karl-Petter Loken, General Secretary of the Norwegian FA, says to NRK that he is concerned that Saturday's important World Cup qualifier against Israel could be interrupted due to security challenges.
The FA does not want to share financial details but states that they are spending more money on this match than ever before in terms of security measures in and around the national arena.
"Our main focus is to secure the event here. And ensure that there is a good framework for the team to perform, so that they may win and perhaps go to a World Cup on the men's side for the first time in 28 years", says Loken.
Football president Lise Klaveness admits that she is excited:
"You never know how a match will go. And now, when you add the political dimension to it, things come to a head. But we do ten times more than we do for a normal international match, so we feel well prepared", she says to NRK.
FIFA's regulations are in play since this is a World Cup qualifying match, and there is a provision in FIFA's disciplinary regulations that allows the organizing association to be sentenced to lose the match if a significant security challenge arises during the course of the game.
In 2007, Denmark and in 2014 Serbia were handed 0-3 default defeats as a result of their matches being abandoned due to spectator behaviour.
"It is particularly the implementation of matches inside the arena that will be particularly important to ensure that the Norwegian FA avoid ending up in such a situation", says Espen Auberg, former member of UEFA's judicial committee, to NRK.
"I do think the threshold for awarding a loss is probably higher if the security problems are related to conditions outside the stadium and demonstrations that do not take place inside the stadium, than if it is spectators who cause the match to have to be interrupted", says Auberg.
The match takes place at Ullevaal Stadium in Oslo on Saturday at 18.00 CET.