# 2025 in Norway

Events in the year 2025 in Norway.

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Harald V
* President of the Storting – Masud Gharahkhani (Labour).
* Prime Minister – Jonas Gahr Støre (Labour).

## Events

* 8 January – 2 February – The 2025 World Men's Handball Championship in Croatia, Denmark and Norway.
* 4 February – Former prime minister Jens Stoltenberg is appointed as finance minister in the Støre Cabinet after his predecessor, Trygve Slagsvold Vedum and his Centre Party withdraw from the coalition government.

### Scheduled

* Norway aims to ban the sale of all new diesel and petrol cars by this year.
* 8 September – 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election

## Holidays

Source:
* 1 January – New Year's Day
* 17 April – Maundy Thursday
* 18 April – Good Friday
* 20 April – Easter Sunday
* 21 April – Easter Monday
* 1 May – May Day
* 17 May – Constitution Day
* 29 May – Ascension Day
* 8 June – Pentecost
* 9 June – Whit Monday
* 25 December – Christmas Day
* 26 December – Second Day of Christmas

## Art and entertainment

* List of Norwegian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

## Sports

* 13 January – Three-time Champions League winner Vipers Kristiansand declares bankruptcy and is evicted from the 2024–25 handball league.
* 22 January – The member clubs of Norsk Toppfotball vote (19 to 13) to work for abolishment of video assistant refereeing.
* 26 February–9 March – The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2025 is held in Trondheim.
   * Norway wins 14 gold medals and finishes first in the medal table.
* 1 March – The national convention of the Football Association of Norway votes to retain video assistant refereeing.
* 2 March – The national convention of the Football Association of Norway votes to stage the Norwegian football cup finals for men and women in the spring rather than in the late fall, as has been tradition since its inception.
* 6–9 March – Norway takes three gold medals and finishes third in the medal table at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
* 9 March – The director of sports in the elite ski jumping section of the Norwegian Ski Federation, Jan Erik Aalbu, publicly admits that the ski jumping team illegally tampered with their gear to enhance performances.
* 9 March – FK Bodø/Glimt advance to the quarter-final of the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League, as Kasper Høgh concurrently moves into position as top goalscorer of the tournament.
* 13–16 March – The 2025 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships is held in Hamar.
   * Norway wins three gold medals and finishes third in the medal table.

## Deaths
### January

* 4 January – Elisabeth Haarr, textile artist (born 1945).
* 7 January – Øyvind Vågnes, writer, editor, and professor of media science (born 1972).
* 8 January –
** Kjell Kjær, actor (born 1942).
** Karsten Klepsvik, diplomat (born 1952).
* 10 January – Einar Olav Skogholt, politician (born 1947).
* 13 January – Kjell Svindland, politician (born 1933).
* 14 January –
** Kjell Gjerseth, journalist (born 1946).
** Hans Stenberg-Nilsen, jurist and Supreme Court attorney (born 1930).
* 20 January – Harald Paalgard, cinematographer (born 1950).
* 21 January – Tore Austad, politician (born 1935).
* 21 January – Håkon Bleken, painter (born 1929).
* 26 January –
** Signe Howell, social anthropologist (born 1942).
** Asbjørn Larsen, industrial leader (born 1936).
* 27 January – Anna Hannevik, Salvation Army commissioner (born 1925).
* 30 January – Kåre Øvregard, politician (born 1933).
* 31 January – Brynjar Aa, writer and playwright (born 1960).

### February

* 11 February – Knut Flatin, painter and printmaker (born 1945).
* 12 February – Barthold Halle, stage instructor, film director and theatre director (born 1925).
* 21 February – Alf Bakke, entomologist and forest researcher (born 1927).
* 26 February –
** Bjørn Ludvigsen, footballer (born 1969).
** Kjell Alrich Schumann, convicted robber and murderer (born 1966).
* 27 February –
** Bjørn Opsahl, photographer and film director (born 1968).
** Kjartan Rødland, journalist and newspaper editor (born 1938).

### March

* 7 March – Narve Bjørgo, historian (born 1936).
* 13 March – Einar Kringlen, psychiatrist (born 1931).
* 14 March – Dag Solstad, writer (born 1941).
* 15 March — Esten Gjelten, biathlete (born 1942).