This is because Norway has strict quotas.

Its league rules state that a club's full squad must include 16 homegrown players and a matchday squad can have a maximum of nine foreign players.

Nicklas Fuglestad is 20, and regularly plays for Viking FK, based in the Norwegian city of Stavanger. He believes quotas are good for the game.

"Everyone I know is very happy with how the Norwegian football league operates," he says.

"It makes it a bit easier for a young player to move up from the academy and make the step into A-league football."

Viking turned their focus to developing academy talent nearly a decade ago, after they were relegated to the second division.

After finishing champions last year, they have made it to the league stage of the Champions League, where they recently started eight Norwegians in their line-up, four of whom had been in their academy.

Another three from their academy came off the bench.

With both Viking FK and Bodø/Glimt in Europe's top competition this year, it could be said that Norway is going through a golden generation.

Their national team reached the World Cup quarter final – and that wasn't just down to man mountain Erling Haaland.