The club was established to give people living in Oslo the opportunity to play the game they love. Luckily for us, in the time since then, cricket in Oslo has become a major sport, boasting 7 divisions and nearly 70 teams. In 2012 the Aliens won the First Division and were promoted, for the first time in our history, to the Elite Division. This is quite an achievement for a team that didn’t win a single game for the first two and a half seasons of its existence.

On the Pitch

Things have indeed changed on the pitch, but otherwise the club sticks resolutely and proudly to its policy of welcoming members from any background and of any cricketing ability. In 2012 we fielded a team consisting of players with ten different nationalities – and this is not the first time such a thing has happened. "Our goals as a club are simple. Firstly we want to be competitive on the field. Secondly we do not want to lose sight of the social and integrating role the club plays for its members in Norway"

We organise two trips each year. The first, in the middle of winter, is to Lords for a weekend of indoor training. The second, usually at the end of April, is a tour. This year we travelled to the sunny beached and quick outfields of Alicante, Spain. Two games against the local league champions, the Sporting Alfas, saw the Oslo Aliens take their first two victories under the new captain Dennis Peter. Highlights of the game on sunday can be found here.

Off the Pitch

For several years we have been collecting equipment and delivering it to asylum centres in Norway where young Afghan refugees are desperate to play cricket. This is not entirely altruistic as we anticipate some of these young men playing for us in the years to come. A major development in 2012 was our decision to start supporting the charity “Cricket without Boundaries”. To that end we raised £1000, or enough to buy several hundred sets of the equipment they use in their efforts to raise AIDS awareness in Africa. We hope to improve on that amount in 2016. Here is what the charity had to say about us.

Finally, we think the most useful purpose we serve is that of helping new arrivals to Oslo to settle and socialise. That’s our favourite thing and we organise both formal and informal gatherings all through the year. Join our mailing list and you will be sent information about these.

Oslo Aliens Cricket Club welcomes anybody, of any age or ability who is interested in playing, or being associated with cricket in Norway.  Please contact us if you interested in joining our club.

About us

If you would like to know more about joining us please contact us.

We are a social cricket club based in Oslo founded in 2000. We are proudly a multi-cultural club made up of mainly expats from a range of countries. Our members have come from 10 different countries (from all Test playing nations except Ireland). We try to balance being serious about cricket with also being a way for people moving to Norway to have a social network. Our members come from a range of backgrounds and we do our best to welcome all regardless of background or cricketing standard.

Following a major restructuring of the Norwegian cricket competition we now (season 2020) play a total of 18 matches . This is comprised of 9 Championship (30-over) and 9 League (T20) matches.

Each year we organise a pre-season tour. Our 2020 pre-season toured was unfortunately cancelled due to CoVid-19. In 2019 we travelled the Czech Republic to play against a local club, Vinohrady. You can read about our previous adventures over in the Tour Archive.

Aliens in the Media

In 2014 we featured in an Episode of Norwegian comedian Truls Svendsen´s show "Oppdrag Norge". Below is a pic of 3 of us with him after filming

We also were visited by a journalist at our indoor training and interviewed us as part of a piece on Norwegian Cricket that appeared in a national newspaper.

http://www.dagsavisen.no/innenriks/den-hemmelige-lille-kjempesporten-1.346541