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Idrettslaget Solid is a Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 sports club from Sagvåg
Sagvåg
Sagvåg is a small community located in Stord Kommune, on the southwest of the island Stord, Norway. It has approximately 5,000 inhabitants, which makes it Sunnhordland's second largest community, after Leirvik. Wärtsilä Norway AS have a factory in Sagvåg, producing automation systems for the marine...

, Stord
Stord
Stord is a municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway. Stord is sometimes called "Norway in miniature" - as it has such a variety of landscapes: coastline, fjords, forests, agricultural land, and mountain areas....

, Hordaland
Hordaland
is a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark and Rogaland. Hordaland is the third largest county after Akershus and Oslo by population. The county administration is located in Bergen...

. It has sections for association football, team handball
Team handball
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

, gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

 and orienteering
Orienteering
Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they...

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The men's football team currently plays in the Fourth Division, the fifth tier of Norwegian football. It last played in the Third Division in 2006
2006 Norwegian Third Division
The 2006 season of the 3. divisjon, the fourth-highest association football league for men in Norway.Between 20 and 22 games were played in 24 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws...

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Its women's team had a solid run, winning its group in the 1998 First Division (second tier). It succumbed in a playoff to the 1998 Premier League
Norwegian Premier League 1997 (women's football)
The 1997 season of the Eliteserien, the highest women's football league in Norway, began on 26 April 1997 and ended on 11 October 1997.18 games were played with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws...

. In 1999, Solid fielded a First Division team no more.
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