Idrettslaget Sørfjell 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 Eydehavn

Eydehavn

Eydehavn is a village area in the municipality of Arendal in Aust-Agder county, Norway. The population of the village area is about 4,080 people. It is the former administrative centre of both Moland and Stokken municipalities. Both municipalities have since been incorporated into Arendal...

. It has sections for association football, athletics, 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...

, ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

, floorball

Floorball

Floorball, a type of floor hockey, is an indoor team sport which was developed in the 1970s in Sweden. Floorball is most popular in areas where the sport has developed the longest, such as the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The game is played...

 and beach volleyball

Beach volleyball

Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....

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It was founded on 16 April 1916 as Eydehavn IF. In 1934 it merged with the club IL Fjell from Saltrød. In 1945 it merged with the workers' sports

Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund

Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund was a sporting organization in Norway between 1924 and 1946. As of 1935, AIF had around 50,000 members. AIF published the magazine Arbeideridrett.-Foundation and early growth:...

 club Stokken AIL and took the name Fjell/Stokken. It was later changed to IL Sørfjell. In 1953 it had no sections for floorball, volleyball or hockey, but had sections for Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing is a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing....

 and speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

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The men's football team currently plays in the Fifth Division, the sixth tier of Norwegian football. It played in the Fourth Division as late as in 2008, and in the Third Division as late as in 2005

2005 Norwegian Third Division

The 2005 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...

. Before that they had a Third Division streak from 1992

1992 Norwegian Third Division

The 1992 season of the 3. divisjon, the fourth highest association football league for men in Norway.22 games were played in 19 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws...

 to 1999

1999 Norwegian Third Division

The 1999 season of the 3. divisjon, the fourth highest association football league for men in Norway.Between 20 and 24 games were played in 19 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws...

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