Idrettsforeningen Ready is a sports club in Vestre Aker

Vestre Aker

Vestre Aker is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway.The previous municipality Aker was merged into the city of Oslo in 1948.The borough of Vestre Aker was organized as part of the 1 January 2004 reform. Previous boroughs...

, Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway

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...

. The club was established on June 14, 1907 by Aage Blom Lorentzen.

The football club play their home games at Gressbanen

Gressbanen

Gressbanen is a sports field at Holmen in Vestre Aker, the home ground of the Norwegian sports club Ready.The name means "The Grass Field", but it now has an artificial turf. The record attendance is about 17,000 from an international match on 31 August 1919 between Norway and the Netherlands...

 in Oslo. Gressbanen was the national arena for the Norwegian national football team before Ullevaal was built in 1928. Former Norwegian international Dan Eggen

Dan Eggen

Dan Eggen is a Norwegian football coach and former player. He is currently coaching Kolbotn IL in the Norwegian Premier League for women. He was capped 25 times for Norway, scoring two goals.-Biography:...

 has played for Ready.

Ready's elite bandy

Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

 team started playing in the Norwegian Bandy Premier League 2004–05

Norwegian Bandy Premier League 2004–05

The 2004–05 season of the Norwegian Premier League, the highest bandy league for men in Norway.21 games were played, with 2 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Mjøndalen won the league, whereas no team was relegatedm, as the bottom two teams survived a playoff round.-League table:...

 and has played there ever since. The club has 13 Norwegian championships in this sport, however the last one came as far back as 1926.

The club's female bandy team has five international players for Norway.

Ski jumper Jon Aaraas

Jon Aaraas

Jon Aaraas is a retired Norwegian ski jumper. He debuted in the World Cup in 2005 in Pragelato, where he finished 26th. He was on the Norwegian Four Hills Tournament team in the 2006–07 World Cup...

is a member of the club.