Ski Idrettslag 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...

 alliance sports club from Ski

Ski, Norway

is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Follo. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Ski. Ski was separated from the municipality of Kråkstad on 1 July 1931 to form a separate municipality...

, Akershus

Akershus

- Geography :The county is conventionally divided into the traditional districts Follo and Romerike, which fill the vast part of the county, as well as the small exclave west of Oslo that consists of Asker and Bærum...

. It has sections for association football, track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

, 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...

, 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...

, 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...

, tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 and 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...

. The club colors are yellow and blue.

General history

The club was founded as Ski TIF on 19 February 1919. In 1946 it incorporated the AIF

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 AIL Fremad.

Athletics

It has been a prominent athletics club for many years. On national level, Ski athletes have taken national championship medals in all the kinds of events. The Ski IL athlete with the most national championships is Tormod Lislerud, won won the discus throw

Discus throw

The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

 title in 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1974. Olympian Christina Vukicevic

Christina Vukicevic

Ljubica Christina Vukicevic is a Norwegian hurdler of Serbian and Norwegian descent...

 has won the 100 metres hurdles

100 metres hurdles

The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...

 title six times since 2004, but only three times representing Ski. Her brother Vladimir Vukicevic won the 110 metres hurdles

110 metres hurdles

The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...

 in 2009. Olympic javelin throw

Javelin throw

The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

 champion Trine Solberg Hattestad

Trine Hattestad

Trine Hattestad is a former Norwegian javelin thrower. She was born on 18 April 1966 in Lørenskog, Norway....

 represented the club in her early career, and won national titles for Ski in 1983, 1984 and 1985 before changing club. Trygve Stenerud became national long jump

Long jump

The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

 champion in 1952, and Ellen Aasum became high jump

High jump

The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

 champion in 1985.

Olympic decathlete Trond Høiby

Trond Høiby

Trond Høiby is a retired decathlete from Norway. He set his personal best score on July 4, 1999 at a meet in Herentals. He is a four-time national champion in the men's decathlon ....

 has a national silver medal in javelin throw from 2001. Stein Bjørlo was a 10,000 metres silver medalist in 1969, and in 2007 Philip Bjørnå Berntsen (who later changed club) took a silver in 100 metres and bronze in 200 metres. Lise Margareth Jensen got a silver medal (1999) and two bronze in the 400 metres hurdles before changing club. Odd Stenerud took a shot put

Shot put

The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

 bronze in 1953, and Monica Ragna Matea Jensen took a hammer throw

Hammer throw

The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...

 bronze in 2001. Olympic snowboarder Helene Olafsen

Helene Olafsen

Helene Olafsen is a Norwegian snowboarder.She placed tenth overall in the 2007-08 Snowboarding World Cup, and fifth in her special event boardercross, where she collected 3570 of her total 4160 points...

 has also competed for Ski, in her youth.

Football

The men's football team played in the First Division

Adeccoligaen

The Norwegian First Division is the second highest division of the Norwegian football league system. Since 2005, the official name of the league has been Adeccoligaen....

, the second tier of Norwegian football, as late as in 1993. After being relegated it had a stint in the Second Division

Norwegian Second Division

The Norwegian Second Division is the third highest division of the Norwegian football league system. Since 2009, the official name of the league has been Fair Play-ligaen....

 until 2000

2000 Norwegian Second Division

The 2000 season of the 2. divisjon, the third highest football league for men in Norway.22 games were played in 8 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws...

, when it succumbed to Nybergsund IL

Nybergsund IL

Nybergsund IL-Trysil is a Norwegian football club located in Nybergsund in Trysil. It currently plays in the Norwegian Second Division, having being relegated from Adeccoligaen in 2011 after four seasons on the second tier.- Recent history :...

 in a relegation playoff. It had tried to loan

Loan (football)

In sports, a loan involves a particular player being allowed to temporarily play for a club other than the one he is currently contracted to. Loan deals may last from a few weeks to all season-long....

 their own former youth player Martin Andresen

Martin Andresen

Martin Andresen is a Norwegian football manager.-Club career:Martin Andresen was a regular on many Norwegian national youth teams while playing for Moss, Viking and Stabæk Fotball from 1995-1999. After the 1999 season, Andresen was sold to Premier League club Wimbledon in a deal worth £1,8 million...

 from FA Premiership team Wimbledon F.C.

Wimbledon F.C.

Wimbledon Football Club was an English professional association football club from Wimbledon, south-west London. Founded in 1889 as Wimbledon Old Central Football Club, the club spent most of its history in amateur and semi-professional non-League football before being elected to the Football...

, but to no avail.

Ahead of the 2001 season it cooperated with other clubs to form a new umbrella team in the region, Follo FK, founded on 29 September 2000. It immediately won promotion to the Second Division, and currently plays in the First Division. Ski's men's team had to start anew, and currently plays in the Fifth Division.

Follo uses Ski's home field Ski idrettspark

Ski stadion

Ski Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Ski, Norway. It is currently used for track and field meets hosted by Ski IL and for association football matches, being the home ground of Follo FK....

. The attendance record for a Ski match is c.3000, recorded at a game in 1976 against Leicester City F.C.

Leicester City F.C.

Leicester City Football Club , also known as The Foxes, is an English professional football club based at the King Power Stadium in Leicester...

.

Handball

In handball, Ski is mainly known through the name Fredensborg/Ski. In 1980, Ski IL's handball section cooperated with the handball section of 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...

-based team Fredensborg SBK. The team was successful, but won its last national title in 1985. In 1994 the handball sections of the two clubs formally created the new club Fredensborg/Ski HK, but it lasted only until 1997 when it fell apart for financial reasons. Ski later cooperated with four local teams to form the club Follo HK.

The women's team plays in the Fourth Division. and the men´s team in the Third Division.

Ice hockey

The men's ice hockey team played in the First Division, the second tier of Norwegian ice hockey, in the 2004–2005 season. In the 2009–2010 season it played in the Second Division, where placing quite lowly. The ice arena is named Ski ishall.