Staal Jørpeland IL
Encyclopedia
Staal Jørpeland Idrettslag is a Norwegian
sports club from Jørpeland
, Rogaland
. It has sections for association football, team handball
and track and field
.
The club was founded in 1919, and the club colors are green and black.
The men's football team currently plays in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football.
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 Jørpeland
Jørpeland
Jørpeland is a town in the municipality of Strand in the county of Rogaland, Norway....
, Rogaland
Rogaland
is a county in Western Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. It is the center of the Norwegian petroleum industry, and as a result of this, Rogaland has the lowest unemployment rate of any county in Norway, 1.1%...
. 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...
and 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...
.
The club was founded in 1919, and the club colors are green and black.
The men's football team currently plays in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football.