Verdal 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...

 sports club from Verdalsøra

Verdalsøra

Verdalsøra is a town in the municipality of Verdal in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. The town is the administrative center of the municipality. It is located along the Trondheimsfjord at the mouth of the river Verdalselva...

, Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag

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. 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...

, weightlifting 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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It was established on 21 May 1920 as a merger between Værdalens SL, founded 12 December 1916, and FK Falken. The club counts 1916 as its founding year. In 1984 the 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...

 section formed its own club Verdal FIK.

Football

The men's football team currently plays in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football. It contested a playoff to win promotion to 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....

 in 1996, but failed. It last played in the Second Division in 2002

2002 Norwegian Second Division

The 2002 season of the 2. divisjon, the third highest football league for men in Norway.26 games were played in 4 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Fredrikstad, Bærum, Mandalskameratene and Alta were promoted to the First Division. Number twelve, thirteen and fourteen were...

. It then won its Third Division group and contested playoffs to the Second Division in 2006 and 2007, but failed both times.

In 2011 they signed former Tippeliga

Tippeligaen

Tippeligaen is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. The league is also unofficially known under its neutral name Eliteserien , although the name has never been official...

 player Trond Viggo Toresen

Trond Viggo Toresen

Trond Viggo Toresen is a Norwegian football midfielder who currently plays for Verdal IL.He joined the team from Levanger FK in 2011. Before he went back to his home towns of Verdal and Levanger he played in Norwegian Tippeliga and Adeccoliga for Odd Grenland and Notodden FK as a midfielder...

 from Levanger FK, he played a role as Playing Coach along with Head Coach Nils Petter Austad. He proved to be an important figure in the battle for promotion to Second Division, witch ended in a 3rd place and no promotion.

The women's football team played in the Norwegian Premier League in 1996

Norwegian Premier League 1996 (women's football)

The 1996 season of the Eliteserien, the highest women's football league in Norway, began on 21 April 1996 and ended on 13 October 1996....

 and 1997

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 December 2004 the women's section started a cooperation team in the region, named Verdal FK.This was later disclosed after little success and internal disputes.