Rana Fotballklubb is a Norwegian
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
club located in
Mo i Rana
(Norwegian language, Norwegian; ) or (and unofficially , ) is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city, and the administrative centre of Rana Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the Helgeland region of Nordland, just sou ...
,
Nordland
Nordland (; , , , ) is one of the three northernmost Counties of Norway, counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to t ...
. The club was founded 4 December 2017 as a merger of
Mo IL
Mo Idrettslag is a football club from Mo i Rana, Norway.
History
Mo IL was founded in 1904, as the first football club in Nord-Norge. In the first couple of years, Mo only played against teams with Englishmen working in the area, but on 7 June ...
and the football section of
IL Stålkameratene
Idrettslaget Stålkameratene, Stål for short, is a Norwegian sports club from Mo i Rana, Nordland. It has sections for judo, biathlon, Nordic skiing and football.
History
The club was founded on 11 January 1935 as ''Mo AIL'', a club with membe ...
.
The team currently plays in
2. divisjon, the third tier of the
Norwegian football league system
The Norwegian football league system, or pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in Norway.
2017 system in men's football
, the current national league system administered by the NFF is organised as 1–1–2–6, where ...
.
History
Although the merger was agreed 29 November 2017, Mo and Stålkameratene would continue to field their own tems in the 2018 season, as the merger would not effect before the 2019 season. Rana therefore played their first season in the
2019 4. divisjon. They won 15 out of their 16 games and were promoted to the
3. divisjon.
Recent seasons
:
References
{{2. divisjon teamlist
Football clubs in Norway
Sport in Nordland
Association football clubs established in 2017
2017 establishments in Norway
Rana, Norway