Åssiden Idrettsforening (nicknamed "Åssia") is a Norwegian sports club from

Drammen Drammen () is a city and municipality in Viken, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and villages such as Konner ...

Buskerud Buskerud () is a former county and a current electoral district in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark and Vestfold. The region extends from the Oslofjord and Drammensfjorden in the southeast to Har ...

. It has sections for

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...

and handball, and

skiing Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow. Variations of purpose include basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee ...

, previously also

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

. It was founded in 1937. Åssiden was a part of Lier at the time, but was later incorporated into Drammen municipality. The men's football team currently plays in 3. divisjon, the fourth 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 ...

, since their promotion from the

2019 4. divisjon The 2019 season of the ''4. divisjon'', the fifth highest association football league for men in Norway. Between 16 and 26 games (depending on group size) are played in 24 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. According to a propo ...

. The club last played in 2. divisjon in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

, and in the 1. divisjon as late as in

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

References

Official site

External links

Åssiden Stadion - Nordic Stadiums
Football clubs in Norway Sport in Buskerud Drammen Lier, Norway Association football clubs established in 1937 Bandy clubs established in 1937 1937 establishments in Norway {{Norway-footyclub-stub