Aurskog-Finstadbru Sportsklubb is a
Norwegian
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sports club from
Aurskog-Høland
Aurskog-Høland is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bjørkelangen. The municipality of Rømskog, in Østfold ...
,
Akershus
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. 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 ...
,
handball,
cycling
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,
swimming
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, and
Nordic skiing
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.
It was founded on 29 November 1903. The club's best known members are ski jumper
Lasse Ottesen
Lasse Ottesen (born 8 April 1974) is a Norwegian former ski jumper who competed from 1991 to 2002.
Career
He grew up in the little hamlet of Aurskog in eastern Norway and represented the local sports club Aurskog-Finstadbru SK.
His biggest succ ...
and speed skater
Anette Tønsberg
Anette Tønsberg (born 2 April 1970) is a Norwegian speed skater.
Biography
Tønsberg was born in Lørenskog and represented the club Aurskog/Finstadbru SK. She competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and at the 1998 Winter Olympics ...
.
The men's football team plays in the Fourth Division, the fifth tier of Norwegian football. Its last stint in the Third Division came in
2009
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. Aurskog-Finstadbru had then been a mainstay at this tier for many years, after even contesting the Second Division in
1994
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.
In 2008
Kenneth Nysæther
Kenneth Nysæther (born 17 February 1970) is a Norwegian footballer who played as both a defender and striker.
Career
Active in both Norway and the Netherlands between 1989 and 2001, Nysæther made over 200 career appearances at high levels, s ...
was a playing assistant coach,
and in 2004
Gunnar Halle
Gunnar Halle (born 11 August 1965) is a Norwegian football manager and former player who played as a right back. He is the current assistant coach of Strømmen. Halle is best known for his playing spells at Oldham Athletic and Leeds United, f ...
was a playing head coach.
References
Official site
Football clubs in Norway
Association football clubs established in 1903
Sport in Akershus
Aurskog-Høland
1903 establishments in Norway
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