Greåker Idrettsforening is a Norwegian

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 ...

club from Greåker,

Sarpsborg Sarpsborg ( or ), historically Borg, is a city and municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Sarpsborg. Sarpsborg is part of the fifth largest urban area in Norway when paired with neigh ...

Østfold Østfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in southeastern Norway. It borders Akershus and southwestern Sweden (Västra Götaland County and Värmland), while Buskerud and Vestfold are on the other sid ...

. The club was founded on 6 April 1919. The club colours are grey and red. The club has formerly had sections for

Nordic skiing Nordic skiing encompasses the various types of skiing in which the toe of the ski boot is fixed to the binding in a manner that allows the heel to rise off the ski, unlike alpine skiing, where the boot is attached to the ski from toe to heel. Re ...

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 ...

team handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the ...

and

amateur wrestling Amateur wrestling is a variant of wrestling practiced in collegiate, school, or other amateur level competitions. There are two international wrestling styles performed in the Olympic Games: freestyle and Greco-Roman. Both styles are under the ...

. The men's football team plays in the 5. divisjon, the sixth tier of Norwegian football. It was formerly a staple in the 3. divisjon, but was last relegated from there in

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. Its best player has been

Raymond Kvisvik Raymond Kvisvik (born 8 November 1974) is a Norwegian former professional association football, footballer who played as a winger (association football), winger. He is most noted for his spells at SK Brann, Brann, but he did also play for Moss F ...

. Earlier, after the Second World War II, the club had a spell in the highest league of Norway from 1958–59 to 1961–62.

References

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