Idrettsforeningen Fram, better known as Fram Larvik to distinguish it from other sport clubs, is a sports club from Torstrand in

Larvik Larvik () is a List of cities in Norway, town and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. The municipality ...

, Norway. It has sections for association football, athletics,

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 g ...

and speed skating.

General history

The club was founded on 15 January 1894. That makes Fram Norway's oldest existing association football club. It is often known as ''Fram Larvik'', mainly to distinguish it from

IL Fram Idrettslaget Fram is a Norwegian sports club from Skatval, Nord-Trøndelag. It has sections for association football, team handball, track and field and volleyball. It was founded in 1892. It is currently chaired by Eli Arnstad. The men' ...

from Skatval.

Football

The men's football team currently plays in the

Norwegian Second Division The Norwegian Second Division, also called 2. divisjon and often referred to as PostNord-ligaen for sponsorship reasons, is the third-highest level of the Norwegian football league system. There are 28 teams divided into two groups, and at the ...

, the third tier of the Norwegian football league system. The club reached the final of the 1912 Norwegian Cup. Fram won the final 2–1, but the opponent Mercantile claimed that Fram had used an illegit player. The Norwegian FA ruled a replay the next weekend. On 20 October 1912, Fram lost the replay 0–6 against Mercantile at Gamle Frogner Stadion in Kristiania. The club's greatest achievement came in 1950, when the club won the 1949–50 Hovedserien, the

Norwegian top division Eliteserien () 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. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promoti ...

. Fram played in the Second Division to

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, but was down to the 4. divisjon for a period after relegation in the

1999 3. divisjon The 1999 season of the ''3. divisjon'', the fourth highest association football league for men in Norway. Between 20 and 24 games (depending on group size) were played in 19 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. All group winners we ...

campaign. After that, the team was remade to

Larvik Fotball Larvik Fotball was a Norwegian association football club from Larvik. It existed from late 1999 to early 2004, and both succeeded and was succeeded by IF Fram. A cooperation between several Larvik-based clubs, it experienced two straight prom ...

, which won several promotions and resided in the 2. divisjon for some years. The cooperation club Larvik Fotball ceased to exist in late 2004, and the 2005 2. divisjon was played as IF Fram, but with abysmal results. After a few seasons back in the 3. divisjon, however, Fram won the league in 2008 and the subsequent playoffs, and has played in the 2. divisjon since.

Petter Belsvik Petter Belsvik (born 2 October 1967) is a Norwegian football coach and former player, who played as a striker. With 159 goals in the Norwegian Premier League he ranks third in the all-time goalscorer statistics, behind Harald Brattbakk. He never ...

took over as head coach after the 2013 season from Tom Helge Jacobsen. In 2021 Haakon Lunov is head coach of Fram Football arter signing a two-year contract. Notable footballers include

Tom Rüsz Jacobsen Tom Rüsz Jacobsen (born 20 February 1953) is a retired Norwegian footballer. He was a goalkeeper, and played 26 matches for Norway. He won the league two times and the Norwegian Cup one time with Vålerenga. Club career Jacobsen played for Vål ...

, Kenneth Stenild,

Lars Bakkerud Lars Bakkerud (born 1 June 1971) is a retired Norwegian football midfielder and later manager. After ending his professional career, he became player-manager of Norheimsund in 2007. He also took a 30% position as director of sports in Løv-Ham. ...

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Jonny Hansen and Sverre Hansen.

Honours

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: **Winners (1): 1949–50 * Norwegian Football Cup: **Runners-up (1):

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Recent seasons

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Handball

The club also have a handball team, that plays in the First Division, the second highest tier in men's handball. Ole Kristian Strøm is the coach, and they play their matches in Framhallen. Notable handballers include Eivind Ellingsen,

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and

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Speed skating

Notable speed skaters in Fram include Bjørg Eva Jensen, Tom Erik Oxholm,

Roger Strøm Roger Strøm (born 28 July 1966 in Sandefjord) is a Norwegian speed skater. Strøm was Norway's best speed skating sprinter during the 1990s. His best seasons were from 1994 to 1997. During the 1994 Olympics he finished 7th over 1000 metres ...

, Else Marie Christiansen,

Minna Nystedt Minna Rosita Nystedt (born 11 October 1967) is a Norwegian speed skater, born in Levanger. She competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro ...

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Bjørn Tveter Bjørn Tveter (born 13 June 1944) is a former Norwegian speed skater. He competed in the 1500 m event at the 1968 and 1972 Winter Olympics and finished fifth and fourth, respectively. He won a bronze medal over this distance at the 1968 World A ...

and

Øyvind Tveter Øyvind Tveter (born 28 March 1954) is a former Norwegian speed skater who competed internationally in the 1970s and 1980s. At the 1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Pl ...

References

External links

Official websiteFramparken on Nordic Stadiums
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