Nordkinn Fotballklubb is a Norwegian

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club from

Mehamn Mehamn (; ) is the administrative centre of Gamvik Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the small Vedvik peninsula, itself part of the greater Nordkinn Peninsula, at the southern end of the Mehamnfjorden, a bay off ...

Finnmark Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...

. It was founded on 22 November 1992 as a merger of the football sections of the clubs IL Nordkyn from

Kjøllefjord , , or is the administrative centre of Lebesby Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the northwestern part of the Nordkinn Peninsula, on the shore of a small fjord which empties into the larger Laksefjorden. The vil ...

and Mehamn IL. The club colors are red. The men's football team currently plays in the Fourth Division, the fifth tier of Norwegian football. Their current run on the Third Division stretches from

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

; they previously had a run from

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

External links

Mehamn Gressbane - Nordic Stadiums

Kjøllefjord Stadion - Nordic Stadiums

References

Football clubs in Norway Association football clubs established in 1992 Sport in Finnmark 1992 establishments in Norway {{Norway-footyclub-stub