Kjøkkelvik Idrettslag is a
Norwegian sports club from
Loddefjord
Loddefjord is an urban settlement in the borough of Laksevåg in the municipality of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula i ...
,
Bergen
Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo.
By May 20 ...
. It has sections for
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
,
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor 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 thr ...
and
gymnastics
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.
The club was founded on 7 October 1934. It participated in official football matches from 1939, and added the sports gymnastics in 1950 and handball in 1973.
The men's handball team has played in the
Premier League
The Premier League is a professional association football league in England and the highest level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football Lea ...
.
The men's football team currently resides in the Fifth Division (sixth tier). It last played in the
Third Division in
2001
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References
Official site
Football clubs in Norway
Association football clubs established in 1934
Sport in Bergen
Handball clubs in Norway
1934 establishments in Norway
Multi-sport clubs in Norway
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