Malvik Idrettslag is a Norwegian multi-sports club from

Malvik Malvik is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Trondheim Region. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Hommelvik. Other villages in Malvik include Muruvika, Smiskaret, Sneisen, Vikhammer, ...

Sør-Trøndelag Sør-Trøndelag () was a county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. To the west is the No ...

. It has sections for association football, team handball, athletics, orienteering, Nordic skiing, swimming, cycling and canoeing. A club named Malvik IL was formed on 22 January 1933; the official founding date became 1 February. The club was a member of the

Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund The Workers' Federation of Sports ( no, Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund), often just called the AIF, was a sporting organization in Norway between 1924 and 1946.Heinemann, Klaus. Sport Clubs in Various European Countries'. Schorndorf: Hofmann .a. 1999 ...

. After the

occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the ...

, during which the club was dormant, the club merged with ''IL Vidar'', founded 7 November 1939. The club also got an influx of members from the club ''Malvik TIF'', which had gone completely defunct during the occupation. The name Vidar was chosen as the club's name. However the Confederation of Sports (which had absorbed ''Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund'') refused the name Vidar, and Malvik IL was chosen instead.History
The men's football team plays in the Fourth Division (fifth tier). The club played in the

Norwegian Third Division The Norwegian Third Division, also called 3. divisjon, is the fourth highest division of the men's football league in Norway. Like the rest of the Norwegian football league system, the season runs from spring to autumn, running approximately from ...

as late as in

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