Stabæk Idrætsforening is a Norwegian multi-sports club in

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, a municipality bordering on

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in the west. 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 ...

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, 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 playin ...

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

alpine skiing Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel Ski binding, bindings, unlike other types of skiing (Cross-country skiing, cross-country, Telemark skiing, Telemark, or ski jumping) ...

. While the football team

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is the most prominent, the men's bandy team has taken multiple national championships. The women's handball team plays in the first tier of Norwegian handball, and the men's team on the third tier. The club formerly had sections for

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competitio ...

sport shooting Shooting sports is a group of competitive sport, competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airg ...

and

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. In early 2009 a new women's football team was started within Stabæk IF and was named Stabæk Fotball Kvinner, in reality a relocation of

Asker Fotball Asker Fotball is the football department of Norwegian sports club Asker SK from Asker. The women's football team is one of the most successful clubs ever in Norway, with six top flight championships and five cup championships. Due to financia ...

's women's team.

History

The club was founded on 16 March 1912, really as a continuation of the club ''Stabæk SFK'' from 1908. In 1922 it absorbed some neighboring clubs ''Grav IF'', ''Haslum SK'' and ''Stabekk AK'', and in 1926 it absorbed ''Stabekk BK'', which had rejected a merger in 1922.''Stabæk Idrætsforening 75 år'', p. 11 It still had a local competitor in the workers' club ''Stabekk AIL'', which was organized in

Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund The Workers' Federation of Sports (), often just called the AIF, was a sporting organization in Norway (mostly out of Norway) between 1924 and 1946.Heinemann, Klaus. Sport Clubs in Various European Countries'. Schorndorf: Hofmann .a. 1999. p. 27 ...

. Around 1930 the shooting section broke out of Stabæk IF and founded its own club. During the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, Stabæk IF was disbanded by Axel Heiberg Stang and Egil Reichborn-Kjennerud on 21 June 1941. So as to avoid forced nazification by the Quisling regime, an action taken by most Norwegian sports clubs. Reichborn-Kjennerud even lived at Skallum farm, near an old ice rink used by Stabæk. The club was re-founded after the war's end. The next section to become defunct was the athletics section, which was dissolved in 1985. Stabæk had a number of nationally competitive athletes, including Per Stavem,

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, Thor Tangen, Leif Uggen, Rolf Arveland, Rolf Kluge and Sturla Kaasa, and also

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. The

section later went defunct.

Localization

Its name is taken from the area

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, and the club headquarters are located at Ringstabekk, but the club activities except bandy and skiing have been centered on Nadderud and

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the recent years. In 1990 the club presented grandiose plans: at Nadderud, the grass pitch Bekkestuabanen would be an ice arena with a grandstand and adjoining buildings. A field north of Bekkestuabanen would become an underheated gravel pitch for football. A new indoor arena would be built near Nadderudhallen; the road which leads to Nadderudhallen would in that case disappear. The new clubrooms would be in the lower secondary school ''Bekkestua'', which Stabæk suggested to abolish. The club also proposed to turn the upper secondary school ''Nadderud'' into a conference center for elite sports. Stabæk would in such a scenario leave the headquarters at Ringstabekk behind, swapping it with the municipality for help with the grandiose plans. Not one of the suggestions materialized. In 2009 the football section relocated somewhat as they inaugurated the new stadium

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Bandy

*Norwegian champion: 1952, 1953, 1955, 1977, 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 og 2011. *Premier league wins: 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2011.

Football

Men

*Norwegian cup champion in football 1998. *League champion in football 2008.

Women

*Norwegian champion in football 2011, 2012 and 2013. *League champion in football 2010 and 2013.

Handball

*Norwegian champion in women's handball 1971. *Norwegian champion in men's handball 1969. *Norwegian runner-up in women's handball cup 2011, 2012 and 2017.

Notable former players

* Karoline Dyhre Breivang * Linn Jørum Sulland * Stine Bredal Oftedal * Hanna Bredal Oftedal * Sanna Solberg * Silje Solberg * Karoline Mamelund * Linn Gossé * Janne Tuven * Monica Vik Hansen * Jeanette Nilsen * Heidi Halvorsen * Siv Heim Sæbøe * Malin Holta * Helene Gigstad Fauske * Jenny Osnes Græsholt * Henny Reistad

Alpine

* Sverre Johannessen, Norwegian champion in

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and downhill 1947. * Johan Rolf Flattum, Norwegian champion 1953. * Dikke Eger-Bergmann, Norwegian champion in

slalom skiing Slalom is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline, involving skiing between poles or gates. These are spaced more closely than those in giant slalom, super-G, super giant slalom and Downhill (ski competition), downhill, necessitating ...

1961, 1966 and 1967,

giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding competitive discipline. It involves racing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in Slalom skiing, slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant sl ...

1966 and

1966 and 1967. * Anne Berge, Norwegian champion in giant slalom 1983 and 1994, alpine combined 1989. *Berit Strand, Norwegian champion in slalom 1965. *Lasse Thue, Norwegian champion in slalom 1972. *Fredrik Zimmer, Norwegian champion in giant slalom 1986 *Torjus Berge, Norwegian champion in slalom 1986. *Kjersti Nilsen, Norwegian champion in slalom 1987. *Janne Ugelstad, Norwegian champion in combined and downhill 1987. * Jeanette Lunde, Norwegian champion in downhill 1995. *Morten Møller, Norwegian champion in

Telemark skiing Telemark skiing is a skiing technique that combines elements of Alpine skiing, Alpine and Nordic skiing, Nordic skiing, using the rear foot to keep balance while pushing on the front foot to create a carving turn on downhill skis with toe-only ...

1995, 1996 and 1997. * Lotte Smiseth Sejersted, Norwegian champion in slalom in 2011, giant slalom in 2009 and 2011,

Super-G Super giant slalom, or super-G, is a racing discipline of alpine skiing. Along with the faster downhill, it is regarded as a "speed" event, in contrast to the technical events giant slalom and slalom. It debuted as an official World Cup event ...

2009 and 2011, downhill 2007, 2010 and 2011,

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2009, 2010 and 2011, Junior World Champion in downhill 2011.

Athletics

* Per Stavem, Norwegian champion in

shot put The shot put is a track-and-field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical Ball (sports), ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. For men, the sport has been a part of the Olympic Games, modern Olympics since their 1896 Summer Olym ...

1951 and 1952, Norwegian champion in

standing long jump The standing long jump, also known as the standing broad jump, is an athletics event. It was an Olympic event until 1912. It is one of three standing variants of track and field jumping events, which also include the standing high jump an ...

1952.

Ice hockey

*Norwegian champion in

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

1947.

References

External links

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Stabæk Alpint

Stabæk Fotball

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