Torp Idrætsforening is a
Norwegian multi-sports club from Torp,
Fredrikstad
Fredrikstad (; previously ''Frederiksstad''; literally "Fredrik's Town") is a city and municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad.
The city of Fredrikstad was founded in 1 ...
,
Østfold
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. It has sections for
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...
,
team handball
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and
amateur wrestling
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. The club was founded on 23 January 1915.
The men's football team plays in the 5. divisjon, the sixth tier of Norwegian football, being promoted from the 2019 5. divisjon. It formerly had a spell in the
3. divisjon from
1997
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through
2003
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. Before the Second World War II, the club contested the
1937–38,
1938–39 and
1939–40 League of Norway
The abandoned 1939–40 Norgesserien would have been the 3rd season of top division football in Norway. The season was interrupted due to German occupation on April 9, 1940, during World War II.
District I
District II, Group A
District II, G ...
.
References
Official siteSportsplassen Torp - Nordic Stadiums
Football clubs in Norway
Sport in Fredrikstad
1915 establishments in Norway
Association football clubs established in 1915
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