Volda TI (''Volda Turn- og Idrottslag'') is a sports club in

Volda Volda is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Volda. Other villages in the municipality include Dravlaus, Fyrde, Straumshamn, Leira, Bjørke, and ...

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is t ...

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. It currently has sections for

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and "general sports". The club was founded as ''Voldens TF'' in 1899 as a gymnastics club. Other sports were added later, including

in 1916. The name was changed to ''Volda TI'' in 1945. In 1998, the club was organized as an alliance sports team, which had two overarching legal entities: Football and general sports (Allidrett). It currently has sections for association football, alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, swimming, frisbee-golf and children's athletics. The handball branch of the club in 2007 split from the Alliance and formed the Volda Handballclub. , the men's football team will play in the

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, the fourth tier of the

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; the squad had been promoted to compete in the

2020 3. divisjon The 2020 3. divisjon (referred to as Norsk Tipping-ligaen for sponsorship reasons) was scheduled to be a fourth-tier Norwegian football league season. The league was supposed to consist of 84 teams divided into 6 groups of 14 teams each and should ...

season, but the season was cancelled due to the

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. The club had a long stint in the 2. divisjon before being relegated after the 1999 season. They briefly returned to the 2. divisjon for the 2004 season, after winning promotion in the 2003 3. divisjon playoffs but were relegated to 3. divisjon for the 2005 season.

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External links

Official site
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