Vålerengens Idrettsforening is a Norwegian multi-sports club from the neighbourhood

Vålerenga Vålerenga () is a neighbourhood in the city of Oslo, Norway, belonging to the borough of Gamle Oslo. Vålerenga is located between the neighbourhoods of Gamlebyen, Jordal, Ensjø, Etterstad and Lodalen. Vålerenga is in particular known for i ...

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, founded on 29 July 1913. It has sections for

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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 ...

floorball Floorball (also known by other names) is a sport played with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. It is played indoors with sticks and a hollow plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three periods. The sport of bandy also playe ...

and

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. The

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, ice hockey team and the

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are all multiple national champions. Former sports include

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 ...

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 ...

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and

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. The club became national champions in bandy for women in 1984, 1986, 1987, and 1988. The board of directors of Vålerengens IF is chaired by Stein Morisse.

Major clubs

Vålerenga Ishockey

Vålerenga Ishockey is the most successful club in Norway and the

club in

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with most titles, with 29 regular season titles and 26 playoff championships. They play their home games at

Jordal Amfi Jordal Amfi was an indoor ice hockey rink in Oslo, Norway, the first bearing that name. The venue opened in 1951 to host the 1952 Winter Olympics. Jordal was also the site of the 1958 and the 1999 IIHF World Championship. It would in the follow ...

, close to the

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where the club was established.

Vålerenga Fotball

The

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club has won five league titles since the club was founded in 1913. They play their home games at Intility Arena.

Other clubs

Vålerenga Trolls

Vålerenga Trolls is the

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department of the club. They play their games at Jordal Idrettspark.

Vålerenga Sjakklubb

Vålerenga Sjakklubb, also known as ''Vålerenga Sjakk'', is the

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department of the club. In March 2018, then-world champion

Magnus Carlsen Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, five-time World Rapid Chess Championship, World Rapid Chess Champio ...

, joined the club. Vålerenga Sjakklubb will participate in the 2018 European Chess Club Cup.

Vålerenga Baseball

Vålerenga Baseball began play in 2022, going undefeated in the regular season and winning both the Eliteserien and Norwegian Championship in their first season. In 2023, the club recorded a second undefeated regular season, a shared Norwegian Championship and runner-up in the Eliteserien. In 2024, the club finished second at the WBSC Europe Federation Cup Qualifiers in Slovenia and won the Norwegian Championship. They play their home games at Rommen Baseball Park in Oslo.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Valerengens If Sports clubs and teams in Oslo Association football clubs established in 1913 Bandy clubs established in 1913 Ice hockey clubs established in 1913 Defunct athletics clubs in Norway Defunct bandy clubs in Norway Handball clubs in Norway 1913 establishments in Norway Multi-sport clubs in Norway