SK Brann
Brann Bergen ( officially Sportsklubben Brann) is the biggest football club in the city of Bergen in Norway and Bergen only club in the top Norwegian league, Tippeligaen. The club was founded on 26 September 1908.
Brann play their home games in the 17,000 -seat Brann Stadium, which is currently being expanded to a capacity of about 21,000 spectators. In October 2005, the city and the club decided to build the last missing grandstand on the south side to demolish the former grandstand to the east and to build a cutting-edge new grandstand there. Construction began in December 2005. By the end of 2009, the old grandstand is now to be demolished ( in parts from 1919 ), and rebuilt.
In the seasons 1962, 1963 and 2007, the Norwegian championship was won, the Norwegian Cup was won a total of six times (1923, 1925, 1972, 1976, 1982 and 2004). One of the biggest international success reaching the quarter- finals part in the competition for the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1997. Larger international success remained the club so far failed. The colors of the club are red and white.
Achievements
Norwegian Championship
- Champion: 1962; 1963; 2007
- 2nd Place: 1975; 1997; 2000; 2006
- 3rd place: 1966; 1999; 2004
Norwegian Cup
European Cup
- Repeated participation
- Best Result: Quarter-finals in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1997 (1:1 and 0:3 against Liverpool )
- 2006, the club reached despite a 6th place in the Tippeligaen 2005 at the end of the 2005 season of the UEFA Fair Play ranking the UEFA Cup. After 2002 it succeeded so for the second time in this way.
- In the UEFA Cup 2007/08 season Brann Bergen failed after he was thrown among others, Club Brugge and Dinamo Zagreb from the competition at Everton FC from Liverpool ( 0:2,1:6 ) in the second round.
- In the season 2008/09 SK Brann failed in the third qualifying round for the Champions League to Olympique Marseille.
Famous former players
- Norway Roald Jensen
- Norway Per Egil Ahlsen
- Sweden Joachim Björklund
- Norway Tore André Flo
- Norway Jan-Ove Pedersen
- Norway Martin Andresen
- Norway Claus Lundekvam
- Maynor Suazo Honduras
- Norway Sigurd Wathne
Records
- Biggest home win: 11-0 against Vard Haugesund, June 25, 1997
- Biggest away win: 9-0 against Åkra IL, May 5, 2004
- Heaviest home defeat 0-7 against FC Lyn Oslo, August 8, 1964
- Heaviest away defeat: 0:10 against Rosenborg BK, May 5, 1996
- Attendance record, Brann Stadium: 24,800 vs Fredrikstad FK, October 1, 1961
- Highest Average Attendance: 16,696, 2006 season
- Most Total Games: 557 Goals Nordtvedt 1963-1979
- Most games ( Tippeligaen): 263, gates Nordtvedt
- Most Total Goals: 132, Rolf Birger Pedersen 1957-1972
- Most Goals (Tippeligaen): 63, Steinar Aase 1973-1985
Rivalries
Rivalries maintain the Bergen fans traditionally one of the snooty in her eyes Brussels residents of Vålerenga IF from Oslo. In addition, the stadium is the " regional derby " against Viking Stavanger sold as a rule, and they cherish a passionate dislike of the Lillestrøm SK. Like almost all Norwegian football fans cherish the fans Brann's also an antipathy against the most successful club in the country in recent years, Rosenborg Trondheim. However, it is expressly noted that in Norway such rivalries are played exclusively on the football field as well. Provided support in the stands
Anecdotes
- The " Kniksenprisen " ( Curtseying price), named after the Brann legend Roald " Curtseying " Jensen is awarded annually to the best player of the season. He is sponsored by the Association " Norsk Toppfotball ", a represents the interests of clubs from the Tippeligaen and Adeccoligaen, and the " Knicksenstiftung ". The prize is awarded to the best league players for each position, coaches and referees per season, as well as the best Norwegian players (Norway's player of the year ).
- In the 1980s, Brann was the epitome of a lift team when the club 1979-1987 every year at the end of the season changed the class. This eight-fold sequence of promotion and relegation is a (rather infamous ) world record for this " discipline ".
- Brann is known in Norway for non-constant seasonal trends. A known in Bergen wisdom says something like: " Brann is collapsing, the autumn has begun! " This refers to the alleged inability of the team a good start to the season consistently good season to follow up without late in the season ( in Norway is due to the climate played the season in the calendar year) to break. Nevertheless, the club enjoys enormous loyalty among a majority of the inhabitants of Bergen.
- In addition, not many hopes are being placed in Brann general. This is further clarified " Take to the waters" in a line of the novel by the writer Ragnar Hovland Bergen in which a character " is That if Brann wins the pot! " Comparing to something impossible with the sentence draws.
- The song " Byen e` Mountains " was written by Ove Thue for the 1976 Cup Final. Meanwhile, the song is one of the most famous songs in Norway at all. Even football disinterested Norwegians usually know the melody and the lyrics of the song.
- Not infrequently stood Brann since winning the title again in 1963 before a National Championship. In such years, then drowned " Vi gjør det som i 1963 " Brann Stadium. So far, this hope has been found to the chagrin of fans as unfounded - until the year 2007, when Brann two games remaining had 7 points ahead Stabaek IF and claimed the title prematurely. This title win sparked a tremendous euphoria in anyway patriotic mountains. Nearly 100,000 people celebrated over three weekends with a big screen and fireworks on the streets of downtown.
- Brann is the only Norwegian football club a fan club in New York City.
Chants
The above-mentioned song " Byen é mountains " was long regarded as the club anthem and the chorus is sung 5-10 times a game today:
Popular among the fans is now the song " Hela Brann " the fan - belt " The tolvte man ":
Since the 2007 season, it has the song " Gullet ska ' hem " has prevailed as the most popular song among fans. Along with winning the championship in the same year was " Gullet ska ' hem " (Eng.: The gold (the title ) comes home ) a household word.
Hardly a club in Norway enjoys such iconic status as Brann, so there are a variety of songs. The main performers are the abovementioned Ove Thue and " The tolvte man "