Sogndal Fotball
The Sogndal Fotball is a Norwegian football club from the city Sogndalsfjøra the municipality Sogndal in Sogn og Fjordane Fylke. Currently playing in the highest Norwegian league, Tippeligaen. Homestead is the Fosshaugane campus with a capacity of about 5,400 seats. The colors of the club are white-black- yellow.
History
The club was founded on 19 February 1926, the name Idrettslag Sogndal, Sogndal IL shortly. The first decades after the foundation of the association were normal in the lowlands of the Norwegian amateur football before one 1964 first ascent managed in the third Norwegian league.
In 1976 they managed just 50-year club anniversary promotion to the second Norwegian league. In the same year the largely unknown team succeeded with the achievement of the Norwegian Cup final a sensation. In the final, they lost despite a strong performance of all the lying also on the Norwegian west coast rivals SK Brann Bergen 1-2.
1981 was followed by a further milestone in the club's history, as the first time you managed to climb in the first Norwegian league, from which one had to go back but after just one season.
It was followed by two decades as a lift club where you commuted between first and second league back and forth. After the last date of promotion to the 2000 season, it was the first time over a longer distance up to 2005 class before one, albeit unfortunate, but once relegated to the second division. In 2010, Sogndal managed as champions of the second division to return to Norwegian football House of Lords.
Known player
Sogndal sees itself as a training club and is regarded in Norway as a hotbed of talent. Among other things come later Norwegian National Frode Grodås, Eirik Bakke, Jostein, Håvard and Tore André Flo youth of the association.
The most important personality of the Association shall Svein Bakke, a member of the generation of 1976, which advanced all the way to the Cup final. With 321 goals in 512 appearances for Sogndal He is also scorer of the club. His son Eirik Bakke became in the 90's the star of the team, before it was sold for the internal club record fee of the equivalent of about € 2.6 million to England at Leeds United.
Norwegian
- Eirik Bakke
- Svein Bakke
- Håvard Flo
- Jostein Flo
- Frode Grodås
- Even Hovland
- Tore André Flo
- Alexander Ødegaard
- Christian Kalvenes
- Kjetil Pedersen
- Terje Skjeldestad
Legionaries
- Trevor Morley
- Kurt Mørkøre
- Teemu Turunen
- Constant Djakpa
- Marco Reda
- Robbie Russell
Stadium
The club plays its home matches at the Fosshaugane campus. The pure football stadium has a capacity of about 5400 spectators. Of these 4000 seats. The renovated sports complex was opened in the 2-0 victory against Bryne FK on 7 July 2006. The addition of " Campus" carries the stadium because of the built into the stadium grounds college and school. Next is the stadium with the adjacent Sognhallen, a multi-purpose sports hall, connected.
Achievements
- Norwegian Cup finalist: 1976
- Play -off winner Adecco Ligaen: 2000
- Master of Adecco Ligaen 2010