Bygdø Monolitten Idrettslag is a Norwegian

Norway

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 sports club from Bygdøy

Bygdøy

Bygdøy or Bygdø is a peninsula on the western side of Oslo, Norway. Administratively, Bygdøy belongs to the borough of Frogner.Bygdøy has several museums, like the Kon-Tiki Museum, which shows all year long the legendary expeditions of Thor Heyerdahl; the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History ; the...

 and Skøyen

Skøyen

Skøyen is a neighborhood of Oslo, Norway. It is located in the western part of the city, in the borough of Ullern.The name "Skøyen" comes from Old Norse Skǫðin, of unknown etymology....

, Frogner

Frogner

Frogner is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway. In addition to traditional Frogner, the borough incorporates Bygdøy, Uranienborg and Majorstuen....

, Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

. It has sections for association football, team handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

, floorball

Floorball

Floorball, a type of floor hockey, is an indoor team sport which was developed in the 1970s in Sweden. Floorball is most popular in areas where the sport has developed the longest, such as the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The game is played...

 and badminton

Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

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History

The club was founded on 29 May 1914 under the name Djerv. The name was changed to Skøien BK in 1915 and to Skøien IF as the club started to participate in non-ball game

Ball game

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s. However the name was changed to Bygdø BK, "Bygdø Ball Club", in 1927.

The club added Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing is a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing....

 in 1923, track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

 in 1929 and bandy

Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

 in 1934. All these were later abolished. The club got its own sports field with gravel surface in 1934, and a grass pitch in 1947. The grass pitch was changed to artificial turf in 2007, the same year that the name Ferd Stadion was inaugurated. The club colors are red and blue.

On 9 November 1998 another club named Monolitten IL was founded. Among others, it offered the sport of floorball. On 12 April 2005 it was merged with Bygdø BK under the name Bygdø Monolitten IL. Monolitten is the Norwegian name for "The Monolith" in Vigeland Sculpture Park.

Floorball

Since the introduction of floorball, the club has seen success in this sport. The men's floorball team was promoted from the Fourth Division in 2006–07 to playing the Second Division in 2008–09. In 2010–11 it will play in the First Division. Also in 2010–11, the women's floorball team will play in the Premier League, the first team in the club to achieve such a feat.

Football

The men's football team currently plays in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football. Its current stint in the Third Division runs from 2004

2004 Norwegian Third Division

The 2004 season of the 3. divisjon, the fourth highest association football league for men in Norway.22 games were played in 24 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws...

. Well-known players include Sven Morisbak, Rune Danielsen and Per Olav Sætre.