Drammen HK
Founded
Full Name	Drammen Håndballklubb
Arena	Drammenshallen
Club Colours	Blue
Website	www.dhk.no

Drammen HK is a 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...

 club from Drammen

Drammen

Drammen is a city in Buskerud County, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the eastern and most populated part of Norway.-Location:...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. Currently, Drammen HK competes in the Norwegian First League of Handball.

The club was founded on March 3, 1992. The foundation was the result of a long going project where handball clubs in Drammen and Lier

Lier, Norway

Lier is an affluent municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lier. The municipality of Lier was established on 1 January 1838...

 gathered to discuss how to build a "Top Team" candidate for the region. The project resulted in two clubs joining forces - Reistad IL from Lier and IF Sturla

IF Sturla

Idrettsforeningen Sturla is a Norwegian sports club from Drammen, founded in 1923. It has sections for athletics, orienteering and skiing.The athletics uses Marienlyst stadion as their home field....

 from Drammen. The two clubs transferred their senior players to the new club, but continued as separate entities concentrating on development of children and youngsters. The colors of Drammen HK became blue - the same color as background of the city coat of arms.

Reistad IL was qualified to play in Norway Premier Division, so Drammen really got a flying start starting at the top level. Unfortunately Drammen did not make it through and was degraded to the Second Division the year after. However, In 1993 Drammen HK signed the Swedish trainer Kent Harry Anderson, and returned to the Premier Division after one year. This was the beginning of a series of successes that was crowned in 1995, bringing home the City Cup as the first Norwegian club ever to win a European title.

Some of the best Norway international players started their senior careers at Drammen HK, such as Glenn Solberg, Frode Hagen

Frode Hagen

Frode Hagen is a Norwegian handball player. He played 188 matches and scored 574 goals for the Norway national handball team between 1994 and 2008. He participated at the 2001 and 2005 World Men's Handball Championship.-References:...

 and Kristian Kjelling

Kristian Kjelling

Kristian Cato Walby Kjelling is a Norwegian handball player who currently plays in for Danish club AaB Håndbold, a team based in Aalborg.-Career:...

.

Achievements

• EHF Challenge Cup
  EHF Challenge Cup
  The EHF Challenge Cup is an official European Handball Federation competition for men's clubs of Europe and takes place every year. Before 1999/2000, it was called EHF City Cup....
  
  : 1

1996

• Norwegian Premier Division: 4

2009/10

2007/08

2006/07

1996/97

• Norwegian Championship (NM): 1

2007

• Norwegian Playoffs: 3

2006/07

1997/98

1995/96