FK Larvik
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FK Larvik is a Norwegian
women's football
club from Larvik
, founded in 1997 through a merger of the women's football sections of Nanset IF and Halsen IF.
The senior team currently plays in the Toppserien, the highest tier of Norwegian women's football, after promoting from the First Division in 2007.
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...
women's football
Women's football (soccer)
Women's association football has been played for many decades, but was associated with charity games and physical exercise in the past before the breakthrough of organized women's association football came in the 1970s. Before the 1970s, football was basically seen as a men's game...
club from Larvik
Larvik
is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. Larvik kommune - has about 41 364 inhabitants and covers 530 km2....
, founded in 1997 through a merger of the women's football sections of Nanset IF and Halsen IF.
The senior team currently plays in the Toppserien, the highest tier of Norwegian women's football, after promoting from the First Division in 2007.