Gjøvik Fotballforening is a Norwegian

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...

 football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club from Gjøvik

Gjøvik

is a town and a municipality in Oppland county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Gjøvik.In 1861, the village of Gjøvik in the municipality of Vardal was granted town status and was separated from Vardal to form a separate municipality...

, founded in 2008. It currently plays in the Norwegian Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football.

History

The club was established on 8 October 2008 as a merger of the senior teams of SK Gjøvik-Lyn

SK Gjøvik-Lyn

SK Gjøvik/Lyn is a Norwegian football club based in Gjøvik, which was founded on 1 February 1902. Their home ground was Gjøvik Stadion.Its honours include the 1962 Norwegian Cup. The men's team played in the Third Division in 2008, and in the Second Division as late as in 2007, but ahead of the...

 and Vardal IF. The clubs Vind and Redalen were asked to join, but declined. In May 2009 it faced Rosenborg BK in the Norwegian football cup, losing 0–4 in front of a 5,000 attendance. In 2010 it won its Third Division group, but lost out in a promotion playoff against Elverum

Elverum Fotball

Elverum Fotball is the association football section of the sports club Elverum IL from Elverum, Norway.-History:It was founded on 30 June 1907 under the name Elverum Footballklub....

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