Holmen IF
Encyclopedia
Holmen Idrettsforening is a Norwegian
sports club from Holmen in northern Asker
, Norway. It has sections for football
, handball
and cross-country skiing
. Its home ground is Holmen idrettspark.
The club was founded in 1918, at that time having sections for football, athletics and ski jumping
. More sports were later added to the club, notably ice hockey
as Holmen IF was one of the founding members of the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation
in 1934, as well as tennis
. Another local sports club Hvalstad IF was merged into Holmen IF some time after 1945. In 1997 the tennis section broke away to form Holmen TK, and the same thing happened to the ice hockey section in 1998.
The men's football team will play in the Norwegian Third Division (fourth tier) in 2008, having won promotion in the 2007 season. It last played in the Third Division in 2002, and had one stint in the Second Division in 1994
.
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...
sports club from Holmen in northern Asker
Asker
Asker is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Viken traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Asker. The municipality is a suburb of Oslo, the national capital...
, Norway. It has sections for 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...
, 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...
and cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...
. Its home ground is Holmen idrettspark.
The club was founded in 1918, at that time having sections for football, athletics and ski jumping
Ski jumping
Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down a take-off ramp, jump and attempt to land as far as possible down the hill below. In addition to the length of the jump, judges give points for style. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long...
. More sports were later added to the club, notably ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
as Holmen IF was one of the founding members of the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation
Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation
The Norwegian Ice Hockey Association is the governing body of all ice hockey, sledge hockey and in-line hockey in Norway.NIHF has its office at Ullevaal Stadium in Oslo....
in 1934, as well as tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
. Another local sports club Hvalstad IF was merged into Holmen IF some time after 1945. In 1997 the tennis section broke away to form Holmen TK, and the same thing happened to the ice hockey section in 1998.
The men's football team will play in the Norwegian Third Division (fourth tier) in 2008, having won promotion in the 2007 season. It last played in the Third Division in 2002, and had one stint in the Second Division in 1994
1994 Norwegian Second Division
The 1994 season of the 2. divisjon, the third highest association football league for men in Norway.22 games were played in 6 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Sarpsborg, Odd, Sandefjord, Haugesund, Aalesund and Stålkameratene were promoted to the First Division. Number ten,...
.