Langhus Idrettslag 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...

 sports club from Langhus

Langhus

Langhus is a village in the municipality of Ski in Norway with a population of about 13,000. Langhus includes the local areas of Bøleråsen, Vevelstad and Langhus.-Transport:...

, founded in 1953. It has sections for association football, basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

, golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

, 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...

 and gymnastics

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

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The men's football team currently plays in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football. Langhus stadion is their home field. Their team colors are maroon and white. The club also cooperates with Follo FK.

Some former players have reached top levels in the sport: Anders Michelsen

Anders Michelsen

Anders Michelsen is a retired Norwegian football midfielder.He started his career in Langhus IL, and joined Drøbak/Frogn ahead of the 1990 season. He played for SFK Lyn in 1993, and then rejoined Drøbak/Frogn. In 1996 he played for Skeid in the Norwegian Premier League. Ahead of the 2008 season he...

, Thomas Michelsen

Thomas Michelsen

Thomas Michelsen is a retired Norwegian football midfielder.He started his career in Langhus IL, and joined Drøbak/Frogn ahead of the 1990 season. He played for SFK Lyn in 1993, and then rejoined Drøbak/Frogn. In 1996 he played for Skeid in the Norwegian Premier League. Ahead of the 1998 season he...

, Glenn Arne Hansen, Kjetil Nilsen

Kjetil Nilsen

Kjetil Nilsen is a Norwegian football midfielder.He started his career in Langhus IL; and later played for Ski IL, Drøbak/Frogn IF and Lillestrøm SK. With Lillestrøm he played in the Norwegian Premier League in 1998, 1999 and 2000. He then played for Skjetten SK and Follo FK.In February 2009...

, Ronny Løvlien

Ronny Løvlien

Ronny Løvlien is a Norwegian football defender.He started his career in Langhus IL, and later played with Skeid in the Norwegian Premier League and Follo. Having helped win promotion to the First Division, he left Follo in favor of a return to Langhus...

, Kenneth Løvlien and Manchester United youth player Etzaz Hussain.