The Sandnes Oilers are an American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 team based in Sandnes

Sandnes

is a city and municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is part of the region of Jæren.-History:Sandnes was separated from Høyland as a municipality of its own in 1860, and gained city status the same year...

, 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...

. They are currently members of the Norway American Football Federation

Norway American Football Federation

The Norway American Football Federation is the largest American football league in Norway, consisting of eleven teams from Norwegian cities and universities. The league is divided into two levels of competition and four age categories: Senior, Under 19, Under 16, and Under 13...

 (NoAFF). The team was founded in 1991 and was based in Stavanger

Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

 before moving to Sandnes in 1992. The team played its first season in 1993, winning all games in the NoAFF Division II. The team plays its home games at Giskebanen Field in Sandnes. The Oilers competed in NoAFF Division I between 1994 and 1998 followed by three seasons in Division II before returning to Division I play in 2002.

In addition to fielding a team at the senior level (ages 18 and above), the Oilers also fielded an U-19 team from 1995 till 2002, winning the Norwegian Championship in 1998 with a 8-0 record (136 points for, 0 points against).