Vestli IL
Encyclopedia
Vestli Idrettslag is a Norwegian
sports club from Stovner
borough, Oslo
. It has sections for association football, team handball
and tennis
.
It was founded on 19 October 1972. The club colors are green and white.
The men's handball team formerly played in the highest Norwegian league
. Players include Bjarte Myrhol
and Kristian Kjelling
.
The men's football team currently plays in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football. It formerly cooperated to prop up an umbrella team called Groruddalen BK
, but this team went defunct in 2008.
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 Stovner
Stovner
Stovner is a borough located to the far north east of the city of Oslo, Norway. Historically, Stovner was the name of a farm in the municipal borough "Østre Aker". Østre Aker merged with Oslo in 1948, both instigated and followed by a massive expansion of the city settlement...
borough, Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
. It has sections for association football, 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 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...
.
It was founded on 19 October 1972. The club colors are green and white.
The men's handball team formerly played in the highest Norwegian league
Postenligaen
-2010–11 season teams:*BSK/NIF*Drammen HK*Elverum*Follo*Fyllingen*Haslum HK*Oppsal IF*Runar*Stord*Viking HK*Vålerenga*ØIF Arendal- External links:*...
. Players include Bjarte Myrhol
Bjarte Myrhol
Bjarte Håkon Myrhol is a Norwegian handball player who currently plays for Rhein-Neckar Löwen, a team based in Mannheim, Germany.Before joining Nordhorn, he played for Veszprém and the Norwegian clubs Sandefjord and Vestli....
and Kristian Kjelling
Kristian Kjelling
Kristian Cato Walby Kjelling is a Norwegian handball player who currently plays in for Danish club AaB Håndbold, a team based in Aalborg.-Career:...
.
The men's football team currently plays in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football. It formerly cooperated to prop up an umbrella team called Groruddalen BK
Groruddalen BK
Groruddalen Ballklubb was a Norwegian association football club from Groruddalen, Oslo.The club came into existence through the merger of a number of local clubs in 2002, but went defunct again in 2008, after some of those clubs withdrew their backing...
, but this team went defunct in 2008.