Øvrevoll Hosle Idrettslag is a Norwegian multi-sports club from eastern Bærum.

Organization and history

Sections are

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

, baseball, association football, ski jumping,

cross-country skiing Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

, and

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

. The club covers the areas Øvrevoll, Voll,

Grav Grav may refer to: People * Ray Gravell (1951-2007), Welsh rugby union player * (born 1973), Norwegian astrophysicist Places * Grav, Bærum, Norway * Grav, Viken, Norway Physics * General Relativity and Gravitation * Gravitational constant O ...

, parts of Bekkestua and Jar as well as Hosle. The club colors are white. The club was founded on 26 September 2007 as a merger of ''Øvrevoll BK'' and ''Hosle IL''. Hosle IL was founded in 1947 as ''Grav og Voll IL''. The name was changed to ''IL Bæring'' and later Hosle when Bæring merged with ''Hosletoppen''. Øvrevoll BK was founded on 26 April 1955 as ''Øvrevollkameratene''. The football and bandy teams of the two clubs had cooperated long before the actual merger.

Sports

The men's bandy team plays in the First Division, the second tier. It played in the Premier League as late as in 2005–06. The men's football team played in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football, until 2010, when they pulled their team because of a lack of players. Its best known player was Andreas Hauger, who played for the team in 2009. The best known female footballer is Siri Nordby, who started her career there. Handball player Karoline Dyhre Breivang started her career in Hosle. The best known club member overall is ski jumper Bjørn Einar Romøren.

References

Official site
Football clubs in Norway Bandy clubs in Norway Ski jumping clubs in Norway Sport in Bærum Association football clubs established in 2007 Bandy clubs established in 2007 Handball clubs established in 2007 2007 establishments in Norway {{skijumping-stub