Bygdø Monolitten Idrettslag is a Norwegian sports club from Bygdøy and

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, Frogner,

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floorball Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. Men and women play indoors with sticks and a plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. The sport of bandy also played a role ...

and

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History

The club was founded on 29 May 1914 under the name ''Djerv''. The name was changed to ''Skøien BK'' in 1915 and to ''Skøien IF'' as the club started to participate in non-

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s. However the name was changed to ''Bygdø BK'', "Bygdø Ball Club", in 1927. The club added

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in 1923,

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

in 1929 and

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 ...

in 1934. All these were later abolished. The club got its own sports field with gravel surface in 1934, and a grass pitch in 1947. The grass pitch was changed to artificial turf in 2007, the same year that the name Ferd Stadion was inaugurated. The club colors are red and blue. On 9 November 1998 another club named ''Monolitten IL'' was founded. Among others, it offered the sport of floorball. On 12 April 2005 it was merged with ''Bygdø BK'' under the name ''Bygdø Monolitten IL''. ''Monolitten'' is the Norwegian name for "The Monolith" in

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Floorball

Since the introduction of floorball, the club has seen success in this sport. The men's floorball team was promoted from the Fourth Division in 2006–07 to playing the Second Division in 2008–09. In 2010–11 it will play in the First Division. Also in 2010–11, the women's floorball team will play in the Premier League, the first team in the club to achieve such a feat.

Football

The men's football team currently plays in the Fourth Division, the fifth tier of Norwegian football, after being relegated from the

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. The relegation ended a stint in the Third Division from

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. Well-known players include Sven Morisbak, Rune Danielsen and Per Olav Sætre.

References

Official site
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