Charlottenlund Sportsklubb is a
Norwegian
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sports club from
Charlottenlund
Charlottenlund is a suburban area on the coast north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the administrative seat of Gentofte Municipality. Bordered to the east by the Øresund, to the South by Hellerup and to the north by Klampenborg, it is one of the w ...
in
Trondheim
Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...
,
Trøndelag
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, Norway. It has sections for
association football
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and
team handball
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.
It was established on 24 May 1945 as a merger of ''Charlottenlund IL'', ''Charlottenlund AIL'' and ''SK Skjold''. In 1953 it lacked a section for handball, but had sections for
Nordic skiing
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,
speed skating
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and
track and field
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.
The men's football team currently plays in the Fourth Division, the fifth tier of Norwegian football. In 2009 it contested a
playoff to win promotion to the
Second Division
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, but lost to
Kolstad.
The team handball part of the club has a team in First Division, the second tier of Norwegian handball.
References
Official site
Football clubs in Norway
Sport in Trondheim
Association football clubs established in 1945
Norwegian handball clubs
Defunct athletics clubs in Norway
1945 establishments in Norway
Multi-sport clubs in Norway
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