Drammen Bandy is a

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 ...

club from

Drammen Drammen () is a city and municipality in Viken (county), Viken, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and village ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

, formed on 16 June 1997 as a cooperation between several teams in the city.

History

The clubs which handed over their bandy activities to Drammen Bandy when it was founded, were *

SK Drafn Ski- og Ballklubben Drafn is a Norwegian multi-sports club from Drammen, founded in 1910. The club, which takes its name from the Norse name of Drammen, was founded as a merger of the clubs Ulf (founded 1905) and Njord (founded 1906). In 1916 it ...

, * Drammens Ballklubb, *

SBK Skiold Ski- og Ballklubben Skiold ("Shield") is a Norwegian sports club based in Strømsø, Drammen. The club is at present mostly active in association football, but has earlier had success in bandy and has also had a department for ice hockey. The c ...

, *

Strømsgodset IF Strømsgodset IF is a Norwegian multi-sports club from Gulskogen in Drammen. It has sections for association football, handball and bandy, but is best known for the top-level football section known as Strømsgodset Toppfotball, which plays in Eli ...

, * Sparta/Bragerøen, *

Konnerud IL Konnerud Idrettslag (Konnerud Sports Club) is a Norwegian sports club from Drammen, Buskerud. It has sections for association football, team handball, volleyball, bandy, Nordic skiing, cycling, and orienteering. It was founded in 1927 as a skiin ...

Current activities

Drammen Bandy play in the

Norwegian Bandy Premier League The Norwegian Bandy Premier League no, Eliteserien is the top level of bandy in Norway. National bandy champions have been named yearly since 1912, but the league was only founded in 1932. The league consists of eight teams. After the regular lea ...

. Their current head coach is Ove Ronny Nørgaard. In a joint venture with Nordre Sande IL, Drammen Bandy has won the Norwegian Championship for women in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.

External links

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Bandy clubs in Norway Sport in Drammen Bandy clubs established in 1997 1997 establishments in Norway {{Bandy-team-stub