Florø Sportsklubb is a Norwegian sports club from the town of

Florø is a town and the administrative centre of the municipality of Kinn, Vestland, Norway. The town was founded by royal decree in 1860 as a ladested on the island of Florelandet, located between the Botnafjorden and Solheimsfjorden. Florø is No ...

in the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Kinn Kinn is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It was established on 1 January 2020. It is in the traditional districts of Nordfjord and Sunnfjord. The municipality is the only non-contiguous municipality in Norway since the municipality of ...

Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...

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 ...

. It has sections for

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

team 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 ...

and

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

. The club was founded in 1912 as Florø FK. Florø FK was later incorporated into Florø-Varg, founded in 1929. In 1945 Florø-Varg merged with Atgeir, a worker's football club founded in 1931, to form Florø SK.

Men's football

Florø Stadion Florø stadion is a multi-use stadium in the town of Florø in the List of municipalities of Norway, municipality of Kinn, Vestland, Norway. It is used for football (soccer), football matches, as the home ground of 2. divisjon team Florø SK, and ...

is their home field. Their team colors are blue and black.

History

The men's football team currently plays in the

3. divisjon The Norwegian Third Division, also called 3. divisjon, is the fourth highest division of the men's football league in Norway. Like the rest of the Norwegian football league system, the season runs from spring to autumn, running approximately from ...

, the fourth tier of the

Norwegian football league system The Norwegian football league system, or pyramid, is a series of League system, interconnected leagues for club Association football, football in Norway. 2017 system in men's football , the current national league system administered by the Norwegi ...

. Florø was relegated to the 4. divisjon (fifth tier) in 2005, and promoted back to 3. divisjon in the following 2006 season. They played in

from 2007 to their promotion from the 2013 3. divisjon. In 2014, 2015 and 2016, the team played in the 2. divisjon. Florø won their group in the 2016 2. divisjon and was promoted to the 2017 1. divisjon where they finished in 8th position. In 2018, they were relegated to the 2. divisjon.

Recent history

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Current squad

Florø SK2

In some seasons, a reserve squad, Florø SK2, has been one of the Norwegian reserve football teams to compete in the lower tiers of the

. While Florø SK2 competed in the 2019 4. divisjon (fifth-level of Norwegian football), as of December 2020, the reserve club's page on the Florø SK

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References

External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Floro Football clubs in Norway Sport in Sogn og Fjordane Association football clubs established in 1912 Kinn 1912 establishments in Norway