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Funnefoss/Vormsund Idrettslag, commonly known as Fu/Vo, is a Norwegian sports club from
Nes, Akershus Nes is a municipality in Akershus in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Årnes. Name The municipality (originally the parish) is named af ...
. 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 ...
and
amateur boxing Amateur boxing is a variant of boxing practiced at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as many associations. Amateur boxing bouts are short in duration, comprising three rounds of three ...
. The club was founded as a merger between ''Funnefoss IF'' and ''Vormsund IL''. Funnefoss IF was founded on 6 December 1924, and Fu/Vo counts this as their founding date. Funnefoss was a member of the Workers' Sport Confederation for a short time. The merger took place on 5 February 1967. It covers the villages Funnefoss,
Oppåkermoen Opakermoen is a village in the municipality of Nes, Akershus, 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 t ...
and
Vormsund Vormsund is a village in the municipality of Nes, Akershus, 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 ...
in Nes, and the home ground is at Oppåkermoen. 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
football in Norway Football is the most popular sport in Norway in terms of active membership (by television viewership football comes third, behind winter sports biathlon and cross-country skiing). The Football Association of Norway was founded in 1902 and the fir ...
. Its current stint started in 2020, after several years on lower levels.


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