Idrettslaget Flint is a Norwegian sports club from Søndre Slagen, Tønsberg,

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. 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 ...

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

and

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 ...

. Flint is the largest sports club in Vestfold, and the club introduced a new clubhouse in May 2015. The clubhouse is located on Løveid by Tolvsrød, with associated sports facilities and courts. In addition, a number of local grass and gravel courts, school gyms, and Slagenhallen (next to Presterød school) are used. The club was founded on 28 April 1917.

Football

The club currently plays in

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, the fourth tier of the

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. On 10 October 2001, the football section cooperated with 19 other teams in the region to form an elite umbrella team,

FK Tønsberg FK Tønsberg was a football club from Tønsberg, Norway, founded on 10 October 2001 as a cooperation project between 20 local clubs. The new team replaced Eik-Tønsberg in the Norwegian Second Division beginning in the 2002 season. The first ...

. Nonetheless, the men's football team was unaffected by the FK Tønsberg founding. On 5 November 2019, Flint announced

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as their new head coach. On 21 November 2021, Flint announced

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as their new head coach, replacing John Arne Riise Constable .

Handball

The women's handball team,

Flint Tønsberg Flint Tønsberg is the women's handball team of the Norwegian multi-sports club IL Flint based in Tønsberg, Vestfold. The team plays in REMA 1000-ligaen, the top division in the country, since its promotion in 2020. Team Current squad :''Squad ...

have been playing in Postenligaen since 2010, having won the First Division, the second tier, in the 2009–10 season, and again from 2020 after being relegated.

References

External links

Flint Esso Arena - Nordic Stadiums

Official football site

Handball site
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