Langevåg Idrettslag is a sports club located in

Langevåg Langevåg or Langevågen is the administrative center of Sula Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is situated at the end of the road on the north side of the island of Sula, about northwest of the village of Mauseidv� ...

, Sula,

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. It has sections for

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and electric floorball.

Football

Langevåg played their first game on Langevåg Stadion in 1921. In 1961, the team played play-offs for promotion to Hovedserien, the

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, but lost 3–4 on aggregate against

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. 7,700 spectators attended the home game, which is the attendance record at Langevåg Stadion. The men's football team currently plays in

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, the fifth tier of the

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, since their promotion from the sixth tier in 2019. They last played in the

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(third tier) in

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and

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, Cecilie Fiskerstrand has played for the club.

Recent seasons

References

External links

Official site
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