Lier Idrettslag is a Norwegian multi-sports club from

Tranby Tranby is a village in Lier municipality in Viken, Norway. The village consists mainly of three residential areas located in a semi-circle around a small forest area. Tranby is a part of a greater urban area which also encompasses the village o ...

Lier, Norway Lier is a municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lierbyen. The municipality of Lier was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The area Åssiden was transferred ...

. 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 ...

Esports Esports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams. Although orga ...

and

Nordic skiing Nordic skiing encompasses the various types of skiing in which the toe of the ski boot is fixed to the Ski binding, binding in a manner that allows the heel to rise off the ski, unlike alpine skiing, where the boot is attached to the ski from toe ...

The club was founded in 1931 as ''Lierskogen SBK'' and merged with ''Tranby IF'' (founded 1945) in 1955. The men's football team currently plays in the Sixth Division, the seventh tier of Norwegian football.Lier Menn Senior A
(2017) It contested the Third Division, the fourth tier, in

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

. The national-level referee Kristoffer Helgerud represents the club.

References

* Association football clubs established in 1931 Sport in Buskerud Lier, Norway Football clubs in Norway 1931 establishments in Norway Multi-sport clubs in Norway Handball clubs in Norway {{Norway-footyclub-stub