Malvik Idrettslag is a Norwegian multi-sports club from
Malvik
Malvik is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Trondheim Region. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Hommelvik. Other villages in Malvik include Muruvika, Smiskaret, Sneisen, Vikhammer, an ...
,
Sør-Trøndelag. It has sections for association football, team handball, athletics, orienteering, Nordic skiing, swimming, cycling and canoeing.
A club named Malvik IL was formed on 22 January 1933; the official founding date became 1 February. The club was a member of the
Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund. After the
occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany
The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until th ...
, during which the club was dormant, the club merged with ''IL Vidar'', founded 7 November 1939. The club also got an influx of members from the club ''Malvik TIF'', which had gone completely defunct during the occupation. The name Vidar was chosen as the club's name. However the Confederation of Sports (which had absorbed ''Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund'') refused the name Vidar, and Malvik IL was chosen instead.
History
The men's football team plays in the Fourth Division (fifth tier). The club played in the Norwegian Third Division
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 ...
as late as in 2010.
References
Official homepage
Football clubs in Norway
Association football clubs established in 1933
Sport in Trøndelag
Athletics clubs in Norway
Orienteering clubs in Norway
Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund
1933 establishments in Norway
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