SF Grei is a
Norwegian
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sports club from
Rødtvet
Rødtvet is a residential area in the district of Grorud in Oslo, located just southwest of Grorud proper. The area was urbanized from the mid 1960s, and connected to the city centre with metro line 5 from 1966. Rødtvet has the forest Lillomarka ...
,
Oslo
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. It currently has sections for
association football
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,
floorball
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and
gymnastics
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.
The women's team cooperated with Linderud IL on the team
Linderud-Grei Toppfotball, which played in
Toppserien
The Toppserien is the top level of women's association football in Norway. It was founded in 1984.
History
Women's league football was introduced on a county basis in 1977. These leagues acted as qualification for the regional (South) league in 1 ...
, the highest league, but now exist as
Grei Kvinner Elite. The men's team formerly cooperated to form the team
Groruddalen BK
Groruddalen Ballklubb was a Norwegian association football club from Groruddalen, Oslo.
The club came into existence through the merger of a number of local clubs in 2002, but went defunct again in 2008, after some of those clubs withdrew their ...
.
The men's football team currently plays in the
4. divisjon, the fifth tier of Norwegian football. It had a longer stint in the
2. divisjon
The Norwegian Second Division, also called 2. divisjon and often referred to as PostNord-ligaen for sponsorship reasons, is the third-highest level of the Norwegian football league system.
There are 28 teams divided into two groups, and at the ...
, and did well with a third place in their group in
1997
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, before being relegated after the
2000 season. In 2002 they won their
3. divisjon
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group, but in a
play-off
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they were beaten by
Borg Fotball 7–1 on aggregate. It last played in the 3. divisjon in 2009, when it was relegated.
References
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Football clubs in Oslo
Association football clubs established in 1919
Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund
1919 establishments in Norway
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