Sportsklubben Herd is a sports club from

Ålesund Ålesund () sometimes spelled Aalesund in English, is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal County, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre and the centre of the Ålesund Region. The town of Ålesund is the administrativ ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

. 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 ...

, handball and

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

, and was founded on 22 August 1932. The men's football team plays in the Third Division (fourth tier) having been relegated from

Second Division In sport, the Second Division, also called Division 2 or Division II is usually the second highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below. Following the rise of Premier League style compet ...

in 2011.

History

Herd was promoted from the Fourth to the Third Division following the 2008 season. Ahead of the 2009 season they signed

Lasse Olsen Lasse Olsen (born 18 November 1973) is a Norwegian former footballer who played as a forward for Gjelleråsen, Strømsgodset, Aalesund, and Mjøndalen Mjøndalen is a built up area in Drammen municipality in Viken county (formerly Bu ...

and Karl Oskar Fjørtoft for both playing and non-playing capacities. In 2010 it contested a

playoff The playoffs, play-offs, postseason or finals of a sports league are a competition played after the regular season by the top competitors to determine the league champion or a similar accolade. Depending on the league, the playoffs may be eithe ...

to win promotion, and succeeded by beating

Sunndal is a municipality in the Nordmøre region located in the northeast part of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Sunndalsøra. Other villages include Gjøra, Grøa, Hoelsand, Jorda ...

8–2 on aggregate. In their first season in

, they finished last with 17 points in 24 matches and was relegated.

Recent history

References

External links

* http://kxweb.no/portal/theme/organization/main.do?theme=MUSTANG&siteId=73 Association football clubs established in 1932 Football clubs in Norway Sport in Ålesund 1932 establishments in Norway Defunct athletics clubs in Norway {{Norway-footyclub-stub