Sandnessjøen Idrettslag is a
Norwegian
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sports club from
Sandnessjøen
Sandnessjøen is a town and the administrative centre of Alstahaug Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Sandnessjøen was granted special trading privileges in the late 1600s and it received town status in 1999. Sandnessjøen is located ...
,
Alstahaug,
Nordland. 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 ...
and
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 ...
.
The men's football team currently plays in the
Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football. It last played in the
Norwegian Second Division in
1997
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. Their men's handball team currently plays in the third division and goes by the nickname "Swingers".
Current squad
''Updated 9 April 2013''
''For season transfers, see
transfers winter 2011–12 and
transfers summer 2012.''
References
External links
Official site
Stamnes Arena - Nordic Stadiums
Football clubs in Norway
Sport in Nordland
Association football clubs established in 1914
1914 establishments in Norway
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