Stabæk Fotball is a

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professional

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club based in

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, a suburb of

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. It is part of the multi-sport organization

Stabæk IF Stabæk Idrætsforening is a Norwegian multi-sports club in Bærum, a municipality bordering on Oslo in the west. It has sections for football, bandy, handball and alpine skiing. While the football team Stabæk Fotball is the most prominent, the m ...

. Founded in 1912, the club's name is an archaic spelling of the suburban area

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, from which it once originated. The club currently competes in the

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, the second tier of Football in Norway. Their home stadium is the

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after a three-year-long stay at the

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. Their current chairman is Espen Moe.

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is the current head coach of the club since taking over on 18 August 2022.

History

After years of lean seasons, they won their first title in 1998 as they emerged victorious in the

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, beating

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3–1 in the final. After having been relegated to 1. divisjon after a poor 2004 season, they experienced a successful period under new manager

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, during which they returned to the league in 2005, won the 2008 Tippeligaen, their first, and reached the

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of the Norwegian Cup, culminating in a very successful 2008 season for the club. Stabæk subsequently won the 2009 Norwegian Super Cup but finished a disappointing 12th and 10th place in the 2010 and 2011 league seasons, respectively, thus narrowly avoiding relegation both times. Stabæk holds longstanding rivalries with

Bærum SK Bærum Sportsklubb is a Norwegian association football club founded on 26 March 1910. The men's team is currently playing in the Norwegian Second Division, after being relegated from the 1. divisjon in 2015. The club comes from Sandvika, the a ...

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and

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, both in the league and by geographical location. The team’s home colors, entirely blue, have earned them the nickname “De Blaa” (The Blue Ones). In 2009, Stabæk became the first Norwegian association football club with both their men's and women’s teams in the premier divisions. Lillestrøm followed suit the next year. On 30 November 2015,

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was appointed as manager of the club on a two-year contract. McKinlay resigned as manager on 8 July 2016, after being knocked out of the

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by Welsh club Connah's Quay Nomads. In the 2021

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season, Stabæk finished in 15th place, resulting in relegation to the

for the first time since 2012.

Stadium

Stabæk played home games at the

until 2008. They then moved into the

, which had a capacity of 15,000 people. Their stay at the

became shorter than desired; after a three year-long stay at the indoor arena, they moved back to the Nadderud Stadion due to economic issues with the new arena. The women's team, Stabæk FK, also currently plays home games at Nadderud Stadion. Nadderud Stadion has a capacity of 4,938 spectators. The club's record home attendance was set on 13 September 2009, when 13,402 spectators attended

to watch a game against

. The record attendance at Nadderud Stadion of approximately 10,000 spectators dates from the quarter-final of the 1970 Norwegian Cup, a game Stabæk lost 2–4 against Strømsgodset.

Chairman

On 4 February 2010, Einar Schultz was elected chairman of Stabæk, replacing

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. Schultz has held various positions in the Stabæk system over the last five years. In February 2012, Kjell Johnsen was elected the new chairman of Stabæk Fotball. Johnsen was replaced in 2013 by Espen Moe.

European record

Honours

Tippeligaen Eliteserien () is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion ...

**Champions:

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**Runners-up: 2007 **Third place: 1998,

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**Champions: 1998 **Runners-up:

* Superfinalen **Champions:

Recent history

Records

*Greatest home victory: 8–0 vs.

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, 29 October 2006 *Greatest away victory: 14–0 vs. Vestfossen IF, 12 May 2008 *Heaviest home loss: 0–7 vs.

Lillestrøm SK Lillestrøm Sportsklubb is a Norwegian professional football club from the city of Lillestrøm, just outside of the capital Oslo. Lillestrøm SK is a Norwegian football club based in Lillestrøm, playing in Eliteserien. The club was founded in 1 ...

, 20 March 2011 *Heaviest away loss: 1–8 vs.

SK Brann Sportsklubben Brann (commonly known as Brann, and less often as SK Brann) is a Norwegian professional football club, founded 26 September 1908, from Bergen. Brann had been in the Eliteserien, Norway's Premier Division of Football, since 1987, bar ...

, 24 May 2001 *Highest attendance,

: 13 402 vs.

, 13 September 2009 *Highest average attendance, season: 9,472, 2009 *Most appearances, total: 365, Morten Skjønsberg (2001–2011, 2014–2017) *Most appearances, league: 320, Morten Skjønsberg (2001–2011, 2014–2017) *Most goals scored, total: 111,

Daniel Nannskog Daniel Paul Gustav Nannskog (born 22 May 1974) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker for Högaborg, Malmö FF, Djurgården, Assyriska, Sylvia, Landskrona BoIS, Sichuan Guancheng and Stabæk IF, as well as for ...

(2005–2009) *Most goals scored, league: 101, Daniel Nannskog (2005–2010) *Most goals scored, Eliteserien: 62, Daniel Nannskog (2006–2009) *Most goals scored, season: 32, Daniel Nannskog (2005) *Most goals scored, Eliteserien, season: 19,

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(1998), Daniel Nannskog (2006; 2007)

Current players

Managers

Women's team

Stabæk Fotball also fields a women's team. In 2009, Stabæk became the first Norwegian association football club with both their men's and women’s teams in the premier divisions.

References

External links

Official website

Supporter pages (Stabæk Support)
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