Tillerbyen FK was a Norwegian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

club from

Sør-Trøndelag Sør-Trøndelag () was a county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. To the west is the No ...

. The club was created as a cooperation between

Melhus IL Melhus Idrettslag is a Norwegian sports club from Melhus, Sør-Trøndelag. It has sections for association football, team handball, volleyball, orienteering, Nordic skiing, weightlifting and powerlifting. It was established on 28 February 189 ...

and

Tiller IL Tiller Idrettslag is a Norwegian sports club from Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag. It has sections for association football, team handball, ice hockey, Nordic skiing and biathlon. It was established on 15 January 1916. Football team The men's footb ...

. The club played 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 ...

, after being promoted from the

3. divisjon 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 ...

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, only to return to the 3. Divisjon.

History

After the 2012 season, the football teams of

and

decided to field one cooperative team in the

. The team was known as Melhus/Tiller during the 2013 season, in which they won promotion to the

. The club played its matches at Melhus' ground. Ahead of the 2014 season, the cooperation evolved into an own club which was named Rødde FK, named after a

folk high school Folk high schools (also ''Adult Education Center'', Danish: ''Folkehøjskole;'' Dutch: ''Volkshogeschool;'' Finnish: ''kansanopisto'' and ''työväenopisto'' or ''kansalaisopisto;'' German: ''Volkshochschule'' and (a few) ''Heimvolkshochschule;'' ...

located between Melhus and

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. The team fielded as Rødde FK during the 2014 season and 2015 season. Ahead of the 2016 season, the cooperation evolved into an own club which was named Tillerbyen FK, named after a location of the club. In 2018 it was decided to merge Tillerbyen FK into Tiller IL from 1 January 2019, and Tiller IL took Tillerbyen FK's place in 3. Divisjon i 2019.Adresseavisen: Simon er både RBK-ansatt og Tiller-trener. Onsdag barker lagene sammen i cupen.
(22 May 2019, retrieved 25 August 2019)

Recent history

References

Defunct football clubs in Norway Sport in Trøndelag Sport in Trondheim Association football clubs established in 2013 2013 establishments in Norway {{Norway-footyclub-stub