Vestli Idrettslag was a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

sports club from Stovner borough,

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...

. It had 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 ...

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 ...

and

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

. It was founded on 19 October 1972. The club colors were green and white. The men's handball team formerly played in the highest Norwegian league. Players include

Bjarte Myrhol Bjarte Håkon Myrhol (born 29 May 1982) is a former Norwegian handballer, previously playing for THW Kiel and Norway men's national handball team. Bjarte Myrhol was the captain of the Norway national team from 2014 to 2021. At the end of his c ...

and

Kristian Kjelling Kristian Cato Walby Kjelling (; born 8 September 1980) is a retired Norwegian handball player, who last played for the Norwegian club Drammen HK. He is now their coach. Career Before re-joining Drammen HK he played for the Spanish clubs Portl ...

. The men's football team played in 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 ...

, the fourth tier of Norwegian football, for many years. It formerly cooperated to prop up an umbrella team called

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 ...

, but this team went defunct in 2008. Its last outing in the 3. divisjon came in

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. The team last played in the 4. divisjon, ending 11th in their group in

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. The 2020 season was cancelled due to the

COVID-19 pandemic in Norway The COVID-19 pandemic in Norway has resulted in confirmed cases of COVID-19 and deaths. On 26 February 2020, the virus was confirmed to have spread to Norway. The number of cases increased rapidly during the month of March, prompting a num ...

. The men's

futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and indoor football. Futsal is played between two teams of five players each, one of whom is ...

team last contested the 2019–20 1. divisjon, ending 9th out of 10. In 2021 Vestli merged with

Rommen SK Rommen Sportsklubb was a Norwegian sports club from Stovner borough, Oslo. It had sections for association football and team handball. The club was founded on 24 November 1997 as a merger between ''Smedstua IL'' and Stovnerkameratene BK. It co ...

to form the new club Stovner SK. The handball section was not a part of the merger.

References

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