Ørland Ballklubb is a
Norwegian sports club from
Brekstad
Brekstad is a town in Ørland Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along the Trondheimsfjord at the entrance to the Stjørnfjorden. The town is located about south of the village of Uthaug and about west of the villages of ...
,
Sør-Trøndelag
Sør-Trøndelag (; ) was a Counties of Norway, 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. ...
. 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 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
and
team handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a Handball goalkeeper, goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands ...
.
The club was founded on 18 January 1994 as a cooperation team between Opphaug IL, Brekstad BK and IL Yrjar.
The men's football team currently plays in the Fifth Division, the sixth tier of Norwegian football. It had a stint in the
3. divisjon in the early 1990s, until
1994
The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
.
Players who started their career there include
Jo Tessem,
Kjell Rune Sellin and
Sivert Solli.
References
Official site
Football clubs in Norway
Association football clubs established in 1994
Sport in Trøndelag
1994 establishments in Norway
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