Bækkelagets Sportsklub is a Norwegian sports club from

Bekkelaget Bekkelaget is a neighborhood in the borough Nordstrand in Oslo, Norway. Originally, Bekkelaget was the maritime area south of Oslo city, in Aker municipality adjacent to the Bunnefjorden. With the opening of the Østfold Line, Bekkelaget station ...

in southern Oslo, founded in 1909. The club has sections for skiing (including ski jumping and biathlon),

orienteering Orienteering is a group of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a s ...

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 g ...

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 ...

floorball Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. Men and women play indoors with sticks and a plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. The sport of bandy also played a role ...

and track and field athletics, previously also

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

. It is known for organizing one of the world's largest youth football tournaments,

Norway Cup The Norway Cup is an international youth football tournament in Oslo, Norway. It has been held annually since 1972, with the exception of 1976 (due to a conflicting arrangement), 2020 and 2021 (due to the COVID-19 Pandemic). It is the world's l ...

Handball

The club consists of 850 active handball players. The women's handball team won the

Women's EHF Cup Winner's Cup The Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup was the official competition for women's handball clubs of Europe that won their national cup, and took place every year from 1976 to 2016 (until 1993 organized by IHF instead of EHF). From the 2016–17 season, th ...

in 1997/1998, and again in 1998/1999. The club also reached the final in EHF Women's Champions Trophy the same two seasons. In 1998 Bækkelaget had the best women's team in Europe. The club still plays in the Norwegian top league, but ambitions are far lower than in their best period. Among the former players on the female team are:

Susann Goksør Bjerkrheim Susann Goksør Bjerkrheim (born 7 July 1970, in Oslo) is a Norwegian former handball player. She played in the clubs Nordstrand IF and Bækkelagets SK. She has played in 296 games for the Norwegian National team, scoring 844 goals ...

, Kjersti Grini, Heidi Tjugum, Hege Kristine Kvitsand,

Camilla Andersen Camilla Røseler Andersen (born 5 July 1973) is a former Danish team handball player, two times Olympic champion and a World champion. She received gold medals with the Danish national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta

, Anja Andersen,

Sahra Hausmann (Wenche) Sahra Hausmann (born 6 February 1973) is a Norwegian team handball player who played for the club Bækkelagets SK and on the Norway women's national handball team. She became World champion at World Women's Handball Championship in 1999, ...

Siv Heim Sæbøe Siv Heim Sæbøe (born 25 March 1973) is a Norwegian team handball player who played for the club Bækkelagets SK and on the Norway women's national handball team The Norway women's national handball team re ...

, Cecilie Leganger, Hong Jeong-ho, Gitte Madsen,

Ausra Fridrikas Ausra Fridrikas (born lt, Aušra Miklušytė; formerly Ziukiene; 30 April 1967 in Lithuania) is a Lithuanian–Austrian handball player and World champion from 1990. She first played for Soviet Union, later for Lithuania and finally for Austria. ...

Ingrid Steen Ingrid Steen (born December 12, 1967 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian team handball player and Olympic medalist. She received silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with the Norwegian national team,

Bækkelaget HE

Bækkelaget Håndball Elite is the elite handball department of Bækkelaget SK. The men's team plays in the top division of Norwegian handball, the Eliteserien, and the women's team plays in the Norwegian 2nd division (third tier). The men's team was known until 2013 as BSK/NIF, a cooperation team between Bækkelaget SK and

Nordstrand IF Nordstrand Idrettsforening is a sports club in Nordstrand, Oslo, Norway. The club has sections for alpine skiing, association football and handball. It formerly had sections for orienteering, track and field and Nordic skiing. The club colors ...

. The construction of a new arena, BSK Arena, will begin in 2022.

Current squad

Squad for the 2021–22 season ;Goalkeeper * 1 Mats Bjørnstad * 16 Nikolai Wiig ;RW: * 5 Markus Fartum * 17 Mads Ødegård * 93 Ulrik Berge Eriksson ;LW: * 7 Anders Huse * 24 Christian Windt Ekeberg ;Line players * 8 Sigurd Aggerholm Jensen * 15 Filiph Manfred Tilge * 26 Aksel Andre Strupstad * 31 Henrik Rifseim-Sjøstrøm ;Back players * 4 Samson Bjørke Kallestad * 9 Emil Midtbø Sundal * 13 Emil Havsgård * 20 Trym Korperud Johnsen * 22 Peter Dahl Christensen * 25 Fredrik Tobias Syversen * 28 Nikolai Stabenfeldt Falao * 35 Vetle Korperud Johnsen * 44 Henrik Jevnaker

Transfers

:''Transfers for the 2022–23 season'' ; Joining ; Leaving * Mats Bjørnstad (GK) ''(to Runar Sandefjord)'' * Henrik Jevnaker (LB) ''(to Fjellhammer)'' * Markus Fartum (RW) * Anders Huse (LW) * Trym Korperud Johnsen * Aksel Andre Strupstad * Emil Midtbø Sundal

Notable former club players

Christian O'Sullivan Christian O'Sullivan (born 22 August 1991) is a Norwegian handball player, and team captain for both SC Magdeburg and the Norwegian national team. He participated at the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship. Career O'Sullivan began his car ...

Johannes Hippe Johannes Hippe (born 24 July 1990) is a former Norwegian handball player. He played left and centre back. After two and a half season on Norway's top level and weeks of rumoring, Johannes officially signed for the French club HBC Nantes on 7 Dec ...

Kevin Gulliksen Kevin Maagerø Gulliksen (born 9 November 1996) is a Norwegian handball player for TTH Holstebro and the Norwegian national team. He participated at the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship. References External links * * Kevin Maagerø Gu ...

Kristian Sæverås Kristian Sæverås (born 22 June 1996) is a Norwegian handball player for SC DHfK Leipzig Handball and the Norwegian national team. International honours * European Championship: **: 2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandem ...

Magnus Abelvik Rød Magnus Abelvik Rød (born 7 July 1997) is a Norwegian handball player for OTP Bank-Pick Szeged and the Norwegian national team. He participated at the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship and at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Rød missed almost th ...

Achievements

* Norwegian League ** Silver: 2016/17 ** Bronze: 2013/14 * Norwegian League Playoffs ** Finalist: 2013/14 *Norwegian Cup: ** ''Winner'': 1971 (outdoors) ** ''Finalist'': 1973 (outdoors), 2013 *Norwegian U20 Cup: ** ''Winner'': 1970, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016 ** ''Finalist'': 1965, 1969, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 2018

European Record

Orienteering

Bækkelaget won the Jukola relay in 1988, 1999 and 2002. Notable orienteers who have competed for the club are Holger Hott, Bjørnar Valstad,

Hanne Staff Hanne Staff (born 3 February 1972) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor who has won three individual World Orienteering Championships medals. She retired from international orienteering at the end of the 2004 season where she became world c ...

, Anne Margrethe Hausken, all world champions, and Anders Nordberg.

Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen (born 7 September 1986) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor and cross-country skier. She was a junior World Champion in both sports. At senior level she has won a gold medal in relay at the World Orienteering Champ ...

competes in both orienteering and skiing.

Football

The men's team currently plays in the Fourth Division (fifth tier). It last played in the Third Division in

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. Notable former players are

Finn Seemann Finn Ludvig Seemann (18 October 1944 – 7 September 1985) was a Norwegian footballer who played as a striker. Seemann was born in Oslo. He started his football career in Lyn, where he became league champion in 1964. In 1965, he became professi ...

(funny, he broke his leg, and got 0.1 matches.) and Øyvind Bolthof (youth level only). The women's team currently plays in the Second Division. Their home field is

Sportsplassen Sportsplassen ("The Sports Field") is a multi-use stadium in Nordstrand, Oslo, Norway. It is currently used mostly for track and field meets and football matches, both under the auspices of Bækkelagets SK Bækkelagets Sportsklub is a Norwegi ...

References

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