Fotballklubben Sørøy Glimt is a Norwegian

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club from Hasvik Municipality in

Finnmark Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...

county. The result of a merger between clubs in a tiny municipality, it was still a mainstay in the Third Division between 1995 and 2010. The club is based in the village of Hasvik.

Organization and history

It was founded on 6 November 1987 as a merger between Breivikbotn IL and the football section of Hasvik IL. It recruits mainly from the villages Hasvik and Breivikbotn. With only 934 inhabitants, Hasvik was the smallest municipality in Norway to have a Third Division football team. The club colors are red and white, and the club motto is "Unity Gives Strength" (). The men's football team has experienced three runs in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football. Its longest run began in

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

. The team finished seventh in 2004, ninth in

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

, sixth in

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

, fourth in

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

, fifth in

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

and third in

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

. Before that they played the 2002 and 2003 seasons in the Fourth Division, and in the Third Division from

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

. Following the

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

season the team was relegated again, and languished for three seasons in the lower leagues before reappearing in

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

. Relegated after one season, in 2015 Sørøy Glimt finished fourth in the Fourth Division. The best known player on the team is Aslak Salkjelsvik, who joined Sørøy Glimt in 2007. In the 1990s he played second-tier football for Harstad IL. In 2004 the club was rocked by a doping case. People in the club suspected that some of the men's team players indulged in unorganized doping. The club sent a tip to Anti-Doping Norway, and controllers arrived on 9 September. Three players were found to have positive doping tests. The three players admitted the substance abuse. Doping case in Northern Norwegian football are very rare; according to an interview in '' Nordlys'' this was probably the first.

References

External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Soroy Glimt Football clubs in Norway Sport in Finnmark Association football clubs established in 1987 1987 establishments in Norway Hasvik