Idrettslaget Høyang is a Norwegian sports club from

Høyanger Høyanger () is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center is the village of Høyanger. Other villages in Høyanger municipality include Austreim, Bjordal, Kyrkjeb� ...

. 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 ...

skiing Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow for basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the International S ...

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 ...

floorball Floorball (also known by other names) is a sport played with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. It is played indoors with sticks and a hollow plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three periods. The sport of bandy also playe ...

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

track and field athletics Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

karate (; ; Okinawan language, Okinawan pronunciation: ), also , is a martial arts, martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the Okinawan martial arts, indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tī'' in Okinawan) un ...

and

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...

. It was founded in 1957. The men's football team currently plays in the Fourth Division, the fifth tier of Norwegian football, after being relegated from the Third Division in

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 ...

. Team colors are red and white. Former players include

Vegar Gjermundstad Vegar Heggenes Gjermundstad (born 14 March 1990) is a Norwegian Association football, football Defender (association football), defender who plays for Førde IL. Career He hails from Vadheim. He started his career in Vadheim IL and IL Høyang, b ...

and

Even Hovland Even Hovland (born 14 February 1989) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Swedish side IF Brommapojkarna. Club career In his youth, Hovland played for the local clubs Vadheim IL and IL Høyang, before joining So ...

; female players include

Siri Nordeide Grønli Siri Merete Nordeide Grønli (born 17 April 1984) is a Norwegian football defender, the daughter of a football trainer. She played for IL Høyang before starting school at NTG Bærum (a specialist sports school near Oslo) and joining Asker SK ...

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* Football clubs in Norway Sport in Sogn og Fjordane Association football clubs established in 1957 Athletics clubs in Norway 1957 establishments in Norway {{Norway-footyclub-stub