Strømsgodset IF is a Norwegian multi-

sports club A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

from Gulskogen in

Drammen Drammen () is a city and municipality in Viken, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and villages such as Konner ...

. 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 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...

, handball and

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 ...

, but is best known for the top-level football section known as

Strømsgodset Toppfotball Strømsgodset Toppfotball is a Norwegian professional association football, football club based in Gulskogen, Drammen, that competes in the Eliteserien (football), Eliteserien. It is the elite football section of the multi-sports club Strømsgods ...

, which plays in

Eliteserien Eliteserien () is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotio ...

, the Norwegian top flight. The club was founded 10 February 1907, but the football team first found success in the late 1960s and early 1970s, winning a league title and three cups. The famous team from the 1960s and 1970s was popularly known as the "Rødgata Boys", after the street most of them lived on. Most of these players were also accomplished bandy players, and Strømsgodset won four national Norwegian Championships in "the winter version of football". Four of the football players collected silver medals in the

1965 Bandy World Championship The 1965 Bandy World Championship was the fourth Bandy World Championship and was contested between four men's bandy playing nations. The championship was played in five cities of Soviet Union (Arkhangelsk, Ivanovo, Kursk, Moscow and Sverdlovsk) o ...

; Steinar Pettersen, Inge Thun, Thorodd Presberg and Ole Johnny Friise.

Bandy

Strømsgodset has an amateur bandy team for men. The team was promoted in 2014/15, and will play in Norwegian 2nd division in the 2015/16 season. The team was reestablished in 2013, after a 20-year break. They were six times Norwegian Champions before discontinuing.

Football

Strømsgodset IF has a professional football section,

, which has teams in the Norwegian top flight,

, as well as reserve teams in the 2nd and 3rd divisions as of 2015. The club also has a youth division with teams from ages 7 and up to 19, and an amateur men's team in the 5th division. The club also has a women's section.

Handball

The section for handball has a senior woman's team in the 3rd division, as well as youth teams for players 11 and up.

Achievements

Football

Norwegian top flight Eliteserien () is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion ...

: ::Winners (2): 1970, 2013 ::Runners-up (1): 2012, 2015 *

Norwegian Cup The Norwegian Football Cup ( no, Norgesmesterskapet i fotball for herrer) is the main knockout cup competition in Norwegian football. It is run by the Football Association of Norway and has been contested since 1902, making it the oldest footbal ...

: (The Norwegian Championship) ::Winners (5): 1969, 1970, 1973, 1991, 2010 ::Runners-up (2): 1993, 1997 *

1. divisjon The Norwegian First Division, also called 1. divisjon and OBOS-ligaen (named sponsor is property developer OBOS), is the second-highest level of the Norwegian football league system. Each year, the top finishing teams in the 1. divisjon are p ...

: ::Winners (1): 2006

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Bandy

Football

Handball

Achievements

Football

See also

Notes

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