Tønsberg Fotballklubb is a
Norwegian 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 ...
club from
Tønsberg
Tønsberg (), historically Tunsberg, is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city in Tønsberg Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located about south-southwest of the capital city of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near ...
,
Vestfold
Vestfold () is a county and a current electoral district in Norway. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it borders Buskerud and Telemark counties. The county administration is located in Tønsberg, Norway's oldest city, and the larg ...
.
It was founded in 1985 as a merger between the football sections of
Tønsbergs TF
Tønsbergs Turnforening, often called Tønsberg Turn is a Norwegian sports club from Tønsberg, Vestfold. It has sections for team handball, speed skating, figure skating, gymnastics and pétanque.
General history
The club was founded on 9 June ...
and
IF Tønsberg-Kameratene. The team has played on the fourth or fifth tier of Norwegian football for the duration of its existence. The men's football team currently plays in the Fifth Division, the sixth tier of Norwegian football. In
2011
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they withdrew their team, and was relegated from the
Third Division.
On 10 October 2001, it cooperated with 19 other teams in the region to form an elite umbrella team,
FK Tønsberg
FK Tønsberg was a football club from the city of Tønsberg in Tønsberg Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway, founded on 10 October 2001 as a cooperation project between 20 local clubs. The new team replaced Eik-Tønsberg in the Norwegian ...
.
References
Official site
Football clubs in Norway
Sport in Tønsberg
Association football clubs established in 1985
1985 establishments in Norway
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