Fyllingen Fotball

Fyllingen
Full name Fyllingen Fotball
Founded 6 June 1946
Ground Varden Amfi
Fyllingsdalen
Bergen
(Capacity: 3,500)
League Third Division
2010 Third Division/ Hordaland 2, 2nd
Home colours
Away colours

Fyllingen Fotball is a Norwegian association football club from Fyllingsdalen, Bergen, Hordaland.

It was founded as a formally independent section of the alliance sports club Fyllingen IL on 1 January 1994. Fyllingen IL was founded on 6 June 1946.[1] Fyllingen Fotball still uses Fyllingen IL's logo.

The men's team currently plays in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football. It last played in the Norwegian Premier League in 1993, and was relegated to the Third Division after the 2009 Norwegian Second Division. The team also featured in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1991-92 after finishing as runners-up in the Norwegian Football Cup the previous year.

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Merger with Løv-Ham

Løv-Ham has in the recent years taken over Fyllingen's spot as Fyllingsdalen's best football-club, but it's still Fyllingen that got the biggest support and the financial power in the borough. In the end of 2007, the two clubs started negotiation to merge the football-departments of the two clubs. If this had been a reality the goal was a budget of at least 15 million, a doubling compared to the Løv-Ham's budget in 2007. The aim was to create an organization and a name that create a stable state football team, and which in time also be able to play up in the Premier League. The experiment stranded when it was not achieved sufficient majority at the extraordinary annual meeting of Fyllingen[2]. Four years later, on 28 September 2011, the members of both clubs' voted yes to a merge. The new club, will replace Løv-Ham in the 2012 Norwegian Second Division, and the two old clubs will cease to excist.[3] Kjetil Knutsen will be the head coach of the new team.[4]

European Cup appearances

Season Competition Round Country Club Home Away Aggregate
1991-92 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1. round Atlético Madrid 0–1 2–7 2–8

Recent history, men's team

Season Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Cup Notes
2001 2. Division, section 2 4 26 14 6 6 63 48 48 2nd round
2002 2. Division, section 3 3 26 14 4 8 65 63 46 1st round
2003 2. Division, section 3 5 26 11 5 10 61 56 38 2nd round
2004 2. Division, section 3 5 26 12 2 12 56 59 38 1st round
2005 2. Division, section 3 5 26 11 7 8 45 33 40 2nd round
2006 2. Division, section 3 4 26 13 6 7 46 38 45 2nd round
2007 2. Division, section 3 5 26 11 7 8 38 42 40 1st round
2008 2. Division, section 3 5 26 11 6 9 45 51 39 1st round
2009 2. Division, section 3 12 26 8 3 15 37 64 27 2nd round Relegated to Division 3
2010 3. Division, section Hordaland 2 2 22 15 2 5 63 24 47 3rd round
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References

  1. ^ "Historie" (in Norwegian). Fyllingen Fotball. http://www.fyllingenfotball.no/index.php?&section=article&id=484. Retrieved 8 August 2010. 
  2. ^ "Fyllingen sa nei til fusjon". bt.no. Bergens Tidende. 13 November 2007. http://fotball.bt.no/forstediv/article94548.ece. Retrieved 19 October 2011. 
  3. ^ "Løv-Ham og Fyllingen blir én klubb". bt.no. Bergens Tidende. 28 September 2011. http://fotball.bt.no/forstediv/article211005.ece. Retrieved 19 October 2011. 
  4. ^ "Blir sjef for Fyllingsdalens nye lag". bt.no. Bergens Tidende. 19 October 2011. http://fotball.bt.no/forstediv/article212713.ece. Retrieved 19 October 2011. 
  5. ^ "Norsk & Internasjonal Fotballstatistikk" (in Norwegian). http://www.nifs.no. 
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