Kristiansund BK
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| Full name | Kristiansund Ballklubb |
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| Nickname(s) | KBK |
| Founded | 2 September 2003 |
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Kristiansund Stadion, Kristiansund, Norway |
| Capacity | c. 4 000 |
| Chairman | Vidar Solli |
| Coach | Christian Michelsen |
| League | 1. Divisjon |
| 2016 | 1. Divisjon, 1st (promoted) |
Kristiansund BK is a Norwegian football club located in Kristiansund. It currently plays in the Norwegian First Division. Kristiansund BK was formed in the autumn of 2003, when two rival clubs of Kristiansund, Kristiansund FK and Clausenengen FK, agreed to establish a new elite team.
Since Magnar Isaksen won a bronze medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics, many footballers from Kristiansund have played for the Norwegian national team including Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Øyvind Leonhardsen and Trond Andersen. In addition have players like Ola Lyngvær, Jan Erlend Kruse, Arild Stavrum, Ole Erik Stavrum and Andre Flem has played for different clubs in the Norwegian Premier League, and Clausenengen has been called a "talent factory". Nevertheless, the football clubs from Kristiansund has had limited success, with Kristiansund FK's spell in the First Division in 1991 and Clausenengen in 1999 as the most recent.
In 2003, the local bank Sparebank 1 Nordvest initiated a merge between Kristiansund FK and Clausenengen, with the bank as the main sponsor of the new club paying 750,000 kr per year. Kristiansund BK was founded on 2 September 2003 and replaced Kristiansund FK in the Third Division, with the other two clubs continuing to play in the lower divisions.
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