SFK Lyn
| Full name | Ski- og Fotballklubben Lyn |
|---|---|
| Founded | 3 March 1896 |
| Ground | Kringsjå kunstgress, Kringsjå, Oslo (football) |
Ski- og Fotballklubben Lyn (lit. "Ski and Football Club Lightning") is a Norwegian alliance sports club from Nordre Aker, Oslo. It has two sections; for association football and Nordic skiing. Until 2010 they had a third section, for top-level association football, named FK Lyn. In the skiing is also embedded orienteering, triathlon and track and field.
The club was founded as IF Lyn on 3 March 1896. It originated in St. Hanshaugen, and was a club for boys aged 12 to 14. The first sports were association football (the club was a founding member of the Football Association of Norway in 1902), cross-country skiing and ski jumping. Other sports like ice hockey, bandy, orienteering and tennis were tried but later discontinued. The club colors are red, white and blue.
FK Lyn was the name of the top-level football section. It consisted of a men's senior team, a B team and a men's junior team. It fielded for many decades as SFK Lyn until top and grassroots football was divided into two. The elite section held the name FC Lyn Oslo for some years. It took over the history, records and achievements of SFK Lyn's football section.
This section went bankrupt in 2010, and the senior, B and junior teams were pulled from competition and their games annulled. The club, represented with the senior team, also took part in the 2010 Norwegian Football Cup, but was eliminated before the bankruptcy.
Lyn Fotball is the "grassroots football" (Norwegian: breddefotball) section of SFK Lyn, comprising the non-professional players within the club. A senior men's team (bearing no relation to FC Lyn Oslo/FK Lyn) was founded because of demand in the district, and currently plays in the Fourth Division, the fifth tier of Norwegian football. The women's team currently plays in the Fourth Division, the fifth tier. The junior men's team plays in the highest league in Oslo, and actually competed against FK Lyn in this league before the latter went defunct.
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