Sarpsborg Sparta FK
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| Full name | Sarpsborg 08 Fotballforening |
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| Founded | 15 January 2008 |
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Sarpsborg Stadion Sarpsborg Norway |
| Capacity | 4,700 |
| Chairman | Hans Petter Arnesen |
| Coach | Geir Bakke |
| League | Tippeligaen |
| 2016 | Tippeligaen, 6th |
| Website | Club home page |
Sarpsborg 08 Fotballforening is a Norwegian football club based in Sarpsborg, currently playing in Tippeligaen. Sarpsborg 08 played in Adeccoligaen from 2005 to 2010. In 2010, the club was promoted to the Tippeligaen, the top league in Norway, but finished last and was relegated back to Adeccoligaen in 2011. In 2012, they were promoted again. They play their home games at Sarpsborg Stadion.
Football in Sarpsborg has traditionally been dominated by Sarpsborg FK (SFK), which won the Norwegian Cup six times and played 20 seasons in the top division, and to a lesser extent IL Sparta, which won the Norwegian Cup in 1952 and played nine seasons in the top division. However, after SFK's relegation from the 1974, no teams from Sarpsborg played in the top division for the next two decades. In 1999, 16 teams in the Sarpsborg-area joined forces to create a team that could compete in the top divisions of Norwegian football, called Sarpsborg Fotball, which overtook SFK's spot in the league-system. In its first season the team was relegated from the Second Division, and several clubs including both SFK and Sparta, withdrew from the collaboration.
The remaining clubs in the "Sarpsborg Fotball"-project formed a new club called Borg Fotball, which won promotion to the Second Division in 2002, but was relegated again in 2003. Meanwhile, Sparta was promoted to the Second Division the same season, and re-entered the collaboration club which now was renamed FK Sparta Sarpsborg. The club earned promotion to Adeccoligaen (the second tier of Norwegian football) in 2005.
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