FC Lyn Oslo - last updated on 3 April 2008
(Courtesy of Johnny Beaufays)
Club name: Football Club Lyn Oslo
Foundation: March 3rd 1896
City: Oslo
Colours: Red, white and blue
Website: www.lyn.no
Honours:
Tippeligaen - 2 (1964, 1968)
NM SAS Braathens Cup - 8 (1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1945, 1946, 1967, 1968)
Oslo Championship - 8 (1915, 1917, 1922, 1926, 1930, 1935, 1936, 1937)
A bit of history:
Football Club Lyn Oslo is a Norwegian professional football club and a department of the sports club Ski- og Fotballklubben Lyn, whose members also participate in nordic skiing and orienteering. They are based in the city of Oslo and play their home games at Ullevaal Stadion.
Established in 1896, they were founding members of the Norwegian Football Association, and have won the League Championship twice and the Norwegian Cup eight times. The club's most recent period of success was during the 1960s, when they won four trophies and reached the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup.
Lyn currently play in the Norwegian Premier League, having attained advancement in 2000. They are managed by Henning Berg, who led the team to a third place finish in the first season of his tenure, in 2005.
The westside club Lyn has traditionally been perceived as representing the upper and middle classes, whereas the eastside club Vålerenga was seen as belonging to the workers. Although Oslo still maintains an east-west divide in social demographics, the divide is now much weaker in the clubs' supporter bases.
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FC Lyn Oslo
