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Kolbotn hitting new heights
With the second qualifying round of the UEFA Women's Cup starting next week, uefa.com is taking a detailed look at each of the 16 clubs looking to progress to the quarter-finals and beyond. Today, Norwegian champions Kolbotn IL.
Founded in 1915, Kolbotn is a multi-sports club who later counted polar explorer Roald Amundsen among their honourary members and is especially noted for its wrestlers, including Olympic gold-medallist Jon Rønningen. Football was played there from 1916, with a semi-autonomous section starting in 1960, but although girls soccer was played for many years a senior female team did not begin until 1985.
Rising up the ranks
Starting in the Norwegian fifth level, the new side took only seven years to rise to division two. Acquiring ambition, and attracting some talented youngsters, promotion to the top flight was achieved in 1994. In their first season they ended sixth, then fifth, followed by three fourth-place finishes, as well as reaching the 1998 Norwegian Women's Cup final, losing to SK Trondheims/Ørn. In 2000 Kolbotn stepped up to third, second in 2001 and the progress was complete when the 2002 title was clinched.
mehr: http://www.uefa.com/competitions/womencu...sid=577222.html
With the second qualifying round of the UEFA Women's Cup starting next week, uefa.com is taking a detailed look at each of the 16 clubs looking to progress to the quarter-finals and beyond. Today, Norwegian champions Kolbotn IL.
Founded in 1915, Kolbotn is a multi-sports club who later counted polar explorer Roald Amundsen among their honourary members and is especially noted for its wrestlers, including Olympic gold-medallist Jon Rønningen. Football was played there from 1916, with a semi-autonomous section starting in 1960, but although girls soccer was played for many years a senior female team did not begin until 1985.
Rising up the ranks
Starting in the Norwegian fifth level, the new side took only seven years to rise to division two. Acquiring ambition, and attracting some talented youngsters, promotion to the top flight was achieved in 1994. In their first season they ended sixth, then fifth, followed by three fourth-place finishes, as well as reaching the 1998 Norwegian Women's Cup final, losing to SK Trondheims/Ørn. In 2000 Kolbotn stepped up to third, second in 2001 and the progress was complete when the 2002 title was clinched.
mehr: http://www.uefa.com/competitions/womencu...sid=577222.html