Hønefoss BK
Norwegian association football club
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|---|---|
| clubname | Hønefoss |
| image | Honefoss BK logo.svg |
| upright | 0.8 |
| fullname | Hønefoss Ballklubb |
| nickname | HBK |
| founded | |
| ground | Aka Arena |
| Hønefoss | |
| capacity | 4,256 (3,500 seated) |
| chairman | Bjørn Aasen |
| mgrtitle | Manager |
| manager | Gunnar Halle |
| league | 2. divisjon |
| season | 2024 |
| position | 3. divisjon group 6, 1st of 14 (promoted) |
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Hønefoss Ballklubb is a Norwegian football club from Hønefoss, founded in 1895. The club was a part of the multi-sports club L/F Hønefoss, which folded in 2008.
After 11 years in 1. divisjon, the second tier of Norwegian football, Hønefoss was promoted to Tippeligaen in 2009, where they finished 14th in 2010 Tippeligaen and was relegated after a relegation-playoff against Fredrikstad. In 2011, Hønefoss won the 1. divisjon and was promoted to the Tippeligaen for the second time in three years. Their second spell in Tippeligaen lasted for two seasons, and they were again relegated to the 1. divisjon in 2013.
History
IF Liv multi-sports club was founded on 4 February 1895, and it merged with Fossekallen sports club in 1986 to create Liv/Fossekallen, which in 1997 changed name to L/F Hønefoss multi-sports club. The same year, the football branch of the sports club became economic and organisationally independent under its new name L/F Hønefoss Fotball. In 2002, the football club changed name to its current name Hønefoss Ballklub, and in 2009 the football club was completely separated from the defunct L/F Hønefoss sports club.
Hønefoss competed in the Tippeligaen in 2010, the top tier of Norwegian football after promotion at the end of the 2009 season. Hønefoss got a tough start in their first season in Tippeligaen and lost their first six matches, something that ended in head coach Ole Bjørn Sundgot being fired. Tom Guldbrandsen immediately took over the job as head coach, Hønefoss won their next match 1–0 away against Stabæk. The 2010 season ended in 14th place, which resulted in relegation playoff matches to stay in Tippeligaen. In the first match, Hønefoss won the semi-final against Ranheim, but lost the final later on against Fredrikstad, and therefore got relegated to the 1. divisjon.
In the 2011 season they won the 1. divisjon, one point ahead of Sandnes Ulf, and was again promoted to the Tippeligaen. Remond Mendy was the team's top scorer with 14 goals. The team's second season in the Tippeligaen started much better than in 2010, and after five games, they had two wins and three draws, and was fifth in the table. Hønefoss eventually finished the 2012 season in 13th place. In the 2013 season, the club collected 29 points and finished the season in 16th place and was relegated to the 1. divisjon along with Tromsø.
Recent seasons
:{|class="wikitable"
! Season
!
! Pos.
! Pl.
! W
! D
! L
! GS
! GA
! P
!Notes
|-
|2001
|1. divisjon
|align=right |9
|align=right|30||align=right|10||align=right|10||align=right|10
|align=right|45||align=right|54||align=right|40
|Third round
|
|-
|2002
|1. divisjon
|align=right |4
|align=right|30||align=right|18||align=right|4||align=right|8
|align=right|64||align=right|36||align=right|58
|Second round
|
|-
|2003
|1. divisjon
|align=right |5
|align=right|30||align=right|16||align=right|7||align=right|7
|align=right|55||align=right|41||align=right|55
|Third round
|
|-
|2004
|1. divisjon
|align=right |12
|align=right|30||align=right|11||align=right|4||align=right|15
|align=right|52||align=right|54||align=right|37
|Third round
|
|-
|2005
|1. divisjon
|align=right |4
|align=right|30||align=right|17||align=right|5||align=right|8
|align=right|52||align=right|41||align=right|56
|bgcolor="#CC9966"|Semi-final
|
|-
|2006
|1. divisjon
|align=right |4
|align=right|30||align=right|15||align=right|6||align=right|9
|align=right|64||align=right|47||align=right|51
|Third round
|
|-
|2007
|1. divisjon
|align=right |10
|align=right|30||align=right|8||align=right|11||align=right|11
|align=right|34||align=right|52||align=right|35
|Third round
|
|-
|2008
|1. divisjon
|align=right |5
|align=right|30||align=right|15||align=right|6||align=right|9
|align=right|47||align=right|33||align=right|51
|Second round
|
|-
|2009
|1. divisjon
|align=right bgcolor=#DDFFDD| 2
|align=right|30||align=right|16||align=right|8||align=right|6
|align=right|61||align=right|32||align=right|56
|Third round
| Promoted to Tippeligaen |
|---|
| 2010 |
| Tippeligaen |
| align=right bgcolor="#FFCCCC" |
| align=right |
| align=right |
| Fourth round |
| Relegated to 1. divisjon |
| - |
| 2011 |
| 1. divisjon |
| align=right bgcolor=#DDFFDD |
| align=right |
| align=right |
| Promoted to Tippeligaen |
| - |
| 2012 |
| Tippeligaen |
| align=right |
| align=right |
| align=right |
| |- |2013 |Tippeligaen |align=right bgcolor="#FFCCCC"| 16 |align=right|30||align=right|6||align=right|11||align=right|13 |align=right|34||align=right|47||align=right|29 ||Third round
| Relegated to 1. divisjon |
|---|
| 2014 |
| 1. divisjon |
| align=right |
| align=right |
| align=right |
| |- |2015 |1. divisjon |align=right bgcolor="#FFCCCC"| 16 |align=right|30||align=right|7||align=right|7||align=right|16 |align=right|35||align=right|52||align=right|28 ||Fourth round
| Relegated to 2. divisjon |
|---|
| 2016 |
| 2. divisjon |
| align=right |
| align=right |
| align=right |
| |- |2017 |2. divisjon |align=right |10 |align=right|26||align=right|9||align=right|5||align=right|12 |align=right|35||align=right|41||align=right|32 ||First round | |- |2018 |2. divisjon |align=right bgcolor="#FFCCCC"| 13 |align=right|26||align=right|5||align=right|5||align=right|16 |align=right|38||align=right|67||align=right|20 ||Second round
| Relegated to 3. divisjon |
|---|
| 2019 |
| 3. divisjon |
| align=right |
| align=right |
| align=right |
| |- |2020 |colspan="11"|Season cancelled |- |2021 |3. divisjon |align=right |4 |align=right|13||align=right|7||align=right|4||align=right|2 |align=right|28||align=right|18||align=right|25 ||First round | |- |2022 |3. divisjon |align=right |7 |align=right|26||align=right|11||align=right|4||align=right|11 |align=right|56||align=right|46||align=right|37 ||First round | |- |2023 |3. divisjon |align=right |2 |align=right|26||align=right|24||align=right|1||align=right|1 |align=right|80||align=right|19||align=right|73 ||First round | |- |2024 |3. divisjon |align=right bgcolor=#DDFFDD| 1 |align=right|26||align=right|24||align=right|2||align=right|0 |align=right|117||align=right|17||align=right|74 ||Second round |Promoted to 2. divisjon |}
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Current squad
Managers
::data[format=table] | |Name | |Year(s) | |---|---| | NOR Ole Asbjørn Underdal | 1987 | | NOR Per Ulseth | 1987–88 | | NOR Terje Liknes | 1989–91 | | NOR Kjell Ramberg | 1992 | | NOR Terje Liknes | 1993 | | NOR Paul Berg | 1994–96 | | NOR Roy Arild Fossum | 1997–00 | | NOR Per Brogeland | 2001 | | NOR Lars Tjærnås | 2002–03 | | SWE Peter Engelbrektsson | 2004–06 | | NOR Kjell Sverre Hansen Wold | 2007 | | NOR Ole Bjørn Sundgot | 2008–10 | | NOR Reidar Vågnes | 2010 | | NOR Leif Gunnar Smerud | 2011–13 | | NOR Roar Johansen | 2013–14 | | NOR Rune Skarsfjord | 2014–15 | | DEN René Skovdahl | 2016 | | NOR Frode Lafton | 2016–18 | | NOR Tor Thodesen | 2018 | | ENG Luke Torjussen | 2019–22 | | ISL Marko Valdimar Jankovic | 2022 | | FIN Mika Pulkkinen | 2022 | | NOR Gunnar Halle | 2023–present | ::
Women's team
Main article: Hønefoss BK (women)
Hønefoss also has a women's team, which currently competes in the Toppserien, the top division of women's football in Norway.
References
References
- (5 December 2022). "Gunnar Halle tar over Hønefoss". NRK.
- "Hønefoss BK – Fakta". honefossbk.no.
- Rise, Hans-Olav. (10 October 2013). ""Topplaget" rett ned etter katastrofe-haust". NRK.
- "Hønefoss BK". [[Norwegian News Agency.
- "A-lagsspillere".
- (1 September 2018). "Thodesen overtar Hønefoss". NRK.
- (21 November 2018). "Ny trener for HBK". NRK.
- (7 May 2022). "Enighet om trenerbytte i Hønefoss". NRK.
- (26 May 2022). "Blir ny HBK-trener". NRK.
- (5 December 2022). "Gunnar Halle tar over Hønefoss". NRK.
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