Vålerenga Trolls
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American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
team located in Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
that competes in the Norway American Football Federation
Norway American Football Federation
The Norway American Football Federation is the largest American football league in Norway, consisting of eleven teams from Norwegian cities and universities. The league is divided into two levels of competition and four age categories: Senior, Under 19, Under 16, and Under 13...
(NoAFF). The team was founded in 1983 as the Oslo Trolls and changed to its current name in 1993.
The Trolls hold the record for most NoAFF league titles with 10, including the first four ever played, and five straight between 1993 and 1997. The Trolls also have more NoAFF Final appearances than any other team with 16.
Notable players
- Ronny Allman - DL
- Christian Arnesen - LB
- Truls Bråthen - QB
- Bernt-Helge Hammer - C
- Anders Hjerpseth - WR, DB
- Roger Kjær - QB
- Kent Sneve - DB
- Tron Christian Johansen - DB/LB
- Brage Mørk - OL