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| Full name | Odds Ballklubb | ||
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| Nickname | Oddrane | ||
| Founded | 31 March 1894; 131 years ago (31 March 1894) | ||
| Ground | Skagerak Arena Skien | ||
| Capacity | 12 000 | ||
| Chairman | Bernt Ove Søvik | ||
| Manager | Per Frandsen | ||
| League | 1. divisjon | ||
| 2026 | 1. Divisjon, 9th of 16 | ||
| Website | www | ||
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Odds Ballklubb, commonly known asOdd, is a Norwegian professionalfootball club fromSkien. Originally the football section of a multi-sports club, it was founded in 1894, nine years after the club's founding. Most sports other than football and gymnastics were discontinued and the club became dedicated primarily to football. Odd plays in theNorwegian First Division, the second tier of theNorwegian football league system, and holds the record of winning theNorwegian Football Cup the most times with twelve wins, the last coming in 2000. The club was known asOdd Grenland between 1994 and 2012. Founded in 1894, Odd is the oldest football club inNorway.[1] As of 13 May 2017 the club was granted a membership inClub of Pioneers. It then became the first Nordic football club to be granted this membership.
IF Odd was founded in 1885,[2] and is thus one of the older sports clubs in Norway still in existence. The name derives fromViktor Rydberg's novelSeierssverdet, where one of the main characters was a Norwegian athlete called Orvar Odd.[citation needed]
In the beginning, IF Odd was mainly focused on gymnastics, and also had a department forNordic skiing andtrack and field.[2] A department for football, named Odds BK, was founded on 31 March 1894.[3] This was the club's second effort to do so, some time after English workers at nearbySkotfoss brought the game of football to Skien, and the city[dubious –discuss] decided to buy a football. Odd is counted as Norway's oldest football team still in existence.
Odd started a cooperation with the local clubPors in 1994, and changed their names to Odd Grenland and Pors Grenland, in an effort to represent the district ofGrenland. In conjunction with the name change, apublic limited company named Grenland Fotball was founded.[3] Pors Grenland withdrew from the cooperation in December 2009,[4] and in January 2013 Odd Grenland decided to change its name back to Odds BK because they wanted to be a club for the entire county ofTelemark.[5]
Odd won theNorwegian Football Cup in 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1913, 1915, 1919, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1931 and 2000,[3] more than any other team in Norway. In the late 20th century, the men's team struggled in the lower divisions for many years, but made it back to theTippeligaen in 1999 and stayed there until they were relegated in 2007. The team had survived relegation twice; first in 2005 after a dreadful start of the campaign, then in 2006 when the team only survived relegation by beatingBryne in the relegation play-offs. In 2007 the team was relegated to the1. divisjon after being beaten byBodø/Glimt in the relegation play-offs. In 2008, with three games still to play, Odd secured the promotion back to the Tippeligaen after winning 4–0 at home againstHødd.
On 25 September 2011, Odd playerJone Samuelsen scored what is claimed to be the longest headed goal ever scored in a match, in a match againstTromsø, when he headed the ball from within his own half of the pitch into Tromsø's open goal, the goalkeeper having come forward for a late corner in the match. Norwegian police were invited to measure the distance, and calculated the length as to be 58.13 metres.[6]
Club's home ground isSkagerak Arena (capacity 12,000), has seen the largest crowd (approx 12,500 people) at the 1984 Cup semi-final against Viking, though the official number is 8854. Officially, the highest attendance is 12.436, achieved in the 2015 Europa League play-off against Borussia Dortmund. The stadium was rebuilt to hold a capacity of between 13,000 and 14,000, and was finished in 2008. It is named Skagerak Arena after local sponsorSkagerak Energi.
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| Position | Name |
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| Head coach | Per Frandsen |
| Assistant coach | Martin Reier |
| Goalkeeper coach | Terje Abrahamsen |
| Sport director | Morten Rønningen |
| Personal developer | Amir Roland Iranmanesh |
| Physical and mental coach | Mikkel Fillingsnes Marker |
| Physical therapist | Anders Braastad |
| Player logistic | Thomas Skilbred |
| Player developer | Flamur Kastrati |
| Equipment manager | Nils Thomas Strømdal |
| Team coordinator | Tore Andersen |
| Doctor | Ola Stamnes |
| Season | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Cup | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Tippeligaen | 8 | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 40 | 31 | 38 | Winner | |
| 2001 | Tippeligaen | 6 | 26 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 50 | 40 | 42 | Semi-final | |
| 2002 | Tippeligaen | 6 | 26 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 36 | 30 | 41 | Final | |
| 2003 | Tippeligaen | 4 | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 46 | 43 | 38 | Third round | |
| 2004 | Tippeligaen | 8 | 26 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 47 | 44 | 35 | Third round | |
| 2005 | Tippeligaen | 9 | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 28 | 51 | 33 | Quarter-final | |
| 2006 | Tippeligaen | 12 | 26 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 30 | 38 | 29 | Third round | |
| 2007 | Tippeligaen | ↓12 | 26 | 8 | 3 | 15 | 33 | 43 | 27 | Semi-final | Relegated to the1. divisjon |
| 2008 | 1. divisjon | ↑1 | 30 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 76 | 44 | 65 | Semi-final | Promoted to theTippeligaen |
| 2009 | Tippeligaen | 4 | 30 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 53 | 44 | 46 | Semi-final | |
| 2010 | Tippeligaen | 5 | 30 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 48 | 41 | 46 | Semi-final | |
| 2011 | Tippeligaen | 5 | 30 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 44 | 44 | 48 | Fourth round | |
| 2012 | Tippeligaen | 10 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 40 | 43 | 39 | Fourth round | |
| 2013 | Tippeligaen | 7 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 43 | 39 | 40 | Fourth round | |
| 2014 | Tippeligaen | 3 | 30 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 52 | 32 | 58 | Final | |
| 2015 | Tippeligaen | 4 | 30 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 61 | 41 | 55 | Quarter-final | |
| 2016 | Tippeligaen | 3 | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 44 | 35 | 51 | Fourth round | |
| 2017 | Eliteserien | 6 | 30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 27 | 39 | 42 | Fourth round | |
| 2018 | Eliteserien | 9 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 39 | 38 | 40 | Fourth round | |
| 2019 | Eliteserien | 4 | 30 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 45 | 40 | 52 | Semi-final | |
| 2020 | Eliteserien | 7 | 30 | 13 | 4 | 13 | 52 | 51 | 43 | Cancelled | |
| 2021 | Eliteserien | 13 | 30 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 44 | 58 | 33 | Fourth round | |
| 2022 | Eliteserien | 5 | 30 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 43 | 45 | 45 | Fourth round | |
| 2023 | Eliteserien | 10 | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 42 | 44 | 38 | Third round | |
| 2024 | Eliteserien | ↓16 | 30 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 26 | 54 | 23 | Third round | Relegated to the1. divisjon |
| 2025 | 1. divisjon | 9 | 30 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 37 | 50 | 33 | First round |
| Competition | S | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup | 5 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 37 | 32 | +5 |
| Total | 5 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 37 | 32 | +5 |
| Season | Competition | Round | Opponent | 1st Leg | 2nd Leg | Aggregate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001–02 | UEFA Cup | 1R |  Helsingborgs IF | 2–2 | 1–1 | 3–3 (a) |  |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Cup | 2Q |  FK Ekranas | 3–1 | 1–2 | 4–3 |  |
| 1R |  Feyenoord | 0–1 | 1–4 | 1–5 | | ||
| 2015–16 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q |  FC Sheriff Tiraspol | 3–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | |
| 2Q |  Shamrock Rovers | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | | ||
| 3Q | Elfsborg | 1–2 | 2–0 | 3–2 | | ||
| PO |  Borussia Dortmund | 3–4 | 2–7 | 5–11 | | ||
| 2016–17 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q |  IFK Mariehamn | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | |
| 2Q |  PAS Giannina | 0–3 | 3–1 | 3–4 | | ||
| 2017–18 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q |  Ballymena United | 3–0 | 2–0 | 5–0 | |
| 2Q |  Vaduz | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | | ||
| 3Q |  Dinamo Zagreb | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | |
