About the club

It all really began in the late 1940s with the so-called “Lindebøs gods'” general sports involvement and their desire to bring shape and speed to Øya’s sports life. At that time, there was no organized sport on the island. Some of the Lindebøs boys were admittedly in Våg, football and athletics club. In addition, Erling Rudolfsen from Mæbø and Torbjørn Martinsen from Skålevig were involved in KIF athletics. Other than that, it was mostly “Ljåstubb” football and random man-to-man matches in quiet length, height with scissor style and “bucket-step-jump”.

The actual establishment of Flekkerøy Sports Club was staged through the association Flekkerøyfolk, whose motto for the Island was: “Higher up and further forward”. At a members’ meeting of the association on 8 July 1950, the chairman Thoralf Kristiansa suggested that a sports team should be formed. This was unanimously adopted, and in the protocol, which also included recommendations for, and support for, a sports field and gymnasium at the new school, it states, among other things, “It is a prerequisite that Øya’s youth will benefit from this.