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FK Narvik/Nor

football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ5426268
Source-derived summary

Fotballklubben Narvik/Nor was a Norwegian association football club from Narvik. It existed until late 1997, when it was merged with FK Mjølner to form Narvik FK.

Narvik FK changed its name to Mjølner FK in 2005.

History

The club won the Northern Norwegian Cup in 1929, 1937, 1950 og 1959. It played in the Second Division (third tier) for many years, but at the second tier in the seasons 1970, 1974 and 1975.

In 1997, it played in the Second Division. In group 8 it finished in seventh place, one point behind Mjølner-Narvik. On 23 October 1997 an extraordinary general meeting in Narvik/Nor decided unanimously to discontinue the club and to merge with FK Mjølner-Narvik to form Narvik FK. The new club had the name Narvik FK until 2005, when it was changed to FK Mjølner.

Former players were Thomas Hafstad, Jonny Hanssen and Espen Olafsen.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “FK Narvik/Nor” is football club. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Narvik, football and club, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2005, 1929, 1937—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1914. For this dossier, Narvik, football and club is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “football club” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5426268. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997, 2005, 1929 and 1937.

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This entry incorporates text from FK Narvik/Nor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.