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SK Vard Haugesund

association football club in Haugesund, Norway

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ2529867 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sportsklubben Vard Haugesund is a Norwegian professional football club located in Haugesund. The team currently plays in the 3. divisjon after being relegated from the 2. divisjon in 2025. The team reached the Norwegian Football Cup finals in 1962 and 1975. Vard played in the Norwegian top flight in 1976.

Recent history

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Current squad

As of 3 September 2025

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “SK Vard Haugesund” as association football club in Haugesund, Norway. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 1962, 1975, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1916-06-02. The account is most persuasive where Vard, Haugesund and association can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as association football club in Haugesund, Norway. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2529867. VIAF identifies the subject as 260151112556037180008. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2025, 1962, 1975 and 1976.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “SK Vard Haugesund”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow SK Vard Haugesund primary sources, SK Vard Haugesund archive and Vard research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “SK Vard Haugesund”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from “SK Vard Haugesund” 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.