Bryne FK

Bryne Fotballklubb (Danish pronunciation: [ˈb̥ʁyːnə]) is a Norwegian football club from the town of Bryne. Founded in 1926, they currently play in Norwegian football's second highest division, Adeccoligaen.

Stadium

Bryne spent the majority of their early years playing on a small, rented field next to Bryne Mill, before acquiring the site of their current home ground, Bryne Stadion, at the end of the 1930s. At the time of its inauguration in September 1946, the stadium's grass pitch was one of the largest in the country and a far cry from the 85x55 m dimensions of the Bryne Mill field.

Bryne Stadion is used both for football and athletics and has a capacity of 10,000, of which 2,507 are seated. The record attendance is 13,621 paying spectators, achieved when Bryne defeated Viking on 26 May 1980, although as many as 14,500 were estimated to have attended an earlier game between the two rivals, on 9 October 1977. The club considers 13,621 to be the official record since there were only 12,236 paying spectators at this other game.

Reserve teams in Norwegian football

Reserve teams in Norwegian association football play in the ordinary league system. They are always attached to their first teams with a "2" suffix, must play in a lower league than the first team, and cannot play in the Premier League or First Division. Furthermore, if a club's first team plays in the First Division, the reserves team cannot play in the Second Division either.

Controversy

Reserve teams have in general been criticized for fielding uneven teams from week to week, with many first-team players one week and more youth players the next. They have also been criticized for keeping smaller clubs out of the Second Division, meaning a more centralized football culture. In 2009 manager Ivar Morten Normark proposed to throw the reserve teams out of the ordinary league pyramid, and other managers like Dag Eilev Fagermo agreed. In a survey, 19 of 31 responding Second Division clubs wanted the reserve teams out, as did 30 of the 49 responding Third Division clubs.

Bryne

Bryne (Danish pronunciation: [ˈb̥ʁyːnə]) is a city, located in, and the administrative centre of, the municipality of Time, Norway in Rogaland county. Bryne is located about 25 minutes south of Stavanger by train. The area of Bryne is 4,79 km².

The municipality of Time, Norway has 15,459 inhabitants (2007) and the "urban settlement" itself 9,627 (2009). Its location in the prospering region of Stavanger/Sandnes and excellent traffic links making Bryne an attractive area for commuters, it is currently expanding rapidly and there have been reports of problems with schooling capacity.

History

Bryne was founded as Thime Station, reflecting its location along the railroad Jærbanen going from Stavanger to Egersund. The small village was one of many popping up around the new stations on the railroad finalized in 1878. A new chapel was soon built (Saron, 1878), as well as a store, a wool processing facility and a dairy farm.

Several industries related to agriculture also emerged, producing ploughs, mowers and harvesting equipment. Many years later, the first excavator in Europe with complete hydraulic transmission of power, the Brøyt (Trademark), was introduced by the two brothers Kristian and Ingebret Søyland (1949). Also the company Tralfa developed the world's first spray paint robot, today run by ABB.

Bryne (disambiguation)

Bryne may refer to:

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