Hødd

Idrettslaget Hødd is a multi-sports club from Ulsteinvik in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Founded in 1919, it has sections for team handball, gymnastics and football. It is best known for their men's football team, which plays at Høddvoll Stadion, whose stated capacity is 3,120, although there was an attendance of over 12,000 at a match against Vålerenga in 1981.

Hødd are currently playing in Second Division, the third tier of Norwegian football. They played in the top tier in 1966, 1969–72 (4 seasons) and 1995 and is the club who has played most seasons at the second tier. Hødd won the Norwegian Cup in 2012.

Idrottslaget Hødd was founded on 1 August 1919. The name derives from Höðr, which was a gifted archer in Norse mythology, and means "battle" or "fight". Before the Second World War, the football team was not competitive with the two big clubs in the region, Rollon and Aalesund. Hødd was first promoted to the Landsdelserien (second tier) in 1950, and was close on promotion to Hovedserien in both the 1951–52 season and the 1958–59 season, but lost the promotion in the play-off against Ranheim and Brage respectively. Hødd also reached the third round of the Norwegian Football Cup on several occasions during the 1950s, where they were eliminated by first-tier teams.

Hødd was promoted to the First Division for the first time in the 1965 season when they won their Second Division group ahead of Rosenborg and Brann on goal difference, after Rosenborg lost 2–1 against Brann in the decisive match while Hødd won 8–2 against Kvik Trondheim on Lerkendal Stadion. Kjetil Hasund was the big star on the team, but there were also other good players on the team like Hallbjørn Hasund, Hans Gisle Holstad, Jan Ulfstein, Tor Meinseth and Otto Sundgot. As a small team from a small pl