Ice Hockey Teams in Norway Codexery — Data & Quality

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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-09-07 · 19 entries checked · 16 flagged · 37 issues confirmed · 16 corrected · 21 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

IK Comet — The club currently plays in the EliteHockey Ligaen is incorrect; IK Comet currently plays in the 1. divisjon (second tier), not the EliteHockey Ligaen.

IK Comet — The club reached the semi-finals in 2008 after upsetting Sparta in seven games of the quarter-finals (4-2 in games) is contradictory; a seven-game series would be 4-3, not 4-2. The correct result was 4-3 in games.

Frisk Asker Ishockey — The entry states Frisk Asker has 4 national championships (1975, 1979, 2002, 2019), but the team has won 5, including 2023.

Frisk Asker Ishockey — The lore states Barry Smith coached the team to the 1986 playoff finals, but he was not the coach in 1986.

Furuset Ishockey — Furuset has won six Norwegian Championships, not seven; the years are 1949, 1951, 1953, 1980, 1983, 1990 (1950 is not a championship year).

Furuset Ishockey — Furuset is not a founding member of the Norwegian Ice Hockey Association; the founding clubs were Grane, Ready, and others.

Jar IL — The entry states the men's ice hockey team achieved a third-place finish in the 1970s, but historically Jar IL's best league finish was 4th place in the 1970–71 season, not 3rd.

Jar IL — The entry claims the ice hockey team's last season in the First Division was 2003–2004, but Jar IL's men's team last played in the First Division (second tier) in the 2004–2005 season before being relegated.

IL Jutul — The entry claims the women's volleyball team won eight national titles in the first ten years of the Norwegian championship, but the championship began in 1976, not immediately post-war, and the titles were won in the 1970s and 1980s, not in the first ten year

IL Jutul — The entry states three players were sent to the first Norwegian national team in 1953, selected by internal sortition, but there is no documented evidence for this claim, making it likely invented.

Lillehammer IK — The club's founding date is given as 2 November 1957, but the widely accepted founding date for Lillehammer Ishockeyklubb is 1 November 1957.

Lillehammer IK — The claim that the club surged from the third division to the Eliteserien in three years following the Olympic bid is inaccurate. Lillehammer IK actually rose from the third division to the top division (Eliteserien) in two seasons (1989–90 to 1990–91), not th

Manglerud Star Ishockey — The claim that Manglerud Star has delivered more players to professional ice hockey leagues worldwide than any other Norwegian team is unsubstantiated and contradicts general knowledge about teams like Vålerenga, Frisk Asker, or Storhamar having produced more

Manglerud Star Ishockey — The claim that the city of Oslo funded a renovation of Manglerudhallen in 2004, which also includes a football arena beside the hockey rink, is not verifiable as a widely-known factual event; the specific year and details about a football arena are not part of

Norway men's national ice hockey team — The claim that Norway's worst defeat ever was against Finland in 1947 is incorrect; historical records show Norway lost 0–17 to Canada in 1949, which is a larger margin.

Norway men's national ice hockey team — The statement that Norway was the first Western nation to play the Soviet Union in 1953 is incorrect; the Soviet Union played its first international game against Finland in 1952, and other Western nations played the USSR before 1953.

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