EIK'S MATCHDAY-PROGRAMME:

Programmes, or team-sheets as they were mostly back then, were introduced in Norway around WW1, with the Norwegian FA producing newspaperstyle programmes for internationals and cupfinals. At clublevel programmes were issued only on irregular occasions. Our own club produced a single page teamsheet for their first game after the club’s foundation in 1919 (picture right), but after a few more teamsheets throughout the 1920s the programme did not return on a regular basis until 1969.

Even then the 8-page programme (picture left) only included a line-up on the frontcover and recent results on the back-page. The rest of the programme was made up entirely by small advertisements. The EIK-programme improved slightly from 1976 onwards, with the introduction of a few pictures in each issue, and reached a good level by Norwegian standards in the early 80s when crowds of around the 1000-mark were common.

Later, as crowds declined following relegation, the standard of the programme went the same way, with only a single sheet being inserted into a preprinted seasonprogramme. However, the standard started to get better around 2000 and over the past few seasons we have issued a programme second to none at our level, with the 48-pages programme produced for the friendly against Birmingham City (right) in July 2005 being amongst the best Norwegian club-programmes ever produced.

It can be purchased from our Club shop.

In 2006, our 32 page programme was voted Norway's 3rd best clubprogramme!

For a full galleri of our programmecovers over the years click here.

For a full galleri of our programmecovers from 2006, click here.