SK Brann
Also written as Brann.
The club
Sportsklubben Brann were founded on 26 September 1908 as Ski- og Fotboldklubben Brann, the ski and football club Brann, in Bergen, Norway's second city. The name means fire. They play in red shirts with white shorts and are known as Bergens Stolthet, the Pride of Bergen, and as Fotballrepublikken, the football republic.
The ground is Brann Stadion in Bergen, which opened in 1919 and holds 17,500. The club set a Norwegian record average attendance of 17,310 in the 2007 season, the year it won the league for the first time since 1963. Brann have spent sixty-seven of their eighty seasons in the Norwegian top flight, the second-highest total of any Norwegian club.
The chairman is Arild Mjøs Andersen. The head coach is Eirik Horneland, in his second spell; he had the job from 2021, first as caretaker, until 2024, and returned in 2026. Freyr Alexandersson was in charge from 2025 and led the team until 1 June 2026. Before Horneland's first spell came Kåre Ingebrigtsen from 2020 to 2021 and Lars Arne Nilsen from 2015 to 2020.
Confusion warning: Brann are the club of Bergen and are not to be confused with any other Norwegian side in this corpus. They are not Viking FK of Stavanger, who have their own file here, and they are not Lillestrøm SK, who also have their own file. This corpus already contains two clubs called Viking and three called Dinamo, so the point is worth stating plainly: Brann are Brann, of Bergen, and are a separate club from every other Norwegian team recorded here.
Recent seasons
Norway plays a calendar-year season. Brann finished fourteenth in the Eliteserien in 2021 and were relegated. They won the First Division at the first attempt in 2022 and came straight back up. They then finished second in 2023 with 61 points, second again in 2024 with 59, and fourth in 2025 with 56 points from thirty matches.
Honours and landmarks
Brann have won the Norwegian top division three times, in 1961/62, 1963 and 2007, and have been runners-up eight times, in 1951/52, 1975, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2016, 2023 and 2024. The 2007 title ended a wait of forty-four years.
They have won the Norwegian Cup seven times, in 1923, 1925, 1972, 1976, 1982, 2004 and 2022, and have been beaten finalists ten times, among them 1917, 1918, 1950, 1978, 1987, 1988, 1995, 1999, 2011 and 2025/26.
Notable scorelines
Brann's record win and record defeat were not established from the sources read here. The most striking recent scoreline is the 4-2 win after extra time away to Apollon Limassol on 11 August 2026, which turned a first-leg deficit into qualification.
European record
Brann's best European run remains the 1996/97 Cup Winners' Cup, in which they reached the quarter-finals and lost 4-1 on aggregate to Liverpool.
In the 2023/24 Conference League they reached the play-off round and went out to AZ Alkmaar on penalties after the tie finished 4-4. In 2024/25 they again reached the Conference League play-off round and lost to Astana 3-2 on aggregate.
The 2025/26 Europa League was the first time Brann reached a main league phase. They finished twenty-fourth of thirty-six with two wins, five draws and one defeat, then went out in the knockout play-offs to Bologna, losing 1-0 at home on 19 February 2026 and 1-0 away on 26 February, 2-0 on aggregate.
Quotes
No directly quoted material was confirmed from the sources read here.
Right now (2026/27)
Eirik Horneland is the head coach. Brann entered the 2026/27 Conference League at the second qualifying round, in the Main Path, having finished fourth in the 2025 Eliteserien.
In the second qualifying round they drew 2-2 away to Universitatea Cluj on 23 July 2026 and won the home leg 3-1 on 30 July. The third qualifying round against Apollon Limassol began badly: Brann lost 1-0 at Brann Stadion on 5 August 2026, Alen Ožbolt scoring on twenty-two minutes in front of 12,750, with Damian Kos of Poland refereeing. The return at the Alphamega Stadium in Limassol on 11 August was won 4-2 after extra time. Kristall Máni Ingason scored on sixteen minutes, Noah Holm equalised the tie in the sixth minute of stoppage time at the end of normal play, and Kristian Eriksen scored in extra time on one hundred and five minutes; Ivan Ljubić and Gaétan Weissbeck scored for Apollon on eighty-six and ninety-two. The attendance was 7,253 and the referee was Rob Harvey of the Republic of Ireland. Brann went through 4-3 on aggregate. The scorer of Brann's fourth goal in that match was not established from the sources read here.
The play-off round is against PAOK. The first leg at the Toumba Stadium in Thessaloniki on 20 August 2026 finished 1-1: Kristian Eriksen put Brann ahead on fifty-seven minutes and Abdul Rahman Baba equalised for PAOK on eighty. The attendance was 14,667 and Daniel Siebert of Germany refereed.
The second leg is at Brann Stadion on 27 August 2026 and is still to be played. The tie is level at 1-1. John Brooks of England is the referee.
Domestically Brann sit sixth in the 2026 Eliteserien with 25 points from seventeen matches, eight wins, one draw and eight defeats, thirty-six goals scored and twenty-seven conceded. They also reached the 2025/26 Norwegian Cup final and lost it to Bodø/Glimt 4-2 on penalties after a 3-3 draw.
Summer arrivals included Kristall Máni Ingason from Sønderjyske for a reported 1.4 million euros, Cheikh Mbacké Diop from Lokomotiva Zagreb for a reported thirty million kroner, Rabbi Matondo from Rangers and Kristian Eriksen from Molde for a reported 7.5 million kroner. Departures included Eivind Helland to Bologna for a reported 8.5 million euros, Emil Kornvig to Widzew Łódź for a reported 3.5 million euros and Japhet Sery Larsen to Philadelphia Union for a reported fifteen million kroner.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK_Brann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_SK_Brann_season https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026%E2%80%9327_UEFA_Conference_League_qualifying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026%E2%80%9327_UEFA_Conference_League_qualifying_(third_and_play-off_round_matches) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324_UEFA_Europa_Conference_League_group_stage
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