16 years and 351 days. Hødd failed to defend the Norwegian Cup title, as the team was eliminated by the defending Tippeligaen winners Molde in the third round of the 2013 Norwegian Football Cup, after a penalty shoot-out where Hødd's former goalkeeper Ørjan Nyland, who had transferred to Molde after the previous season, saved two penalties. As a result of the Norwegian Cup win, Hødd qualified for the first time in a European competition, Europa League. They debuted with a 1–0 victory at home against Aktobe, but the European adventure ended after a 2–0 loss in the second leg. Notable players After the relegation from the top-flight in 1972, the club did not manage to keep the talented youngsters at the club, and Svein Inge Urke and Åge Hareide moved to Start and Molde respectively. For the next decades, the club continued to develop talented players, like the sons of the generation that played in the First Division, Geir Hasund, Børre Meinseth, Egil Ulfstein, Ole Bjørn Sundgot and Arild Sundgot along with Jan Åge Fjørtoft and Karl Oskar Fjørtoft moved elsewhere to play in the top-flight after having had a good development in Hødd. In 2012, Hødd arranged an official voting of the best player in the history of the club and Kjetil Hasund, who scored 460 goals in 646 matches for Hødd, was voted as the best ever player. He was capped 16 times for Norway and is still the only player to be capped for Norway while playing for Hødd. With his 683 matches, André Nevstad is the player with most matches for Hødd and he was voted as the second best Hødd-player, while Otto Sundgot finished third in the competition. Åge Hareide, Sindre Eid, Hallbjørn Hasund, Karl Oskar Fjørtoft, Geir Hasund, Geir Televik and Jan Åge Fjørtoft were the other players in the top ten, while Vidar Ulstein was voted as the best goalkeeper. Honours Norwegian Football Cup: Winner (1): 2012 Recent history {|class="wikitable" |-bgcolor="#efefef" ! Season ! ! Pos. ! Pl. ! W ! D ! L ! GS ! GA ! P !Cup !Notes |- |2001 |1. divisjon |align=right |11 |align=right|30||align=right|9||align=right|8||align=right|13 |align=right|50||align=right|51||align=right|35 ||Fourth round | |- |2002 |1. divisjon |align=right |7 |align=right|30||align=right|16||align=right|4||align=right|10 |align=right|50||align=right|41||align=right|52 ||Fourth round | |- |2003 |1. divisjon |align=right |11 |align=right|30||align=right|9||align=right|8||align=right|13 |align=right|51||align=right|54||align=right|35 ||Third round | |- |2004 |1. divisjon |align=right |6 |align=right|30||align=right|14||align=right|2||align=right|14 |align=right|63||align=right|59||align=right|44 ||Third round | |- |2005 |1. divisjon |align=right |9 |align=right|10||align=right|7||align=right|13||align=right|37