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Faroe Islands Premier League
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The Faroe Islands Premier League is the top level of football in the Faroe Islands. It was founded in 2005, replacing 1, deild and it is organised by the Faroe Islands Football Association. The league is now called Effodeildin, from February 2009 to December 2011 was known as Vodafonedeildin and Formuladeildin from 2005 to 2008 for sponsorship reasons. The league will be called Effodeildin until 2017, all teams in the league have semi-professional status. It currently has 10 participating clubs, at the end of each season, two teams are relegated and two promoted from 1. Deild The league was founded in 1942, although clubs did not take part in European competition until 1992, in 2003 HB Tórshavn won the league and equalled KÍ Klaksvíks record of 17 titles, a year later HB bettered that and won the title for the 18th time. Deild was renamed Formuladeildin for sponsorship reasons, deild adopted the name of 1. Deild, the 3rd and 4th tier were named 2, then 5 years later in 2009, a 3-year deal was agreed with Vodafone and the name was changed again to Vodafonedeildin. In February 2012 the name was changed to Effodeildin, a 3-year deal was agreed with the Faroese petrol company Effo, the league renewed with Effo and will be called Effodeildin until 2017. ||07 Vestur || B36 || EB/Streymur || HB || ÍF || KÍ || NSÍ || Skála || TB || Vikingur || Source, Source, GÍ merged into Vikingur for 2008 Source, League at UEFA League at FSF League at Faroe Soccer
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B68 Toftir
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B68 Toftir is a Faroese football club, playing in the village of Toftir in Effodeildin. After being promoted to the 1, deild in 1980, they won the league 3 times, in 1984,1985, and 1992. 2005 saw them back to the top flight, coming first in the second division. In 2007 they easily won the division, and were promoted. In the 2008 season theycame 6th out of 10 in the Premier League, in the 2009 season, they finished in 4th place. In 2010 they finished as number 7 in Effodeildin, and in 2011 they finished as number 6. In 2012, B68 Toftir ended as number 9 in Effodeildin and were relegated and they won the match 4–1, but it was not enough. Faroe Islands Premier League,31984,1985,19921, deild,41980,2005,2007,2013 FSF Trophy,12005 As of 9 May 2016 Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality
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07 Vestur
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07 Vestur is a Faroese football club, which was founded in 2007. It is located in Sandavágur and Sørvágur on Vágar island, the club was founded 18 December 1993 as FS Vágar. It was a merger of Vágar island teams MB Miðvágur and SÍF Sandavágur in order to increase the standard of this part of the Faroe Islands. SÍ Sørvágur, also located on Vágar, joined the club in 1998, soon, the newly founded club promoted to the national top league which, at that point in 1995, was called 1. Unfortunately, the team was not able to secure a top-tier spot over the years. In 2003, FS Vágar was relegated for good, soon after that, the alliance between the three founding clubs began to crumble, and FS Vágar was eventually disbanded in the fall of 2004. Despite the controversy, many wanted to keep the club alive or, if this was not possible. So, on 8 November 2004, the club was re-founded as FS Vágar 2004, in fall 2007, talks about a merger between FSV04 and SÍ Sørvágur, one of the members of the first incarnation of the club, started and were successfully concluded on 6 November 2007. The club was renamed 07 Vestur, shortly afterwards, the new name refers both to the founding year of the new club and the location of Vágar island, which is approximately 7° W. The club currently maintains two mens teams and also a womens team, in 2009 the mens first team played in the Faroe Islands Premier League, but they were relegated and played in 1. The first-team gained promotion to Effodeildin in 2012 after winning 1, in 2013 the team was relegated to 1. Deild again and has been playing in 1, deild Winners,2008,2010,2012 Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality, national players Torkil Nielsen, former national player for the Faroe Islands. He scored the goal for the Faroe Islands in 1990 in the match against Austria, which Faroe Islands won 1–0
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B71 Sandoy
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B71 is a Faroese sports club, playing their home games Inni í Dal, Sandur. Teams are made up of players all the towns on the island of Sandoy. Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules, players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Although B71 is one of the youngest football-teams in the Faroe Islands, Football had been played well before B71 was established in 1970, but since sand-surfaces were deemed unsuitable for football, a team had yet to be formed. In the late 1960s, two of the towns, Sandur and Skopun, started to compete. There were no goals, so instead they used two rocks each, representing goalposts and this rivalry between two of Sandoys biggest towns went on for several summers, bringing in truckloads of people from Skopun, even though cars had yet to be accessible to the common man. At around the time, a new school was being built on Sandoy. As a result of this, people started talking about forming a new team and on New Years Day 1970, the preliminary year, the team was called Sand, since only players from the town of Sandur were fielded. But the following year the name was changed to B71. Since players from the island wanted to be a part of the team. The first year two teams were fielded. One senior team, playing in, what in those days was referred to as Meðaldeildin, in the beginning, B71 took baby-steps towards their eventual greater years in the late 1980s, early-to-mid-1990s. Nothing really spectacular happened until B71 became 3, two years later, in 1988, they won the 2. Division and then, remarkably, they became 1, division champions in 1989, without losing a single game that year. B71 also reached the final of the Faroese Cup in 1989, the initial match resulted in a 1–1 draw, but they ended up losing 2–0 after the replay. In the space of 3–4 years B71 had gone from being an obscure 3, for some reason or another, B71 were unable to defend their title the following year. Rather than posing a challenge, B71 were relegated, forced to spend at least a year in the second-best division. The shame would, however, be short-lived, since B71 immediately bounced back and were promoted the next year
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Faroe Islands
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The Faroe Islands, also spelled the Faeroes, is an archipelago between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic, about halfway between Norway and Iceland,320 kilometres north-northwest of Scotland. Its area is about 1,400 square kilometres with a population of 49,188 in 2016, the Faeroe Islands is an autonomous country within the Danish Realm. The land of the Faeroes is rugged, and these islands have an oceanic climate, windy, wet, cloudy. Despite this island groups northerly latitude, temperatures average above freezing throughout the year because of the Gulf Stream, between 1035 and 1814, the Faeroes were part of the Hereditary Kingdom of Norway. In 1814, the Treaty of Kiel granted Denmark control over the islands, the Faroe Islands have been a self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark since 1948. The Faroese have control of most domestic matters, areas that remain the responsibility of Denmark include military defence, the police department, the justice department, currency, and foreign affairs. However, as they are not part of the customs area as Denmark, the Faroe Islands have an independent trade policy. The islands also have representation in the Nordic Council as members of the Danish delegation, the people of the Faroe Islands also compete as national team in certain sports. In Danish, the name Færøerne may reflect an Old Norse word fær, the morpheme øerne represents a plural of ø in Danish. The Danish name thus translates as the islands of sheep, in Faroese, the name appears as Føroyar. Oyar represents the plural of oy, older Faroese for island, the modern Faeroese word for island is oyggj. In the English language, their name is sometimes spelled Faeroe, archaeological evidence shows settlers living on the Faroe Islands in two successive periods prior to the arrival of the Norse, the first between 400 and 600 and the second between 600 and 800. Scientists from the University of Aberdeen have also found early cereal pollen from domesticated plants, archaeologist Mike Church noted that Dicuil mentioned what may have been the Faroes. He also suggested that the living there might have been from Ireland, Scotland or Scandinavia. A Latin account of a made by Brendan, an Irish monastic saint who lived around 484–578. This association, however, is far from conclusive in its description, Dicuil, an Irish monk of the early 9th century, wrote a more definite account. 800, bringing Old West Norse, which evolved into the modern Faroese language, according to Icelandic sagas such as Færeyjar Saga, one of the best known men in the island was Tróndur í Gøtu, a descendant of Scandinavian chiefs who had settled in Dublin, Ireland. Tróndur led the battle against Sigmund Brestursson, the Norwegian monarchy, a traditional name for the islands in Irish, Na Scigirí, possibly refers to the Skeggjar Beards, a nickname given to island dwellers
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