Ungmennafélagið Þróttur, commonly known as Þróttur Vogum, is an Icelandic

sports club A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

from the town of

Vogar Vogar () is a small town in the southwest of Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capi ...

Basketball

Men's basketball

in 2007, Þróttur men's team won the

2. deild karla 2. deild karla (English: Men's Second Division) is a football league in Iceland. It is the third division in the Icelandic football league system. The current champions are Afturelding from Mosfellsbær, who won their 1st title in 2018. The divi ...

and were promoted to the second-tier 1. deild karla. The following season, it finished last in the 1. deild karla and were relegated back to 2. deild karla. After not fielding a team for several seasons, Þróttur returned to the national tournament in 2020 and registered a team in the

3. deild karla 3. deild karla (e. Men's Third division) is a football league in Iceland. It is the fourth level in the Icelandic football league system. The league was reformed into a 10-team double round-robin tournament for the 2013 season, with the introdu ...

Notable players

Honors

: **Winners: 2007

Football

Men's football

In 2017, the men's football team finished second in the

and was promoted to the third tier of Icelandic football for the first time in the club's history. In July 2020, the team hired former Icelandic international player

Hermann Hreiðarsson Hermann Hreiðarsson (born 11 July 1974) is an Icelandic former professional football player and coach. He played as a defender and spent 15 seasons in England, gaining a total of 315 appearances in the Premier League. Hermann was relegated fr ...

as its manager. Later that month, former English international player

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served as an assistant for Hermann during one game.

Honors

: **''Runner-up'': 2017

References

External links

Official website

Profile
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