Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag (
Faroese for ''Sports Club of Klaksvík''), commonly known as KÍ, is a
Faroese professional
football
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club based in
Klaksvík
Klaksvík is the second largest town of the Faroe Islands behind Tórshavn. The town is located on Borðoy, which is one of the northernmost islands (the Norðoyar). It is the administrative centre of Klaksvík municipality.
History
The first ...
. The club was founded in 1904 and is one of the most successful Faroese football clubs, having won the
Faroe Islands Premier League
The Faroe Islands Premier League (also known as ''Betri deildin menn'' for sponsorship reasons) is the top level of football in the Faroe Islands. It was founded in 1942 as Meistaradeildin, and it is played in current format since 2005, when Prem ...
20 times and the
Faroe Islands Cup
The Faroe Islands Cup (, literally the Prime Minister Cup) is the main football cup competition in the Faroe Islands. The first edition was played in 1955.
History The HB–TB decade
The first decade of the competition was marked by the alternanc ...
6 times. The club wears blue and white and plays matches at the
Við Djúpumýrar
Við Djúpumýrar (formerly also known as ''Injector Arena'' for sponsorship reasons) is a multi-use stadium in Klaksvík, Faroe Islands. It is mostly used for football matches. Við Djúpumýrar is the home ground of Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag m ...
stadium.
History
KÍ won the inaugural edition of
Faroese top-tier football in 1942.
In 1992, KÍ Klaksvík participated for the first time on a European stage, competing in the
Champions League preliminary round against
Skonto Riga
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of
Latvia
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, where they lost 6–1 on aggregate.
By winning the
double
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in 1999, KÍ reached a total of 17 league titles, a record at the time.
KÍ didn't win the league title again until
2019
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, and although it held the honour of having won the most league titles since the 1950s, it was surpassed by
HB in 2004.
Although the team signed former great Todi Jónsson and local
Atli Danielsen
Atli Danielsen (born 15 August 1983) is a Faroese footballer who currently plays for KÍ Klaksvík in the Premier League of the Faroe Islands.
Club career
Danielsen started with KÍ Klaksvík, playing his first game in their 2000 league seas ...
in July 2009 for the remainder of the
season
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, KÍ was relegated for the first time in the club's 105 year-long history at the time.
Despite a slow start, they managed to return to the top league for 2011, when they finished fifth under the guidance of manager Aleksandar Đorđević.
In 2012, KÍ did one better than the previous year, and finished in 4th position. The team was the most potent attacking side, scoring 59 goals in 27 matches; Páll Klettskarð scored 22 goals and was the joint top-scorer. In the buildup to the 2013 season, Atli Danielsen and Meinhardt Joensen were signed, helping KÍ to reach the semi-final of the cup. However, they finished the league season in a disappointing 8th place. Ndende Adama Guéye was signed after the season, and the team hired a new manager, Mikkjal Thomassen, who has managed the team until the present.
The new manager implemented a new system, foreign to most of the players, and so KÍ experienced a difficult start to the season. Later in the first half of the season, the team had implemented the style, playing attractive, free-flowing attacking football, eventually finishing fifth.
In 2016, they missed out on their first league title since 1999 by just one point to
Víkingur Gøta
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, although they did win the
Faroe Islands Cup
The Faroe Islands Cup (, literally the Prime Minister Cup) is the main football cup competition in the Faroe Islands. The first edition was played in 1955.
History The HB–TB decade
The first decade of the competition was marked by the alternanc ...
.
The next year, they lost the title to the same team by an even closer margin, only having a slightly worse goal difference. While the
next season was a disappointment, with the team only finishing fifth, the following years, starting with
the 2019 season would prove remarkable ones.
That year, KÍ not only won their first title in twenty years, but they managed to reach the second qualifying round of the
UEFA Europa League
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for the first time, defeating
Riteriai from
Lithuania
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on away goals. In 2020, KÍ went one better, becoming the first Faroese team to qualify for the
Europa League playoff
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round by beating
Dinamo Tbilisi
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6–1 in the third qualifying round, which KÍ had reached for the first time. This shock result, against a much larger and more prestigious European club, was watched by seventy percent of the
Klaksvik population, and set up what was labelled 'the biggest game in their history' against the
Irish
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club
Dundalk F.C, which they lost 3–1.
Stadium
KÍ Klaksvík plays its games in
Við Djúpumýrar
Við Djúpumýrar (formerly also known as ''Injector Arena'' for sponsorship reasons) is a multi-use stadium in Klaksvík, Faroe Islands. It is mostly used for football matches. Við Djúpumýrar is the home ground of Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag m ...
, a stadium with a capacity of 530 (2600 with standing places). For the team's 2020 European qualification, the
Tórsvøllur
Tórsvøllur is a football stadium on the sport site of Gundadalur in Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. The stadium holds 5,000 people, and was built in 1999 to become the country's national stadium to provide an artificial grass surfac ...
stadium, which normally hosts the
national team
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was used, since the Við Djúpumýrar stadium did not meet
UEFA
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requirements for the third qualifying round and above.
Current squad
Notable former players
*
Rógvi Jacobsen, played 53 matches for the Faroe Islands national team, scored 10 goals.
*
Todi Jónsson
Todi Adam Jónsson (born 2 February 1972) is a retired Faroese professional football striker who has played for Danish premier league clubs Lyngby FC and FC København, Norwegian club Start and Danish club Fremad Amager. He started and ended ...
, played 45 matches for the Faroe Islands national team, scored 9 goals. He played several years for
FC Copenhagen
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in the
Danish Superliga
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.
*
Jákup Mikkelsen
Jákup Nolsøe Mikkelsen (born 14 August 1970) is a Faroese former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made 522 league appearances in representing six clubs in a career spanning 25 years, also representing his country at international lev ...
, played 73 matches for the
Faroe Islands national football team
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as goalkeeper.
*
Allan Mørkøre
Allan Mørkøre (born 22 November 1971) is a former Faroese professional football midfielder. Now he is a manager for B71 Sandoy, which plays in the men's second best division. He was manager for AB from 2008 to 2010, he replaced Sigfríður ...
, played 54 matches for the Faroe Islands national team, scored 1 goal.
*
Kurt Mørkøre
Kurt Mørkøre (born 20 February 1969) is a former Faroese football midfielder or striker who is currently manager of the Norwegian club Averøykameratene. He is the elder brother of fellow Faroese international Allan Mørkøre. He is a bake ...
, played 37 matches for the Faroe Islands national team, scored 3 goals.
*
Mayowa Alli
*
Albert Adu
* Filip Djordjevic
Managers
*
John Reid Bjartalíð (1945–1970)
*
Sölvi Óskarsson (1972)
*
Tony Paris
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(1977–1978)
*
Peter Kordt (1980)
*
Jens Hvidemose (1983–1984)
*
Peter Kordt (1985)
*
Olvheðin Jacobsen (1986)
*
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(1987)
*
Jens Hvidemose (1988)
*
John Kramer (1990)
*
Petur Mohr (1991–1994)
*
Sverri Jacobsen (1994–1995)
*
Jóannes Jakobsen
Jóannes Jakobsen (born 25 August 1961) is a former Faroese football defender, as well as musician and composer, having released three albums on the Faroe Islands and produced a number of albums for other artists. He is the former assistant co ...
(1996–1998)
*
Tony Paris
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* Tony (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
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* Motu Tony (born 1981), New Zealand international rugby leagu ...
(1999)
*
Tomislav Sivić
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(2000–2001)
*
Kurt Mørkøre
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(2002)
*
Jan Joensen
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(2003)
*
Ove Flindt Bjerg
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References ...
(2004–2005)
*
Oddbjørn Joensen (2005)
*
Tony Paris
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* Motu Tony (born 1981), New Zealand international rugby leagu ...
(2006–2007)
*
Trygvi Mortensen (2007)
*
Eyðun Klakkstein (2007–2008)
*
Petur Mohr (2008–2009)
*
Aleksandar Đorđević
Aleksandar "Saša" Đorđević or Sale Đorđević (Anglicized: Sasha Djordjevic; sr-Cyrl, Александар Саша Ђорђевић, ; born 26 August 1967) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player. He currently serve ...
&
Jákup Mikkelsen
Jákup Nolsøe Mikkelsen (born 14 August 1970) is a Faroese former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made 522 league appearances in representing six clubs in a career spanning 25 years, also representing his country at international lev ...
(2009)
*
Petur Mohr (2009–2010)
*
Aleksandar Đorđević
Aleksandar "Saša" Đorđević or Sale Đorđević (Anglicized: Sasha Djordjevic; sr-Cyrl, Александар Саша Ђорђевић, ; born 26 August 1967) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player. He currently serve ...
(2010–2011)
*
Páll Guðlaugsson
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(2012–2013)
*
Eyðun Klakstein (2013–2014)
*
Mikkjal Thomassen
Mikkjal Thomassen (born 12 January 1976) is a Faroese football manager and former footballer that played 13 times for the Faroe Islands national football team.
Playing career
He played for the clubs B36 Tórshavn, HB Tórshavn and EB/Streymu ...
(2014–2022)
*
Magne Hoseth
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(2022–)
Honours
*
Faroe Islands Premier League
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** ''Winners (20):''
1942
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...
,
1945
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat.
Events
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Januar ...
,
1952,
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
,
1954
Events
January
* January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany.
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
,
1956,
1957
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,
1958,
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 ...
,
1966,
1967,
1968,
1969,
1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
,
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
,
1991
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,
1999
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,
2019
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,
2021
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,
2022
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** Runners-up (13):
1947
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Events
January
* January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in ...
,
1951
Events
January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the United ...
,
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
,
1962,
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...
,
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
Ja ...
,
1973,
1974
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,
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
,
1996
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,
1998,
2016
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,
2017
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*
Faroe Islands Cup
The Faroe Islands Cup (, literally the Prime Minister Cup) is the main football cup competition in the Faroe Islands. The first edition was played in 1955.
History The HB–TB decade
The first decade of the competition was marked by the alternanc ...
** ''Winners (6):'' 1966, 1967, 1990, 1994, 1999,
2016
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** ''Finalists (10):'' 1955, 1957, 1973, 1976, 1979, 1992, 1998, 2001,
2006
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, 2022
*
Faroe Islands Super Cup
The Faroe Islands Super Cup (in Faroese: ''Stórsteypadystur'', or simply ''Stórsteypið'') is a football competition contested between the Faroe Islands Premier League champions and the winners of the Faroe Islands Cup from the previous season ...
** ''Winners (2):'' 2020, 2022
** ''Runners-up (1):'' 2017
European record
Overview
Matches
;Notes
* PR: Preliminary round
* QR: Qualifying round
* 1QR: First qualifying round
* 2QR: Second qualifying round
* 3QR: Third qualifying round
* PO: Playoff round
See also
*
KÍ Klaksvík (women)
*
List of football clubs in the Faroe Islands
References
External links
HomepageOfficial website of KÍ Klaksvík
HomepageOfficial KÍ supporter club
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Association football clubs established in 1904
1904 establishments in the Faroe Islands
Sport in Klaksvík
KÍ Klaksvík