Mikkjal Thomassen (born 12 January 1976) is a Faroese football manager and former

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that played 13 times for the

Faroe Islands national football team The Faroe Islands national football team ( fo, Føroyska fótbóltsmanslandsliðið) represents the Faroe Islands in association football and is governed by the Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF). The FSF became a member of FIFA in 198 ...

Playing career

He played for the clubs

B36 Tórshavn B36 Tórshavn ( fo, Bóltfelagið 1936 Tórshavn) is a Faroe Islands, Faroese semi professional Association football, football club based in the capital of Tórshavn, playing in the Faroe Islands Premier League, the top tier of Faroese football. ...

, HB Tórshavn and

EB/Streymur EB/Streymur is a Faroe Islands, Faroese semi-professional association football, football club based in Streymnes and Eiði. The club was founded in 1993, as result of the merger between Eiðis Bóltfelag, EB and Ítróttarfelagið Streymur, Strey ...

. His last international match was a qualifier for the

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at home against

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on 11 August 2008. He was substituted after 37 minutes due to injury, but had the satisfaction of seeing his teammates earning a 1–1 draw.

Managerial career

Thomassen was manager for HB Tórshavn's women's team in 1995, the team won the Faroese championship that season. From 2009 until 2013 he was the manager of

. The club won the Faroese championship in 2011 managed by Mikkjal Thomassen and John Petersen. Thomassen has been the manager of KÍ Klaksvík in the Faroese Premier Division since 2015. During this period he has won the Faroese championship in 2019. The club was runner-up in 2016, 2017. In 2016 he won the

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with KÍ. In 2020 KÍ won the Faroe Islands Super Cup for the first time. On 24 September 2020 under the management of Mikkjal Thomassen, KÍ became the first Faroese club who managed to come to the play-offs in

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, when they won 6-1 on Tórsvøllur in Tórshavn against the Georgian champions

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. It was also the biggest victory for a Faroese club in European tournaments. On 1 November 2022 he was announced as the manager of Norwegian football club

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References

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