Skautafélagið Björninn, also known as Björninn for short, is an Icelandic sports club, founded in 1990 and based in

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. It began as a skating club that fielded

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teams and included

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and

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programs; it eventually added

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. On 28 September 2018, the club's ice skating departments merged into

Ungmennafélagið Fjölnir Ungmennafélagið Fjölnir, commonly known as Fjölnir, is a multi-sport club from Iceland. The club is located in Grafarvogur, Reykjavík. The club was founded in 1988 under the original name ; however, because another team already had the abbr ...

, which overtook all of the department's assets and debts.

Ice hockey

Men's ice hockey

History

The clubs men's ice hockey team played in the

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from the 1991–92 season until 2018. It won the national championship in 2012 after beating

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3–1 in the best-of-five finals series. In the early 1990s, Björninn was the first team to invite American service members from nearby

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to play on their team. At the time, each team in the Icelandic League was allowed to put a maximum of 3 non-Icelandic players on their rosters. In 1994, Petty Officer Steve Mitchell, who also played for Björninn, started the first American military team in Iceland, the NATO North Stars. The team shared practice time with Björninn and played several teams in the Icelandic League in exhibitions.

Achievements

* Icelandic champion (1): 2012

Season-by-season record

''Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime Wins, OTL = Overtime Losses, L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points'' ''This table includes results from the last five years only.''

Women's ice hockey

History

The clubs women's ice hockey team won the national championship in 2006.

Achievements

* Icelandic champion (1): 2006

Figure Skating

Single Skating

History

The main activity of the figure skating department was singles skating, starting from the Learn to Skate Program up to competitive levels.

Synchronized skating

History

Björninn had two active teams of synchronized skating, Frostrósir and Ísbirnir.

Football

Men's football

Björninn first fielded a men's football team during the 2010 season in the Icelandic Cup and the 3. deild karla where it served as a

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for

. In 2019, Björninn finished first in group A of the

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. It was knocked out of the playoffs the same year by

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on a 1-4 aggregate score.

References

External links

Official site
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