Sumbiar Ítróttarfelag, commonly known as just Sumba, was a
Faroese football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
club based in
Sumba
Sumba ( id, Pulau Sumba) is an island in eastern Indonesia. It is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands and is in the province of East Nusa Tenggara. Sumba has an area of , and the population was 779,049 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as a ...
. In 2005 it merged with
VB Vágur
VB often refers to volleyball, a team sport.
VB, Vb, and variants may refer to:
Places
* Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (ISO code VB), Italy
* Vero Beach, a city in Florida, USA
* Virginia Beach, a city in Virginia, USA
Companies and organiza ...
to form VB/Sumba, later renamed
FC Suðuroy
FC Suðuroy is a Faroese football club which was founded in January 2010 and consists currently of the former clubs VB (founded in 1905) and Sumba (founded in 1949), which merged in 2005 to form VB/Sumba. FC Suðuroy's first team in the men's ch ...
.
History
Founded in 1940, the club spent the majority of its existence in the lower tiers of Faroese football, winning the
2. deild
2. deild is the third tier league of football in the Faroe Islands. It was founded in 1976 and is organized by the Faroe Islands Football Association. It was originally called ''3. deild'' but became ''2. deild'' after a reorganization of the Fa ...
in 1982 and the
1. deild
1. deild is the second tier league of football in the Faroe Islands. It was founded in 1943. The league is organised by the Faroe Islands Football Association. It was originally the top level of Faroe Islands football but was replaced by the Faro ...
in 1997. In 1995 the club merged with
VB Vágur
VB often refers to volleyball, a team sport.
VB, Vb, and variants may refer to:
Places
* Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (ISO code VB), Italy
* Vero Beach, a city in Florida, USA
* Virginia Beach, a city in Virginia, USA
Companies and organiza ...
for the first time, forming Sumba/VB, but the merger lasted only one season.
In 2005 the club merged again with
VB Vágur
VB often refers to volleyball, a team sport.
VB, Vb, and variants may refer to:
Places
* Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (ISO code VB), Italy
* Vero Beach, a city in Florida, USA
* Virginia Beach, a city in Virginia, USA
Companies and organiza ...
, this time to form VB/Sumba, which was renamed in 2010 to
FC Suðuroy
FC Suðuroy is a Faroese football club which was founded in January 2010 and consists currently of the former clubs VB (founded in 1905) and Sumba (founded in 1949), which merged in 2005 to form VB/Sumba. FC Suðuroy's first team in the men's ch ...
.
Honours
*
1. deild
1. deild is the second tier league of football in the Faroe Islands. It was founded in 1943. The league is organised by the Faroe Islands Football Association. It was originally the top level of Faroe Islands football but was replaced by the Faro ...
**Champions: 1997
**Runners-up: 1990
*
2. deild
2. deild is the third tier league of football in the Faroe Islands. It was founded in 1976 and is organized by the Faroe Islands Football Association. It was originally called ''3. deild'' but became ''2. deild'' after a reorganization of the Fa ...
**Champions: 1982
References
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Association football clubs established in 1940
Defunct football clubs in the Faroe Islands