Vágs Bóltfelag (VB) is a Faroese
handball
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club. It started as a football club, which was founded on 5 June 1905, but later the sport handball became a part of the club. The handball club is based in
Vágur
Vágur meaning ''Bay'' ( da, Våg) is a town on the island of Suðuroy, part of the Faroe Islands
It is situated on the east coast of the island on the Vágsfjørður fjord, and was founded in the fourteenth century. Expansion has meant that the ...
in
Suðuroy
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. They play their home matches in the sports hall,
Vágshøll on Eiðinum in
Vágur
Vágur meaning ''Bay'' ( da, Våg) is a town on the island of Suðuroy, part of the Faroe Islands
It is situated on the east coast of the island on the Vágsfjørður fjord, and was founded in the fourteenth century. Expansion has meant that the ...
. The football club is now known as
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 ...
.
Women's handball
VB was earlier a handball club for men and women. But since the football competition was changed, so it now starts earlier and ends later, it is not possible anymore, or at least very difficult, for the same person to play both handball and football. So now the handball in Vágur is mostly for women and football is mostly for the men, in the best divisions anyway, the men have a team in the second best division. The population is only 1400, there are not enough people to get good teams in both sports for both genders in such a small village. The women's best division was called 1. deild until 2005 when they changed the name for sponsor reasons to ''Sunset kappingin'' or ''Sunsetdeildin''.
Honours
The VB handball team has won the Faroese Championships three times: 1950, 2003 and 2005.
Team
The current squad as of February 2013
Foreign players
Over the last decade it has become normal for Faroese handball clubs as well football clubs, to import foreign players in order to improve the team. This is also the fact regarding VB. In 2004 the Football club signed 22-year-old
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,
Mindaugas Grigalevičius. In 1996
Tomislav Sivić
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Playing career
Between 1988 and 1990, Sivić spent two seasons with Bačka Subotica in the Vojvodina League, the fourth tier of Yugoslav football. He would ...
became player/manager for the football team, when he first came to Faroe Islands. The team was coached by another young foreign player/manager,
Krzysztof Popczyński
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Career Playing career
Born in Kraków, Popczyński played for a number of Polish as well as international clubs durin ...
, from 1998 to 2001. Most of the foreign players who played for VB were from Eastern Europe, as well as some from Denmark, Iceland and Africa. Although like other football clubs in the Faroe Islands, the large majority of players in the squad were Faroese.
In 2010 the Handball team made an agreement with three players from
Lithuania
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In 2011 two players from Serbia
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are playing handball with VB, Na and one player, the goal keeper, comes from Lithuania.
The football club
The VB football team was founded on 5 June 1905. 90 years later, in 1995, the club merged with Sumba
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to form Sumba/VB, although the merger only lasted a single season. 10 years later, in 2005, there was a second merger between VB Vágur and Sumba, and formed VB/Sumba, which later had its name changed 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 ...
. Other divisions of FC Suðuroy play some of their home games in Sumba
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at the á Krossinum Stadium.
Honours
*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 Premi ...
: 1
** 2000
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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 ...
: 1
** 1974
VB in Europe
* 1Q = 1st Qualifying Round
Managers
* Tomislav Sivić
Tomislav Sivić (; born 29 August 1966) is a Serbian football manager and former player.
Playing career
Between 1988 and 1990, Sivić spent two seasons with Bačka Subotica in the Vojvodina League, the fourth tier of Yugoslav football. He would ...
(1996)
* Krzysztof Popczyński
Krzysztof Popczyński (born 8 March 1969) is a Polish football coach and former player. As a player, he played as a midfielder.
Career Playing career
Born in Kraków, Popczyński played for a number of Polish as well as international clubs durin ...
(1998–01)
References
External links
FCSuduroy.com
The current website of FC Suðuroy
HSF.fo
The Faroe Islands Handball Association
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Faroese handball clubs
Association football clubs established in 1905
Defunct football clubs in the Faroe Islands
1905 establishments in the Faroe Islands
Sport in Vágur
VB Vágur