The Valur women's football team, commonly known as Valur, is the women's football department of the

Valur Valur may refer to: People * Birkir Valur Jónsson (born 1998), Icelandic football player * Björn Valur Gíslason (born 1959), Icelandic politician * Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson (born 1979), Icelandic handball player * Guðni Valur Guðnason (born ...

multi-sport club A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

. It is based in

Reykjavík Reykjavík ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói bay. Its latitude is 64°08' N, making it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. With a po ...

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

, and currently plays in the Úrvalsdeild kvenna, the top-tier women's football league in Iceland. The team plays it home games at

Hlíðarendi Hlíðarendi () is a famous place in Icelandic historical literature. Gunnar Hámundarson Gunnar Hámundarson () was a 10th-century Icelandic chieftain. He lived in Hlíðarendi in Fljótshlíð and is probably better known as Gunnar of H ...

located in

. The team's colors are red and white. Valur has won the Icelandic championship 11 times and the

Icelandic Women's Cup The Icelandic Women's Football Cup ( is, Bikarkeppni kvenna í knattspyrnu) is the national women's football cup competition in Iceland. The first edition of the cup was played out in 1981. List of finals The list of finals: By team See al ...

13 times.

Recent history

In 2017, the team hired

Pétur Pétursson Guðlaugur ''Pétur'' Pétursson (born 27 June 1959 in Akranes) is a retired Icelandic footballer who was active as a forward. Club career Pétur made his professional debut at ÍA and also played for Feyenoord Rotterdam, RSC Anderlecht (35 ...

as head coach. In September 2019, Valur won the national championship for the eleventh time in its history, and first time since 2010.

Titles

* Icelandic Championships: 13 :*1978, 1986, 1988, 1989, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,

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, 2022 * Cup Champions: 13 :*1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011 * Super Cup Champions: 9 :*2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2018, 2019, 2022 * Icelandic Women's League Cup: 5 :*2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2017

Current squad

* ''As of 4 July 2022

References

External links

Official websiteTeam Profile
at ksi.is {{Úrvalsdeild kvenna (football)

Capital Region (Iceland) Úrvalsdeild Women clubs Valur (club)