The Icelandic Men's Football League Cup (Icelandic: Deildarbikar karla), also known as the Lengjubikar karla for sponsorship reasons, is a pre-season professional
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 ...
competition in
Iceland. It is considered the third most important competition in Icelandic football.
The pre-season tournament involves the top 22 clubs in Iceland from the previous season and the two clubs promoted from
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 ...
, for a total of the 24 teams that will comprise the top two divisions in Iceland the following season. It generally takes place between February and May. The number of teams in the 2008 edition rose from 16 to 24.
Format
The 24 teams are divided into four pools of six teams. Each team meets each other once during the pool stage. The final positions of the group are determined after these 5 games are played. The top two of each group automatically gain entry to the next stage in the competition.
From the quarter final round it is a purely knockout competition where ties take place over 1-leg only. If a tie is not decided in 90 minutes, penalty kicks are taken to decide the game.
Since 2001, two other pre-season tournaments have been arranged in the same format for teams lower down in the Icelandic football league ladder.
Winners
Finals
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20090415071050/http://ksi.is/
* http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/ijsleagcuphist.html
IcelandFootball.net- League cup results.
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Iceland
Recurring sporting events established in 1996
1996 establishments in Iceland