List of football clubs in the Faroe Islands
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Football clubs in the Faroe Islands

There are 18 clubs at the moment, competing in 4 different leagues in the Faroes: * AB * B36 * B68 * B71 *
EB/Streymur EB/Streymur is a Faroe Islands, Faroese semi-professional association football, football club based in Streymnes and Eiði. The club was founded in 1993, as result of the merger between Eiðis Bóltfelag, EB and Ítróttarfelagið Streymur, Strey ...
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FC Hoyvík FC Hoyvík was a Faroese football club, which merged with FF Giza in 2012. The new club was called Giza Hoyvík and later changed its name to FC Hoyvík. This incarnation of FC Hoyvík was previously named ÍF Fram Tórshavn (Tórshavn Forwa ...
(second incarnation; established in 2012) *
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 ...
* HB * ÍF * * MB * NSÍ * Royn *
Skála Skála (reclaimed its original name ''Skála'' as opposed to incorrect ''Skáli'' in 2011;Landverk
* TB *
Undrið FF Undrið FF is a Faroe Islands, Faroese Football (soccer), football team from the Faroese capital (political), capital Tórshavn. The team also plays at the Hoyvíkvøllur. The club was founded 18 January 2006, under the name ''Undrið FF''. This ...
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07 Vestur 07 Vestur is a Faroese football club, which was founded in 2007. It is located in Sandavágur and Sørvágur on Vágar island. History The club was founded 18 December 1993 as FS Vágar. It was a merger of Vágar island teams MB Miðvágur an ...
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Víkingur Gøta Víkingur is a semi-professional association football, football club in the Faroe Islands. The club was founded in 2008 after the merger of GÍ Gøta and Leirvík ÍF. The club is based in Leirvík, while the Serpugerði Stadium, stadium is in No ...


Dissolved clubs

This is the list of clubs that are either no longer in existence, changed their name or have merged with another club. There are 15 clubs on this list: * GÍ Gøta * LÍF Leirvik *
FC Hoyvík FC Hoyvík was a Faroese football club, which merged with FF Giza in 2012. The new club was called Giza Hoyvík and later changed its name to FC Hoyvík. This incarnation of FC Hoyvík was previously named ÍF Fram Tórshavn (Tórshavn Forwa ...
(first incarnation; merged with FF Giza in 2012 to form Giza/Hoyvík, known as ÍF Fram Tórshavn from 1975 to 2008) *
FF Giza Fótbóltsfelagið Giza, commonly known as FF Giza, was a Faroese football club from Tórshavn. History The club was founded in 2008 by some friends, who played for another club called NÍF (Nólsoyar Ítróttarfelag, founded in 1968) at the t ...
(known as NÍF Nólsoy from 1968 to 2010) * EB Eiði * Kaldbaks Bóltfelag *
SÍ Sumba Sumbiar Ítróttarfelag, commonly known as just Sumba, was a Faroese football club based in Sumba. In 2005 it merged with VB Vágur to form VB/Sumba, later renamed FC Suðuroy. History Founded in 1940, the club spent the majority of its exist ...
* Skansin Tórshavn * Bóltfelagið Đriv * Stranda Bóltfelag * Streymur Hvalvik * Æsir Vestmanna * FS Vágar *
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 ...
* VB/Sumba


Other

This is the list of clubs that no longer operate in adult football, but participate at youth levels. * SÍ Sørvágur *
SÍF Sandavágur SÍF Sandavágur is a Faroese Football club based in Sandavágur on the island of Vágar. History SÍF Sandavágur was founded in 1906; although the club is one of oldest in the Faroe Islands, SÍF only played in the top division (now Betri ...


Notes

All clubs in the Faroe Islands have second and third teams, that are competing in lower divisions of the Faroese football pyramid.


External links


List of football stadiums on the Faroe Islands - Nordic Stadiums
{{List of football clubs in Europe Faroe
Football clubs A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to play in a match against an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an all- ...
Football clubs in the Faroe Islands
Football clubs A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to play in a match against an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an all- ...