The ÍBV men's football team is the men's

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department of the ÍBV-íþróttafélag (English: ÍBV sports club)

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. It is located in

Vestmannaeyjar Vestmannaeyjar (, sometimes anglicized as Westman Islands) is a municipality and archipelago off the south coast of Iceland. The largest island, Heimaey, has a population of 4,414, most of whom live in the archipelago's main town, Vestmannaeyja ...

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, and currently plays in the

Besta deild karla The Besta deild karla () is a professional association football league in Iceland and the highest level of the Icelandic football league system. The competition was founded in 1912 as the Icelandic Championship. Because of the harsh winters in Ic ...

, the top-tier men's football league in Iceland. The team plays its home games at the

Hásteinsvöllur Hásteinsvöllur (, or more precisely 'Hásteinn Stadium') is a multi-use stadium in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. It is located in the town of Vestmannaeyjar on the island of Heimaey. It is used mostly for football matches, and is the home ground o ...

. It has won the Icelandic championship three times, in 1979, 1997 and 1998.

Achievements

* Icelandic Championships: 3 ::

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

* Icelandic Cups: 5 ::

1968 Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

Icelandic League Cup Icelandic League Cup may refer to: * Icelandic Men's Football League Cup 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 c ...

: 1 ::

Source:

European record

Players

Current squad

Out on loan

Notable players

Players who have played for ÍBV and have more than one international cap for their country. *

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Allan Mørkøre Allan Mørkøre (born 22 November 1971) is a former Faroese professional football midfielder. Now he is a manager for B71 Sandoy, which plays in the men's second best division. He was manager for AB from 2008 to 2010, he replaced Sigfríður ...

* Baldur Bragason * Einar Þór Daníelsson *

Arnljótur Davíðsson Arnljótur Davíðsson (born 3 September 1968) is an Icelandic former footballer who played as a forward. He won three caps for the Iceland national football team The Iceland national football team () represents Iceland in men's internationa ...

Friðrik Friðriksson Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (born 6 October 1964) is an Icelandic former international football goalkeeper. He played club football for Fram Reykjavik, Breiðablik, Fram again, B1909 (Denmark), Þór Akureyri and ÍBV. Friðrik won 26 cap ...

Tryggvi Guðmundsson Tryggvi Guðmundsson (born 30 July 1974) is an Icelandic former professional association football, footballer. He is Iceland's all-time top scorer in the Úrvalsdeild. He is the highest scoring male Icelandic footballer of all time in associati ...

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* Hermann Hreiðarsson *

Ívar Ingimarsson Ívar Ingimarsson (born 20 August 1977) is an Icelandic former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He began his career in Iceland with Valur and ÍBV before moving to England where, after an initial loan spell with Torquay Un ...

Birkir Kristinsson Birkir Kristinsson (born 15 August 1964) is an Icelandic former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Club career He started his career with local Vestmannaeyjar team ÍBV, and also played with Einherji from Vopnafjordur, KA from Akureyri ...

* Guðgeir Leifsson * Sigurvin Ólafsson *

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* Tómas Pálsson *

Ásgeir Sigurvinsson Ásgeir "Sigi" Sigurvinsson (born 8 May 1955 in Vestmannaeyjar) is an Icelandic retired football attacking midfielder and coach. He spent most of his career at Standard Liège and in Germany, amassing Bundesliga totals of 211 games and 39 goal ...

Ólafur Sigurvinsson Ólafur () is a common name in Iceland, derived from the Old Norse Óláfr , meaning "ancestor's relic". According to Icelandic custom, people are generally referred to by first and middle names and patronyms are used if disambiguation is require ...

* Rútur Snorrason * Hlynur Stefánsson *

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* Sigurlás Þorleifsson *

Gunnar Heiðar Þorvaldsson Gunnar Heiðar Þorvaldsson (born 1 April 1982), commonly anglicisation, anglicised as Gunnar Heidar Thorvaldsson, is an Icelandic association football, football manager and former professional footballer who played as a striker (association foo ...

Tómas Ingi Tómasson Tómas Ingi Tómasson (born 7 June 1969) is an Icelandic former football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, f ...

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* Abel Dhaira * Tony Mawejje * Andrew Mwesigwa

Managers

(Aug 1, 2006–Dec 31, 2010) *

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(Jan 1, 2012–Sept 19, 2012) *

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(Sept 20, 2012–Dec 31, 2012) * Hermann Hreiðarsson (Jan 1, 2013–Oct 3, 2013) *

Sigurður Ragnar Eyjólfsson Sigurður "Siggi" Ragnar Eyjólfsson (born 1 December 1973) is an Icelandic football manager and former player who played as a striker. From 2007 until 2013, he served as the head coach of the Iceland women's national team, guiding them to th ...

(2014) *

Jóhannes Harðarson Jóhannes "Joey" Harðarson (born 28 July 1976) is an Icelandic football coach and former player. He was most recently the head coach of Norwegian First Division club Start. Club career Before the 2004 season, he moved to Norwegian club IK S ...

(Jan 1, 2015–June 24, 2015) *

(July 22, 2015–Oct 3, 2015) * Bjarni Jóhannsson (Oct 9, 2015–Aug 19, 2016) *

Kristján Guðmundsson Kristján Guðmundsson (born 1941, Snæfellsnes, Iceland) is a contemporary Icelandic conceptual artist. He started his career as an artist in the 1960s as a member of ''SÚM'' - a group of young artists influenced by then-new currents in concept ...

(Oct 15, 2016–Sept 29, 2018) *

Pedro Hipólito Pedro Manuel da Cunha Hipólito (born 16 September 1978) is a Portuguese football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqual ...

(Sept 29, 2018–June 30, 2019) *

Helgi Sigurðsson Helgi Sigurðsson (born 17 September 1974) is an Icelandic former professional footballer and manager of ÍBV. A forward, he played for clubs in Iceland, Germany, Norway, Greece, and Denmark and represented Iceland at international level. ...

(Oct 1, 2019–)

References

External links

*
IcelandFootball.net
– ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar {{Authority control Football clubs in Iceland Association football clubs established in 1903 1903 establishments in Iceland Íþróttabandalag Vestmannaeyja