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Íþróttabandalag Ísafjarðar (, ), commonly known as ÍBÍ, was a sports union in
Ísafjörður Ísafjörður (pronounced , meaning ''ice fjord'', literally ''fjord of ices'') is a town in the northwest of Iceland. The oldest part of Ísafjörður with the town centre is located on a spit of sand, or ''eyri'', in Skutulsfjörður, a fjord ...
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Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...
, best known for its football teams. In 2000, ÍBÍ merged with Héraðssamband Vestur-Ísfirðinga to form Héraðssamband Vestfirðinga.


Football


Men's football

ÍBÍ's men's football team was founded in 1955 and participated in the Icelandic top-tier league in
1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...
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1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...
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1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...
. It folded prior to the 1988 season due to financial difficulties and most of the players transferred over to Boltafélag Ísafjarðar.


Honours

* 1. deild karla: ** Winners (1): 19611 ** ''Runner-up: (1):''
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 ...
1 1 ''Then known as 2. deild karla'' * 2. deild karla: ** Winners (1): 19731 ** ''Runner-up: (1):'' 19691 1 ''Then known as 3. deild karla''


Managers

* Gísli Magnússon 1973 * Gísli Magnússon 1978 * Martin Wilkinson 1983 * Gísli Magnússon 1984–1985 * Jón Oddsson 1986 * Helgi Ragnarsson 1987


Women's football

ÍBÍ's women's team was founded in 1981 and participated in the Football Cup that year. It competed in the Icelandic top-tier league in
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...
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1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...
. It won the second-tier league in 1987 but the club folded just before the 1988 season and most of the players moved to which took its spot in the top-tier league.


Honours

* 1. deild kvenna: **Winners (1): 19871 **''Runner-up (1):'' 19831 1 ''Then known as 2. deild kvenna''


Managers

* Jóhann Torfason 1981 * Þór Albertsson 1982 * Bjarni Jóhannsson 1983 * Rósa Áslaug Valdimarsdóttir 1984 * Jóhann Torfason 1985 * Jón E. Haraldsson 1986–1987


References

{{reflist Football clubs in Iceland Sport in Westfjords