Íþróttafélagið Vestri (, ), known as Vestri, is an Icelandic multi-sports club based in northern

Westfjords The Westfjords or West Fjords (, ) is a large peninsula in northwestern Iceland and an administrative region, the least populous in the country. It lies on the Denmark Strait, facing the east coast of Greenland. It is connected to the rest of I ...

. The club was formed in 2016 from the merger of

KFÍ The Vestri men's basketball team, commonly known as Vestri, is a basketball team based in Ísafjörður, Iceland. The club was founded in 1965 as Körfuknattleiksfélag Ísafjarðar and held that name until it merged with newly founded Íþrótta ...

(basketball), Skellur (volleyball), Sundfélagið Vestri (swim) and BÍ/Bolungarvík (football).

Basketball

Vestri's basketball was founded in 1965 as ''Körfuknattleiksfélag Ísafjarðar'' or ''KFÍ'' for short. Its men's team has played several seasons in the top-tier Úrvalsdeild karla, with their best season coming in 1998–1999 when it finished 3rd and made it to the semi-finals of the playoffs. Its women's team played in the top-tier Úrvalsdeild kvenna from 1999 to 2002, making the playoffs in 2001.

Football

The team was founded in 1986 as the football department of ''Badmintonfélag Ísafjarðar'', or BÍ for short. After the folding of ÍBÍ's football department in 1988 after years of financial difficulties, it became the main football team in Ísafjörður under the name ''Boltafélag Ísafjarðar''. Its women's team played in the top-tier women's league that same year. From 2006 to 2016 the club fielded a joint team with Ungmennafélag Bolungarvíkur, called BÍ/Bolungarvík. In 2016 the club merged into Íþróttafélagið Vestri along with Skellur (Volleyball), Sundfélagið Vestri (Swim) and KFÍ (Basketball), becoming its football department.

Volleyball

Men's volleyball

History

In 2019, the men's team was promoted to the top-tier Mizuno League for the first time in its history. In March 2023, the team advanced to the Icelandic Cup final for the first time.

Titles

*Division I (2): **2017, 2019

Women's volleyball

Titles

*Division II (1): **2015 (as Skellur)Neðri deildirnar klárast hver af annarri
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Footnotes

References

Multi-sport clubs in Iceland Sport in Westfjords {{Iceland-sport-stub