Ungmennafélag Grindavíkur (, ), commonly known as UMFG or Grindavík, is a
multi-sport club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
in
Grindavík
Grindavík () is a fishing town in the Southern Peninsula district of Iceland, not far from Þorbjörn, a tuya (a type of flat-topped, steep-sided volcano).
It is one of the few towns with a harbour on this coast. Most of the inhabitants work ...
,
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 ...
. It has active departments of
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, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
,
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
,
judo
is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyc ...
,
swimming
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...
,
taekwondo
Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...
and
gymnastic
Gymnastics is a group of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, sho ...
.
Basketball
Men's basketball
The Grindavíks men's basketball team has won three national championships, the last one coming in 2013.
Titles
*
Úrvalsdeild karla: 3:
**1995-96, 2011–12, 2012–13
*
Icelandic Cup: 5:
**1995, 1998, 2000, 2006, 2014
Women's basketball
The Grindavíks women's basketball team won its lone national championship in 1997.
Úrvalsdeild kvenna
/ref>
Titles
* Úrvalsdeild kvenna: 1:
**1996-97
* Icelandic Cup: 2:
**2008, 2015
Football
Grindavík men's and women's teams play their home games at Grindavíkurvöllur
Grindavíkurvöllur (, or more precisely 'Grindavík Stadium') is a multi-use stadium in Grindavík, Iceland. It is currently used mostly for football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), ki ...
.
Men's football
Trophies and achievements
* Icelandic League Cup: 1:
**2000
Women's football
References
External links
Official siteEUROBasket: UMF Grindavík basketball team
KKÍ: Grindavík - kki.is
Multi-sport clubs in Iceland
Sport in Southern Peninsula (Iceland)
{{Iceland-footyclub-stub
lt:UMF Grindavík
nl:UMF Grindavík