The Valur women's football team, commonly known as Valur, is the

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department of the Valur

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. It is based in

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, and currently plays in the Besta deild kvenna, the top-tier women's football league in Iceland. The team plays its home games at

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located in

. The team's colors are red and white. Valur has won the Icelandic championship 11 times and the

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13 times.

Recent history

In 2017, the team hired

Pétur Pétursson Guðlaugur "Pétur" Pétursson (born 27 June 1959 in Akranes) is a retired Icelandic footballer who played as a forward. Club career Pétur made his professional debut at ÍA and also played for Feyenoord Rotterdam, RSC Anderlecht (35), Roy ...

as head coach. In September 2019, Valur won the national championship for the eleventh time in its history, and first time since 2010.

Titles

* Besta deild kvenna: ** Winners (14): 1978, 1986, 1988, 1989, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,

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, 2022, 2023 * Cup Champions: 15 :*1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2022, 2024 * Super Cup Champions: 9 :*2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2018, 2019, 2022 * Icelandic Women's League Cup: 5 :*2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2017

Current squad

* ''As of 4 July 2022''

References

External links

Official websiteTeam Profile
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