The Vestri women's basketball team, commonly known as Vestri, is a

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team based in Ísafjörður, Iceland. It is part of the Vestri multi-sport club.

History

The club was founded in 1965 as ''Körfuknattleiksfélag Ísafjarðar'' (KFÍ). In 1969, KFÍ won the Vesturland's group and was slated to face

Þór Akureyri Íþróttafélagið Þór (, ), commonly known as Þór Akureyri (), or simply Þór or Thór, is a multi-sport club in Akureyri, in the north of Iceland. It features departments in basketball, football, handball and taekwondo. Its main rival is ...

, which won the Norðurland's group, in a game for the national championship. KFÍ forfeited the game as they could not field a team at the date of the game. The team participated in the top-tier Úrvalsdeild kvenna from 1999 to 2002, advancing to the semi-finals in the Úrvalsdeild playoffs in 2001. It made it into the final four of the Icelandic Cup in 2000 and 2001. In 2016 KFÍ merged into

Íþróttafélagið Vestri Íþróttafélagið Vestri (, ), known as Vestri, is an Icelandic multi-sports club based in northern Westfjords. The club was formed in 2016 from the merger of KFÍ The Vestri men's basketball team, commonly known as Vestri, is a basketball te ...

and became its basketball sub-division. After playing in the 2. deild kvenna for the 2018–2019 season, the team returned to the second-tier 1. deild kvenna in June 2020. In July 2021, Dimitris Zacharias was hired as the head coach of the team. In end of November, Zacharias resigned and was replaced by former coach Pétur Már Sigurðsson. In June 2022, the board decided not to register the team for the next season competition.

Trophies and awards

Awards

Úrvalsdeild Women's Foreign Player of the Year 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 ...

* Jessica Gaspar –

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

* Ebony Dickinson –

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

Úrvalsdeild Women's Domestic All-First Team The Women's Domestic All-First Team is an annual Úrvalsdeild 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 ...

*Sólveig Helga Gunnlaugsdóttir –

Úrvalsdeild Women's Young Player of the Year The Women's Young Player of the Year is an annual Úrvalsdeild kvenna (basketball), Úrvalsdeild kvenna honor bestowed on the best young player in the league following every season. All-time award winners The following is a list of the all-time Úr ...

*Sara Pálmadóttir –

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

1. deild kvenna Domestic All-First team * Eva Margrét Kristjánsdóttir – 2015

Notable players

Head coaches

Women's head coaches since 1996:Women's coaches
/ref> *Karl Jónsson 1999–2001 *Krste Seramofski 2001–2002 *Neil Shiran Þórisson 2002–2003 *

Hrafn Kristjánsson Hrafn Kristjánsson is an Icelandic basketball coach and former player. He was named the Úrvalsdeild Coach of the Year in the 2010–11 season, when he won the Icelandic championship with the KR. As a coach he has won the Icelandic Basketbal ...

2003–2004 *Tom Hull 2004–2005 *Pance Ilievski 2010–2011 *

Pétur Már Sigurðsson Pétur Már Sigurðsson (born 15 April 1978) is an Icelanders, Icelandic professional basketball coach and a former player. He is currently the head coach of Skallagrímur men's basketball, Skallagrímur. He is the former head coach of the Úrva ...

2011–2013 *Labrenthia Murdock Pearson 2014–2015 *Helga Salóme Ingimarsdóttir 2018–2019 *

2020–2021 *Dimitris Zacharias 2021 *

2021–2022

References

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External links

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