Icelandic Men's Football League Cup

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Icelandic Men's Football League Cup
Founded1996
Region Iceland
Number of teams24
Current championsValur (2nd title)
Most successful club(s)Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar
(5 titles)
2011 Deildabikar

The Deildabikar, also known as the Icelandic League Cup is a pre-season professional football competition in Iceland. It is also considered the third most important competition in Icelandic football.

The pre-season tournament involves the top 24 clubs in Iceland from the previous season. It generally takes place between February and May. The number of teams in the 2008 edition rose from 16 to 24.

The 24 teams are divided into three pools of eight teams. Each team meets each other one during the pool stage. The final positions of the group are determined after these 7 games are played. The top two of each group automatically gain entry to the next stage in the competition, and the best 2 teams in third place join them in the quarter final round.

From the quarter final round it is a purely knockout competition where ties take place over 1-leg only, if a tie is not decided in the 90 minutes then penalty kicks are taken to decide the game.

Since 2001, two other pre-season tournaments have been arranged in the same format for teams lower down in the Icelandic football league ladder.

Winners

Club # Year(s)
FH 5 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009
KR 4 1998, 2001, 2005, 2010
ÍA 3 1996, 1999, 2003
Valur 2 2008, 2011
Grindavík 1 2000
ÍBV 1 1997

Finals

Year Winner Score Finalist
1996 ÍA 3-1 * Breiðablik
1997 ÍBV 3-2 * Valur
1998 KR 2-2 **(6-5) Valur
1999 ÍA 1-0 Fylkir
2000 Grindavík 4-0 Valur
2001 KR 0-0 **(5-3) FH
2002 FH 2-2 **(4-3) Fylkir
2003 ÍA 1-1 **(4-2) Keflavik
2004 FH 2-1 KR
2005 KR 3-2 Þróttur
2006 FH 3-2 Keflavik
2007 FH 3-2 * Valur
2008 Valur 4-1 Fram
2009 FH 3-0 Breiðablik
2010 KR 2-1 Breiðablik
2011 Valur 3-1 * Fylkir

* - After Extra Time
** - Penalties

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