Faroese national football team

Faroe Islands
Føroyar
Færøerne

Association	Fótbóltssamband Føroya
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	adidas
Head coach	Pætur Clementsen
Assistant coach	John Petersen
captain	[[ Olga Kristina Hansen ]]
Record scorer	Rannvá Andreasen (26)
Record player	Rannvá Andreasen and Olga Kristina Hansen (55 each)
Home stadium	Tórsvøllur
FIFA code	FRO
FIFA rank	86th (1259 points) (as of August 14, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
73 games 22 wins 9 draws 42 losses
statistics
First international match Iceland 6-0 Faroe Islands ( Kópavogur , Iceland ; June 25, 1986 )
Biggest win Andorra 0-8 Faroe Islands ( Hamrun , Malta ; April 6, 2015 )
Biggest defeat Faroe Islands 0:13 Norway ( Tórshavn ; October 8, 2019 )
(As of March 9, 2020 )

The Faroese national football team represents the Faroe Islands football association in international women's football . In addition to the A-team, there is currently an U-19 and U-17 selection . Most of the players come from the record champions KÍ Klaksvík .

history

The team played their first two games in Iceland in June 1986 against the Icelandic women's national football team , which they lost 6-0 and 2-0.

After the FSF joined FIFA in 1988 and the men played official matches in the same year, the women did not play competitive games until 1995 in qualifying for the 1997 European Championship . After that, it was eight years before the next meetings with other official national teams. Games have been played regularly since 2004. However, the last official home game was played in 2004, after which the team only played away or on neutral courts. Only in the qualification for the 2015 World Cup were home games played again in April.

In the qualification for the World Cup was waived by 2011. The greatest sporting success was the victories of the women's football tournament at the Island Games in 2001, 2003 and 2005.

The Faroese women are currently 69th in the FIFA world rankings and 38th in the UEFA rankings for Europe (as of September 1, 2017). The best place was the 60th place in June 2009. In the pre-qualification for the EM 2013 , the team took the last place in the group at the tournament in Malta after defeats against Armenia and Georgia , but were able to defeat the hosts Malta 2-0.

In the qualification for the 2015 World Cup, the team had to go to the pre-qualification and in the games in April 2013 at the tournament in Lithuania reached a 3: 3 against Montenegro , a 1: 0 against the hosts Lithuania and a 2: 1 against Georgia and qualified thus for the actual qualification, which began in autumn 2013. There the team met Sweden and Poland for the first time in autumn 2013 . In April 2014 the first game against Northern Ireland took place in this context . The game ended goalless. Other opponents were Scotland and Bosnia and Herzegovina , against whom the Faroe Islands had previously played. The Faroese women finished the qualification with two points as the group bottom.

In the pre-qualification for the 2017 European Championship , the Faroe Islands finished second with Georgia and Malta, as the direct comparison against Georgia was lost 2-0. The games against Malta and Andorra were won 4-2 and 8-0 respectively. In qualifying for the 2019 World Cup , the Faroese met Luxembourg , Montenegro and Turkey in the pre-qualification as hosts of a mini-tournament in April 2017 and qualified for the main qualification. There are Germany , Iceland , the Czech Republic and Slovenia the opponents.

Tournament balance sheet

World Championship

1991  : did not participate 1995  : did not participate 1999  : did not participate 2003  : did not participate

2007  : did not participate 2011  : did not participate 2015  : not qualified 2019  : not qualified

European Championship

1984  : did not participate 1987  : did not participate 1989  : did not participate 1991  : did not participate 1993  : did not participate 1995  : did not participate

1997  : not qualified 2001  : did not participate 2005  : not participated 2009  : not qualified 2013  : not qualified 2017  : not qualified

Olympic games

1996  : did not participate 2000  : did not participate 2004  : did not participate 2008  : did not participate

2012  : did not participate 2016  : not qualified 2020  : not qualified

Algarve Cup

The national team took part once in the Algarve Cup , playing in Group C, in which the weaker teams initially compete against each other and finished last in both the group and the final ranking.

1994 to 2009 : did not participate / invited 2010 : 12th place 2011 to 2020 : not participated / invited

Official

Trainer

So far the national team has been trained by five different people.

• 1995–1996: Páll Guðlaugsson 
• 2004–2011: Álvur Hansen
• 2012: Rúni Nolsøe
• 2013–2015: Jón Pauli Olsen
• since 2016: Pætur Clementsen

Assistant coach

The following assistant coaches have assisted in previous games.

• 1995: Álvur Hansen
• 1995: Páll á Reynatúgvu
• 2004–2005: Jón Harald Poulsen
• 2005–2011: Jacob Thomsen
• 2012: Jón Pauli Olsen
• 2013: Ingun Hansen
• 2013–2014: Aleksandar Đorđević 
• 2016: Jan Laursen & John Petersen 
• since 2017: John Petersen

Record players

After missions

Status: end of 2019

rank	Surname	Calls	Gates	Period
01.	Rannvá Biskopstø Andreasen	55	26th	2004-2018
0	Olga Kristina Hansen	55	05	2006–0000
03.	Heidi Sevdal	53	21st	2006–0000
04th	Malena Josephsen	41	10	2004-2015
05.	Ansy Sevdal	39	00	2010–0000
06th	Randi Wardum	38	00	2004-2014
07th	Eyðvør Klakstein	34	04th	2012–0000
08th.	Fríðrún Olsen	31	02	2008-2015
09.	Lív Arge	29	02	2012–0000
10.	Ásla Johannessen	22nd	00	2014–0000
11.	Bára Skaale Klakstein	20th	00	1996-2013
	Milja R. Simonsen	20th	04th	2015-2018

The youngest player used was Lív Arge at 15 years and 8 months.

After goals

Only multiple goalscorers are listed.

Status: end of 2019

rank	Surname	Gates	Calls	Period
01.	Rannvá Biskopstø Andreasen	26th	55	2004-2018
02.	Heidi Sevdal	21st	53	2006–0000
03.	Malena Josephsen	10	41	2004-2015
04th	Olga Kristina Hansen	05	55	2006–0000
05.	Milja Simonsen	04th	20th	2015-2018
	Eyðvør Klakstein	04th	34	2012-0000
07th	Vivian Bjartalíð	03	05	2004-2007
	Mona Breckman	03	12	2008-2011
09.	Elin Kathrina Thomsen	02	08th	2005-2008
	Íðunn Magnussen	02	14th	2012-2015
	Birita B. Nielsen	02	08th	2017–0000
	Fríðrún Olsen	02	31	2008-2015
	Lív Arge	02	29	2012–0000

Another seven players scored one goal each. The youngest goalscorer is Mona Breckman at 17 years and 2 months.

International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams

(Results always from a Faroese point of view)

The Faroese met Germany for the first time in the qualification for the 2019 World Cup, which began in autumn 2017 :

1. October 24, 2017 in Großaspach 0:11 (0: 6) (World Cup qualification)
2. 4 September 2018 in Tórshavn 0: 8 (0: 3) (World Cup qualification)

• International matches against Austria

1. February 26, 2010 in Lagos 0: 3 (0: 2) ( Algarve Cup )
2. March 3, 2010 in Silves 0: 6 (0: 0) (Algarve Cup)

• International matches against Luxembourg

1. May 15, 2008 in Junglinster 4: 2 (1: 0) (friendly game)
2. October 27, 2008 in Marijampolė 6: 2 (3: 1) (friendly match)
3. November 28, 2012 in Niederkorn 6: 0 (4: 0) (Friendly Match)
4. November 4, 2016 in Itzig 1: 2 (friendly game)
5. November 6, 2016 in Consdorf 1: 1 (friendly game)
6. April 6, 2017 in Tórshavn 5: 1 (World Cup pre-qualification)

See also

• Football in the Faroe Islands
• List of international matches for the Faroese national football team

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Women's world rankings. In: fifa.com. FIFA , August 14, 2020, accessed on August 14, 2020 (teams without a place and points are provisional because no more than five games have been played or the teams have been inactive for more than 18 months). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kvinnur A: Landsliðsleikarar 1995-2019 (Faroese)

Web links

• fsf.fo - Homepage of the FSF (Faroese and English, current information and pictures)
• Photo and squad of the national team
• Faroe Islands on the FIFA website