Faroese Football Cup

Løgmanssteypið
Association	FSF
founding	1955
First edition	1955
Teams	16
Game mode	Knockout system
Title holder	HB Tórshavn
Record winner	HB Torshavn (27)
Website	fsf.fo
Qualification for	UEFA Europa League

The Faroese Football Cup ( Faroese Steypakappingin ) is the cup competition for men's football club teams and has been played since 1955. Since 1999 it has been called Løgmanssteypið ("Cup of Løgmaður "). Accordingly, he is awarded by the Prime Minister of the country. The winner is eligible to qualify for the UEFA Europa League .

In addition to the national cup, there are separate cup competitions for young people ( Th. Dam & Co. Steypið ), boys ( Blaðberasteypið ), little boys ( Cadbury steypið ), women from the 1st and 2nd division ( Steypakappingin kvinnur ), girls 14-17 ( Mótasteypið ) and little girls 12–14 ( Niels L. Arge steypið ).

development

When the cup was introduced, participation was initially only made possible for top division clubs . In the first year semi-finals and subsequent finals were played, in the following years, instead of the semi-finals, various elimination games were played in order to determine the two finalists. From 1958 to 1964 KÍ Klaksvík refrained from participating. Two finals were played between 1974 and 1978. From 1976 there was again a fixed semi-final with four teams, since 1978 these encounters have been played back and forth. In 1979, all second and third division teams took part in the cup matches for the first time, and since 1980 the fourth division also took part. Until 1982 this included the A, B, C and D teams of the clubs represented in the respective league, which initially played off the participants for the next round, with the higher-class teams only entering the competition later . Since 1983 only A teams have been allowed to play in the cup.

From 1995 a group stage was held after the preliminary round. From four groups of four teams each qualified for the next round against every other team in the first and second place in each group. In 1998 the number of groups was reduced to three, with the two best third-placed finishers qualifying for the next round in addition to the first and second placed. In 2005, the group phase was abolished again due to the expansion to 27 match days in the first division .

The finals were played on artificial turf from 1979 to 2009 in the Gundadalur Stadium in Tórshavn . The exception was the period from 2000 to 2005, in which the finals in the Tórsvøllur Stadium in Tórshavn were played on natural grass. In 2010 and 2011 the finals took place in the Injektor Arena in Klaksvík , and in 2012 it will be played again in the Tórsvøllur Stadium. In the final, a replay was scheduled until 1996 if it was a draw after 90 minutes (until 1989) or after 30 minutes of extra time . From 2001 to 2005 the final took place on Ólavsøka , the national holiday of the Faroe Islands, and then only once again in 2009.

Current mode

The cup is played in a pure knockout system . With currently 18 participating A-teams from the four Faroese leagues , 14 are directly qualified for the round of 16, including all first and second division teams of the respective season. The remaining third and fourth division teams play the remaining two participants for the round of 16. Here and in all subsequent rounds, there is a wild drawing, i.e. without any seeding list. Lower-class teams do not enjoy automatic home rights in the matches. With the exception of the semi-finals, which are played back and forth and in which the away goals rule is applied, all games are decided in a single game. If there is a tie after 90 minutes, there will be a 30-minute extension. If there is still no decision after that, a penalty shoot-out follows .

The winner is eligible to participate in the 2nd qualifying round for the UEFA Europa League . If they become Faroese champions in the same year , the cup finalists will take part in the first qualifying round instead.

The finals at a glance

year	winner	Result	finalist
01955	HB Tórshavn	5: 2	KÍ Klaksvík
01956	TB Tvøroyri	5: 2	VB Vágur
01957	HB Tórshavn	1-0	KÍ Klaksvík
01958	TB Tvøroyri	5: 3	HB Tórshavn
01959	HB Tórshavn	1-0	B36 Tórshavn
01960	TB Tvøroyri	3-0	HB Tórshavn
01961	TB Tvøroyri	2-0	B36 Tórshavn
01962	HB Tórshavn	2: 1	TB Tvøroyri
01963	HB Tórshavn	7: 1	B36 Tórshavn
01964	HB Tórshavn	3: 3/4: 3 ( ES )	B36 Tórshavn
01965	B36 Tórshavn	3: 2	HB Tórshavn
01966	KÍ Klaksvík	4: 2	HB Tórshavn
01967	KÍ Klaksvík	6: 2	B36 Tórshavn
01968	HB Tórshavn	2: 1	B36 Tórshavn
01969	HB Tórshavn	2-0	B36 Tórshavn
01970	Endgame	Not	carried out 1
01971	HB Tórshavn	9-0	TB Tvøroyri
01972	HB Tórshavn	6: 1	B36 Tórshavn
01973	HB Tórshavn	3: 1	KÍ Klaksvík
01974	VB Vágur	4: 0/3: 5	HB Tórshavn
01975	HB Tórshavn	5: 2/2: 2	ÍF Fuglafjørður
01976	HB Tórshavn	1: 0/3: 0	KÍ Klaksvík
01977	TB Tvøroyri	1: 3/3: 0	VB Vágur
01978	HB Tórshavn	1: 2/2: 1/3: 1 (ES)	TB Tvøroyri
01979	HB Tórshavn	5-0	KÍ Klaksvík
01980	HB Tórshavn	2-0	NSÍ Runavík
01981	HB Tórshavn	5: 1	TB Tvøroyri
01982	HB Tórshavn	2: 1	ÍF Fuglafjørður
01983	GÍ Gøta	5: 1	Royn Hvalba
01984	HB Tórshavn	2-0	GÍ Gøta
01985	GÍ Gøta	4: 2	NSÍ Runavík
01986	NSÍ Runavík	2: 1	LÍF Leirvík
01987	HB Tórshavn	2: 2/3: 0 (ES)	ÍF Fuglafjørður
01988	HB Tórshavn	1-0	NSÍ Runavík
01989	HB Tórshavn	1: 1/2: 0 (ES)	B71 Sandur
01990	KÍ Klaksvík	6: 1	GÍ Gøta
01991	B36 Tórshavn	1-0	HB Tórshavn
01992	HB Tórshavn	1-0	KÍ Klaksvík
01993	B71 Sandur	1: 1 n.V. / 2: 1 (ES)	HB Tórshavn
01994	KÍ Klaksvík	2: 1	B71 Sandur
01995	HB Tórshavn	3: 1	B68 Toftir
01996	GÍ Gøta	2: 2 a.d. / 5: 3 a.d. (ES)	HB Tórshavn
01997	GÍ Gøta	6-0	VB Vágur
01998	HB Tórshavn	2-0	KÍ Klaksvík
01999	KÍ Klaksvík	3: 1	B36 Tórshavn
02000	GÍ Gøta	1-0	HB Tórshavn
02001	B36 Tórshavn	1-0	KÍ Klaksvík
02002	NSÍ Runavík	2: 1	HB Tórshavn
02003	B36 Tórshavn	3: 1 a.d.	GÍ Gøta
02004	HB Tórshavn	3: 1	NSÍ Runavík
02005	GÍ Gøta	4: 1	ÍF Fuglafjørður
02006	B36 Tórshavn	2: 1	KÍ Klaksvík
02007	EB / Streymur	4: 3	HB Tórshavn
02008	EB / Streymur	3: 2	B36 Tórshavn
02009	Víkingur Gøta	3: 2	EB / Streymur
02010	EB / Streymur	1-0	ÍF Fuglafjørður
02011	EB / Streymur	3-0	ÍF Fuglafjørður
02012	Víkingur Gøta	3: 3 n.v. / 5: 4 i. E.	EB / Streymur
02013	Víkingur Gøta	2-0	EB / Streymur
02014	Víkingur Gøta	1-0	HB Tórshavn
02015	Víkingur Gøta	3-0	NSÍ Runavík
02016	KÍ Klaksvík	1: 1 n.V. / 5: 3 i. E.	Víkingur Gøta
02017	NSÍ Runavík	1-0	B36 Tórshavn
02018	B36 Tórshavn	2: 2 n.V. / 5: 4 i. E.	HB Tórshavn
02019	HB Tòrshavn	3: 1	Vikingur Gøta

¹In 1970 HB Tórshavn and KÍ Klaksvík reached the final. However, KÍ refused to play the game in HB's stadium, so in its place the defeated semi-finalist VB Vágur was asked if he wanted to play in the final instead. Since VB also refused, the association decided not to award the trophy.

Ranking list of winners

rank	society	Victories	Year (s)
1	HB Tórshavn	27	1955, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2004, 2019
2	GÍ Gøta	6th	1983, 1985, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2005
	KÍ Klaksvík	6th	1966, 1967, 1990, 1994, 1999, 2016
	B36 Tórshavn	6th	1965, 1991, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2018
5	TB Tvøroyri	5	1956, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1977
	Víkingur Gøta	5	2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
7th	EB / Streymur	4th	2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
8th	NSÍ Runavík	3	1986, 2002, 2017
9	VB Vágur	1	1974
	B71 Sandur	1	1993

Worth mentioning

• From 1984 to 2004, the cup was won either by HB Tórshavn or by the team that HB was able to defeat in the respective year. The only exception here was the year 1994, in which B71 Sandur HB threw out of the competition, but KÍ Klaksvík lost in the final .
• From 1968 to 1973 and from 1978 to 1982 HB Tórshavn was able to win the cup five times in a row.
• So far were with NSÍ Runavík (1980), Royn Hvalba (1983) and ÍF Fuglafjørður (1987) three second division teams in the final, but none of them could win, so that so far only first division teams have been victorious.
• Four teams made it to the cup final at least once, but never won the cup. ÍF Fuglafjørður is the team with the most defeats in no single win, they lost a total of five times in the final.
• In 1971 HB Tórshavn scored the highest final victory against TB Tvøroyri with a 9-0. HB Tórshavn, who defeated fourth division Skansin Tórshavn 22-0 in the group matches in 1995, also had the highest ever win in the cup competition.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Faroe Islands - List of Cup Finals (English)