Knattspyrnusamband Íslands

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Knattspyrnusamband Íslands
Fed islande.svg
founding 1947
FIFA accession 1947
UEFA accession 1954
president Geir Þorsteinsson
National teams A men , A women
Homepage www.ksi.is

The Knattspyrnusamband Íslands ( KSÍ ) is the Icelandic football association . He is based in Reykjavík .

KSÍ is responsible for the organization of football in Iceland and is therefore responsible, among other things, for the Icelandic national football team . He is also the organizer of the professional leagues Pepsideild (men) and Pepsideild kvenna (women) and the Bikar Karla cup competition . The football association has 80 clubs.

The Icelandic Football Association was founded on March 26, 1947 and joined FIFA that same year . In 1954 he joined UEFA . The greatest success so far is the quarter-finals of the 2016 European Championship in France and participation in the 2018 World Cup in Russia .

UEFA five-year ranking

Placement in the UEFA five-year ranking ( previous year's ranking in brackets ). The abbreviations CL and EL after the country coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2019/20 season of the Champions League and the Europa League .

Status: end of the European Cup season 2018/19

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Facts from the Island of Glaciers and Geysers: More tremors than impulses. tagesschau.de , July 3, 2016, accessed on July 3, 2016 .
  2. UEFA rankings for club competitions. In: UEFA. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .