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This article is about the highest men's football league in Iceland. For the corresponding competition for women, see Pepsideild kvenna .

Pepsi picture
Association	Knattspyrnusamband Íslands
First edition	1912
hierarchy	1st League
Teams	12
master	KR Reykjavik (27)
Record champions	KR Reykjavik (27)
Current season	2020
Website	www.ksi.is
Qualification for	Champions League Europa League
↓ 1. deild karla (II)

Pepsideild is the highest Icelandic football professional league for men, named after the name-sponsoring beverage manufacturer Pepsi . The championship was first held in 1912 under the name Meistaraflokkur and is organized by the KSI , the Icelandic Football Association. The Icelandic champions will be determined from among the twelve participating clubs and the starting places for the European Cup competitions will be determined .

The season is limited to spring and summer due to the severe climate in Iceland.

Name history

The highest Icelandic football league has changed its name repeatedly in the past. While the first name change is due to the fact that there was a second division from 1955 , all other changes are due to changing name sponsors.

1912 - 1954 : Meistaraflokkur 1955 - 1991 : 1st deild 1992 : 000000Samskipadeild 1993 : 000000Getraunadeild 1994 : 000000Trópídeild

1995 - 1997 : Sjóvá-Almennra deild 1998 - 2000 : Landssímadeild 2001 - 2002 : Símadeild 1 2003 - 2008 : Landsbankadeild since 2009 : Pepsideild000

¹ Here the name sponsor did not change, but the sponsor himself changed his name.

Logos

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  Landssímadeild
  1998 - 2000

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  Símadeild
  2001 - 2002

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  Landsbankadeild
  2003 - 2008

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  Pepsideild
  since 2009

Title holder

The following list shows all the winners of the Icelandic football championships since their inception in 1912 . Fram Reykjavík was the only participating team in both 1913 and 1914 , and therefore won the title without a fight in those two years.

Unlike in most European leagues, the championships were not interrupted during the world wars.

1912: KR Reykjavík 1913: Fram Reykjavík 1914: Fram Reykjavík 1915: Fram Reykjavík 1916: Fram Reykjavík 1917: Fram Reykjavík 1918: Fram Reykjavík 1919: KR Reykjavík 1920: Víkingur Reykjavík 1921: Fram Reykjavík 1922: Fram Reykjavík 1923: Fram Reykjavík 1924: Víkingur Reykjavík 1925: Fram Reykjavík 1926: KR Reykjavík 1927: KR Reykjavík 1928: KR Reykjavík 1929: KR Reykjavík 1930: Valur Reykjavík 1931: KR Reykjavík 1932: KR Reykjavík 1933: Valur Reykjavík 1934: KR Reykjavík 1935: Valur Reykjavík 1936: Valur Reykjavík 1937: Valur Reykjavík 1938: Valur Reykjavík 1939: Fram Reykjavík

1940: Valur Reykjavík 1941: KR Reykjavík 1942: Valur Reykjavík 1943: Valur Reykjavík 1944: Valur Reykjavík 1945: Valur Reykjavík 1946: Fram Reykjavík 1947: Fram Reykjavík 1948: KR Reykjavík 1949: KR Reykjavík 1950: KR Reykjavík 1951: ÍA Akranes 1952: KR Reykjavík 1953: ÍA Akranes 1954: ÍA Akranes 1955: KR Reykjavík 1956: Valur Reykjavík 1957: ÍA Akranes 1958: ÍA Akranes 1959: KR Reykjavík 1960: ÍA Akranes 1961: KR Reykjavík 1962: Fram Reykjavík 1963: KR Reykjavík 1964: Keflavík ÍF 1965: KR Reykjavík 1966: Valur Reykjavík 1967: Valur Reykjavík

1968: KR Reykjavík 1969: Keflavík ÍF 1970: ÍA Akranes 1971: Keflavík ÍF 1972: Fram Reykjavík 1973: Keflavík ÍF 1974: ÍA Akranes 1975: ÍA Akranes 1976: Valur Reykjavík 1977: ÍA Akranes 1978: Valur Reykjavík 1979: ÍBV Vestmannaeyja 1980: Valur Reykjavík 1981: Víkingur Reykjavík 1982: Víkingur Reykjavík 1983: ÍA Akranes 1984: ÍA Akranes 1985: Valur Reykjavík 1986: Fram Reykjavík 1987: Valur Reykjavík 1988: Fram Reykjavík 1989: KA Akureyri 1990: Fram Reykjavík 1991: Víkingur Reykjavík 1992: ÍA Akranes 1993: ÍA Akranes 1994: ÍA Akranes 1995: ÍA Akranes

1996: ÍA Akranes 1997: ÍBV Vestmannaeyja 1998: ÍBV Vestmannaeyja 1999: KR Reykjavík 2000: KR Reykjavík 2001: ÍA Akranes 2002: KR Reykjavík 2003: KR Reykjavík 2004: FH Hafnarfjörður 2005: FH Hafnarfjörður 2006: FH Hafnarfjörður 2007: Valur Reykjavík 2008: FH Hafnarfjörður 2009: FH Hafnarfjörður 2010: Breiðablik Kópavogur 2011: KR Reykjavík 2012: FH Hafnarfjörður 2013: KR Reykjavík 2014: UMF Stjarnan 2015: FH Hafnarfjörður 2016: FH Hafnarfjörður 2017: Valur Reykjavík 2018: Valur Reykjavík 2019: KR Reykjavík

Most successful teams

So far, eleven teams have won the championship at least once. In the last twenty years, FH Hafnarfjörður (Masters 2004−2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2016) and KR Reykjavík (Masters 2000, 2002, 2003, 2011, 2013 and 2019) have prevailed.

society		title	year
	KR Reykjavík	27	1912 , 1919 , 1926 , 1927 , 1928 , 1929 , 1931 , 1932 , 1934 , 1941 , 1948 , 1949 , 1950 , 1952 , 1955 , 1959 , 1961 , 1963 , 1965 , 1968 , 1999 , 2000 , 2002 , 2003 , 2011 , 2013 , 2019
	Valur Reykjavík	22nd	1930 , 1933 , 1935 , 1936 , 1937 , 1938 , 1940 , 1942 , 1943 , 1944 , 1945 , 1956 , 1966 , 1967 , 1976 , 1978 , 1980 , 1985 , 1987 , 2007 , 2017 , 2018
	ÍA Akranes	18th	1951 , 1953 , 1954 , 1957 , 1958 , 1960 , 1970 , 1974 , 1975 , 1977 , 1983 , 1984 , 1992 , 1993 , 1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 2001
	Fram Reykjavík	18th	1913 , 1914 , 1915 , 1916 , 1917 , 1918 , 1921 , 1922 , 1923 , 1925 , 1939 , 1946 , 1947 , 1962 , 1972 , 1986 , 1988 , 1990
	FH Hafnarfjörður	8th	2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2008 , 2009 , 2012 , 2015 , 2016
	Víkingur Reykjavík	5	1920 , 1924 , 1981 , 1982 , 1991
	Keflavík ÍF	4th	1964 , 1969 , 1971 , 1973
	ÍBV Vestmannaeyja	3	1979 , 1997 , 1998
	KA Akureyri	1	1989
	Breiðablik Kópavogur	1	2010
	UMF Stjarnan	1	2014

Record champions

The current record champion with 27 championships won is KR Reykjavík. The following list shows the development of the reigning record champions.

• 1912 00000KR Reykjavík (1)
• 1913 00000Fram Reykjavík and KR Reykjavík (1 each)
• 1914−1949 Fram Reykjavík (2−13)
• 1950−1951 Fram Reykjavík and KR Reykjavík (13 each)
• 1952− 0000KR Reykjavík (14−27)

Eternal list of participants

The following table gives an overview of all former participants of the Pepsideild, and the number of years they have competed in the highest league. 2019 season participants are shown in bold . The premier seasons refer to the first appearance in the league, the number on the playing times to the regularly completed seasons (if a team left the competition during the playing time, this was not counted).

society Years first season last season KR Reykjavík 105 1912 2019 Valur Reykjavík 99 1915 2019 Fram Reykjavík 93 1912 2014 Víkingur Reykjavík 68 1918 2019 ÍA Akranes 65 1946 2019 Keflavík ÍF 52 1958 2018 ÍBV Vestmannaeyja 51 1912 2 2019 FH Hafnarfjörður 38 1975 2019 Breiðablik Kópavogur 34 1969 2019 ÍF Fylkir Reykjavík 22nd 1989 2019 ÍB Akureyri 20th 1932 1974 Þróttur Reykjavík 19th 1953 2016 UMF Grindavík 20th 1995 2019 Þór Akureyri 17th 1977 2014

society Years first season last season KA Akureyri 17th 1929 2019 UMF Stjarnan 17th 1994 2019 KS Fjallabyggðar 7th 1988 2000 Fjölnir Reykjavík 7th 2008 2018 Víðir Gardur 4th 1985 1991 BÍ / Bolungarvík 3 1962 1983 HK Kópavogs 2 2007 2008 Völsungur Húsavík 2 1987 1988 UMF Selfoss 2 2010 2012 Haukar Hafnarfjörður 2 1979 2010 UMF Víkingur 3 2013 2017 UMF Skallagrímur 1 1997 1997 Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur 1 1944 2nd 1998 Leiknir Reykjavík 1 2015 2015

Status: 2019 season

² The team retired from the competition this season before the regular end of the season.

Goal scorers

So far, 17 players have managed to score at least 15 goals in one season, four of which have celebrated this success at least one more time. The table is sorted chronologically. In seasons in italics , the player in question was not the top scorer.

Gates	player	society	Seasons
19th	Pétur Pétursson	ÍA Akranes	1978
	Gudmundur Torfason	Fram Reykjavík	1986
	Þórður Guðjónsson	ÍA Akranes	1993
	Tryggvi Guðmunðsson	ÍB Vestmannaeyja	1997
	Andri Rúnar Bjarnason	UMF Grindavík	2017
17th	Hermann Gunnarsson	Valur Reykjavík	1973
	Patrick Pedersen	Valur Reykjavík	2018
16	Thorolfur Beck	KR Reykjavík	1961
	Ingi Bjorn Albertsson	Valur Reykjavík	1976
	Pétur Pétursson	ÍA Akranes	1977
	Stone trim Johannesson	ÍB Vestmannaeyja	1998
	Tryggvi Guðmunðsson	FH Hafnarfjörður	2005
	Guðmundur Steinarsson	Keflavík ÍF	2008
	Björgolfur Takefusa	KR Reykjavík	2009
15th	Thorolfur Beck	KR Reykjavík	1960
	Ingvar Elisson	ÍA Akranes	1960
	Tomas Palsson	ÍB Vestmannaeyja	1972
	Ingi Bjorn Albertsson	Valur Reykjavík	1977 , 1978
	Matthias Hallgrimsson	Valur Reykjavík	1980
	Arnar Gunnlaugsson	ÍA Akranes	1992 , 1995
	Oli Thor Magnusson	Keflavík ÍF	1993
	Hjörtur Hjartarson	ÍA Akranes	2001
	Garðar Jóhannsson	UMF Stjarnan	2011

spectator

In 2011, 148,337 spectators came to the Pepsideild stadiums, which corresponds to an average of 1,124 fans per game. The match between KR Reykjavík and Fylkir Reykjavík on September 25, 2011 was the most popular with 3,001 spectators, while the fewest fans came to the match between Valur Reykjavík and Þór Akureyri 2010 (376).

Compared to 2010, almost 11,000 fewer visitors came to the stadiums. In 2010, the Pepsideild games were attended by an average of 1207 spectators. Most of the spectators came to the match between KR Reykjavík and FH Hafnarfjörður (3,333) on August 30th, while least of them came to the match between Haukar Hafnarfjörður and Valur Reykjavík (89) on September 25th. This was the lowest number of spectators since September 27, 1997, when only 68 fans saw the match between Valur Reykjavík and UMF Stjarnan. This number also means the absolute minus backdrop since the regular recordings of viewer numbers began in 1985.

Audience numbers have risen sharply since the late 1990s. Between 1985 and 1998, an average of 598 (1996) and 722 (1989) fans passed the stadium gates (with the exception of 1987 when that number was 941). In 1999 the average number of viewers rose to 892, and in 2001 the 1,000 limit was broken for the first time when an average of 1,076 viewers followed the games. Since 2003, the average attendance has consistently been over 1,000.

The record season was 2007: Back then, an average of 1,329 fans passed the stadium gates. The largest number of spectators since 1985 was recorded on September 29, 1996, when 5,801 spectators watched the decisive game for the championship between ÍA Akranes and KR Reykjavík on the final day of the 1996 season. ÍA won the game 4-1 and secured his 17th league title. In general, the highest attendance figures are recorded on the final days of the game, when the crucial championship games take place.

Audience figures 1985 to 2012

year spectator cut Sp. - 1985 67,895 763 90 1 1986 61,294 697 90 2 1987 83,774 941 90 1 1988 62,739 713 90 2 1989 64.094 772 90 7th 1990 53,146 604 90 2 1991 65,240 750 90 3

year spectator cut Sp. - 1992 60,772 675 90 0 1993 68.170 757 90 0 1994 53,881 641 90 6th 1995 53,876 605 90 1 1996 48,473 598 90 9 1997 57.032 641 90 1 1998 64,324 731 90 2

year spectator cut Sp. - 1999 78,459 892 90 2 2000 80.134 900 90 1 2001 96,844 1,076 90 0 2002 89,643 996 90 0 2003 92,250 1,025 90 0 2004 92,376 1,026 90 0 2005 96,848 1,076 90 0

year spectator cut Sp. 2006 98.024 1,089 90 2007 119,644 1,329 90 2008 145,958 1.106 132 2009 135,783 1,029 132 2010 159,270 1,207 132 2011 148,337 1,124 132 2012 136,470 1,034 132

Sp. = Number of games in the respective season; - = number of games for which the audience numbers are missing

The ten most-attended games since 1985

date	Gameday	game	spectator
09/29/1996	18th	ÍA - KR	5,801
09/26/1998	18th	KR - ÍBV	5,400
08/29/1999	15th	KR - ÍBV	5,120
09/15/2002	17th	Fylkir - KR	4,833
09/23/2007	17th	FH - Valur	4,238
09/27/2008	18th	Keflavík - Fram	3,875
08/21/2005	15th	FH - Valur	3,682
08/24/2003	15th	KR - Fylkir	3,673
09/18/1999	18th	KR - Keflavík	3,470
09/11/1999	17th	Víkingur - KR	3,410

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 .

• 37. ( 39 ) Ireland ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 7,450 - CL: 1, EL: 3 
• 38. ( 38 ) Finland ( league , cup - coefficient: 7,275 - CL: 1, EL: 3 
• 39. ( 35 ) Iceland ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 7,250 - CL: 1, EL: 3 
• 40. ( 40 ) Bosnia and Herzegovina ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 7.125 - CL: 1, EL: 3 
• 41. ( 43 ) Lithuania ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 6,750 - CL: 1, EL: 3 

Status: end of the European Cup season 2018/19

See also

• List of the highest national soccer divisions

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Overview of past Icelandic championships , www.ksi.is , accessed on June 8, 2012
2. ^ Iceland - Topscorers , www.rsssf.com , accessed June 8, 2012
3. ↑ Viewers of the Pepsideild 2011 on weltfussball.de
4. ↑ Viewers of the Pepsideild 2010 on weltfussball.de
5. ↑ Match report ÍA Akranes vs. KR Reykjavík on ksi.is
6. ↑ The information on the number of spectators is based on an evaluation of the match reports available at ksi.is with attendance numbers for the years 1985 to 2011.
7. ↑ UEFA rankings for club competitions. In: UEFA. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .