Tupilakken 41

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Tupilakken 41 is a Greenlandic football club from Aasiaat .

history

Tupilakken 41, also T-41 Aasiaat or earlier T-41 Qaanaaq , was founded in 1941 in the village of Qaanaaq on the Northwest coast of Greenland . The namesake Tupilaq or Tupilak is a mythical Greenlandic figure.

In 1971 Tupilakken 41 won the Greenland Football Championship . With a latitude of 77 ° 28 'N, Qaanaaq is the northernmost club that has ever won a national championship. In the following year, the team was able to win the runner-up.

The team later moved with its main players to the larger (and more southerly) city of Aasiaat, from where they could finish third in the championship in 1991 and 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Greenlandic football champions on rsssf.com