Faroe Islands women's national football team

Faroe Islands

Nickname(s)	Kvinnulandsliðið (Women's National Team)
Association	Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF)
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Pætur S. Clementsen
Captain	Rannvá B. Andreasen
Most caps	Rannvá B. Andreasen (43)
Top scorer	Rannvá B. Andreasen (24)
Home stadium	Tórsvøllur
FIFA code	FRO
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	75 5 (26 August 2016)
Highest	60 (June 2009)
Lowest	88 (July-September 2015)
First international
Official Faroe Islands 0–2 Ireland (Toftir, Faroe Islands; September 24, 1995) Unofficial Iceland 6–0 Faroe Islands (Kópavogur, Iceland; June 25, 1986)
Biggest win
Official Faroe Islands 8–0 Andorra (Ħamrun, Malta; 6 April 2015) Unofficial Faroe Islands 16–0 Jersey (Douglas, Isle of Man; July 12, 2001)
Biggest defeat
Faroe Islands 0–9 Belgium (Toftir, Faroe Islands; May 18, 1996) Scotland 9–0 Faroe Islands (Motherwell, Scotland; September 13, 2014)

Faroe Islands national team in 2013

The Faroe Islands women's national football team represents the Faroe Islands in women's association football and is controlled by the Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF), the governing body of all football in the Faroe Islands. The FSF became a member of International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) in 1988 and Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) in 1990. By population it remains the fourth smallest member of UEFA, which encompasses the countries of Europe. The women's team played their first FIFA-sanctioned international match in 1995 and have never advanced to the finals of the FIFA Women's World Cup or UEFA Women's Championship. They took part in the Island Games in 2001, 2003 and 2005 and won all three tournaments, as well as appearing at the 2010 edition of the Algarve Cup. In the Faroe Islands the team is known as the Kvinnulandsliðið. As the Faroe Islands has no national stadium, the women's team have staged their home matches at different grounds throughout the country.

History

The FSF was founded on 13 January 1979^[1] and a women's national league began play in 1985.^[2] The first Faroese women's national team games took place in June 1986, with two defeats to Iceland. The matches, a 6–0 defeat at Kópavogsvöllur and a 2–0 defeat at Akranesvöllur, predate the Faroe Islands' membership of FIFA and UEFA but are listed as full internationals at both FIFA.com and the official website of the Football Association of Iceland (KSÍ).^[3][4]

The Faroe Islands joined FIFA on 2 July 1988^[1] and the male national team played its first official match—a 1–0 defeat against Iceland—on 24 August 1988.^[5] Membership of UEFA followed on 18 April 1990 and the Faroe Islands' male team entered its first major international competition later that year: the qualifying rounds for the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship.^[1]

A women's team was formed to take part in the 1997 UEFA Women's Championship qualification tournament, which began in September 1995. Páll Guðlaugsson was appointed as coach. The Faroe Islands were competing at class B, in a regionalised group alongside Belgium, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The group winners would not qualify for the final tournament but would play-off against a last placed team from A class for promotion to the higher grade.^[6]

The Faroe Islands staged all their home games at the national stadium of the time, Svangaskarð in Toftir. On 24 September 1995 they lost their first ever home match 2–0 to Ireland.^[7] The following month, another 2–0 defeat, to Belgium in Brussels, preceded a 7–1 loss in Scotland where Sólvá Joensen scored the team's first ever goal.^[8] Two days later, on 25 October 1995, the Faroe Islands beat Wales 1–0 at Farrar Road in Bangor to record their first ever victory. Helga Ellingsgaard scored the decisive goal on 35 minutes,^[9] while opposition coach Sue Lopez lamented her team's failure to convert any of their 20 shots at goal.^[10]

The next match was a 3–1 defeat in Dublin, Ireland's third goal coming in the last minute. In 1996 the Faroe Islands finished their campaign with three home games, but lost them all. The first, on 18 May 1996, was a 9–0 defeat to group winners Belgium which remains the Faroe Islands' joint record defeat. Scotland and Wales departed Toftir with 3–0 and 1–0 victories, respectively, as the Faroe Islands finished bottom of the group with three points, having scored three goals and conceded 27.

The FSF scrapped their women's national team after the tournament, as they were unwilling to fund travel to away fixtures. They did enter competitions at youth level, which were not played on a home and away basis but were mini-tournaments staged in a single location to keep costs down.^[11]

When the senior women's national team was relaunched in 2004 after an eight-year hiatus, their first match was a 2–1 friendly defeat to Ireland. Irish coach Noel King named an experimental team which lacked his leading players from Arsenal Ladies.^[12] The game was staged in Klaksvík on 12 October 2004, the day before the nations' senior men's teams met at Lansdowne Road, Dublin.

In the next match, a return friendly with Ireland at the Oscar Traynor Centre in Dublin, Rannvá B. Andreasen put the Faroe Islands ahead after six minutes. Ireland hit back to win 2–1.

The Faroe Islands' first matches back in UEFA competition came in November 2006, at the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 qualifying series. At a preliminary round mini-tournament held in Strumica, Macedonia, Malena Josephsen's injury time goal in the first match was not enough to avert a 2–1 defeat to Wales. The team was eliminated after another defeat, 1–0 to Kazakhstan. In the final match the Faroe Islands beat hosts Macedonia 7–0 at Stadion Kukuš to record an all-time record win.

World Cup record

World Cup Finals
Year	Result	GP	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD
1991	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1995	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1999	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015	Did Not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	0/7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)

Group 4 in the Group stage

The group stage draw was made on 16 April 2013. Matches are being played from 21 September 2013 to 17 September 2014.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	10	10	0	0	32	1	+31	30	Women's World Cup
2	Scotland	10	8	0	2	37	8	+29	24	Play-offs
3	Poland	10	5	1	4	20	14	+6	16
4	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10	2	3	5	7	19	−12	9
5	Northern Ireland	10	1	2	7	3	19	−16	5
6	Faroe Islands	10	0	2	8	3	41	−38	2

Group 2 in the Preliminary Rounds

The eight lowest teams entered the tournament in the preliminary round were drawn into two groups of four. The two best placed teams in each group advanced to the next round where they will compete among the other thirty-eight teams entered. The preliminary round was drawn on 18 December 2012.^[13] Faroe Islands won Group 2 with 7 points.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Faroe Islands	3	2	1	0	6	4	+2	7
Montenegro	3	1	2	0	6	4	+2	5
Georgia	3	1	0	2	5	7	−2	3
Lithuania	3	0	1	2	4	6	−2	1

Current squad

The squad called up for two friendly matches against Luxembourg on 4 and 6 November 2016 in Luxembourg.^[14]

Caps and goals updated as of 3 November 2016.

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Monika Biskopstøð	(1994-12-20) December 20, 1994	0	0	AaB
20	3MF	Ásla Johannesen	(1996-05-09) May 9, 1996	5	0	B36 Tórshavn
7	3MF	Anna Sofía Sevdal	(1993-12-20) December 20, 1993	24	0	EB/Streymur/Skála ÍF
11	3MF	Sigrun K. Kristiansen	(1989-03-27) March 27, 1989	12	0	EB/Streymur/Skála ÍF
14	3MF	Eyðvør Klakstein	(1995-09-05) September 5, 1995	17	1	KÍ Klaksvík
	3MF	Durita Hummeland	(1998-03-21) March 21, 1998	4	0	EB/Streymur/Skála ÍF
	3MF	Ása K. Thomsen	(1995-05-07) May 7, 1995	4	1	KÍ Klaksvík
	3MF	Maria Thomsen	(1992-07-27) July 27, 1992	0	0	KÍ Klaksvík
	3MF	Birna Tummasardóttir Johannesen	(1994-01-04) January 4, 1994	3	0	EB/Streymur/Skála ÍF
	3MF	Margunn Lindholm	(1996-04-16) April 16, 1996	4	0	EB/Streymur/Skála ÍF
9	4FW	Rannvá B. Andreasen	(1980-11-10) November 10, 1980	43	24	KÍ Klaksvík
13	4FW	Lív Arge	(1997-03-20) March 20, 1997	13	1	HB Tórshavn
	4FW	Súsanna Maria Hansen	(1982-08-02) August 2, 1982	3	0	B36 Tórshavn
15	4FW	Milja Simonsen	(1997-01-11) January 11, 1997	9	3	HB Tórshavn

Recent results

• Faroe Islands 0-0 Northern Ireland (5 April 2014, Tórsvøllur, Faroe Islands)
• Faroe Islands 1-1 Bosnia (10 April 2014, Tórsvøllur, Faroe Islands)
• Sweden 5-0 Faroe Islands (31 October 2013, Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg)
• Poland (26 September 2013, Stadion Oporowska, Wroclaw, Poland)

Achievements

• Island Games: Winners

2001, 2003, 2005

• Women's Baltic Cup: Winners

2016

Records

Source: ^[15]

Players in bold are still active. As of 29 October 2016.

Most capped players

As of 29 October 2016

World record

On 28 November 2012 two of the players of the Faroe Islands women's national team set a world record. For the first time ever a parent and child played together in a football match for their country.^[16] Bára Skaale Klakkstein has played for many years now on the national team, Eyðvør has played for the U17 and U19 national teams, but on 28 November 2012 both mother and daughter played together in a friendly match against Luxembourg. The Faroe Islands won 6–0. Eyðvør was born on 5 September 1995 and was 17 years old when playing this match which was her first for the national team. The mother, Bára Skaale Klakkstein, was born on 24 March 1973^[17] and was 39 years old, when she played the match against Luxembourg. Mother and daughter have played together on the KÍ women's best team since 2010.^[18]

References

Bibliography

External links

• Official website
• FIFA profile

Football in the Faroe Islands
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Cup competitions	Men: Faroe Islands Cup Faroe Islands Super Cup Women: Faroese Women's Cup
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