2008 Úrvalsdeild

The 2008 season of Úrvalsdeild was the 97th season of top-tier football in Iceland. The league, also known as Landsbankadeild for sponsoring reasons, has been expanded from 10 teams to 12 teams in 2008.

Teams and venues

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity
FH	Hafnarfjörður	Kaplakriki	6,000
Keflavík	Reykjanesbær	Keflavíkurvöllur	4,000
Fram	Reykjavík	Laugardalsvöllur	9,800
KR Reykjavík	Reykjavík	KR-völlur	6,000
Valur	Reykjavík	Vodafonevöllurinn	3,000
Fjölnir	Reykjavík	Fjölnisvöllur	1,000
Grindavík	Grindavík	Grindavíkurvöllur	1,500
Breiðablik	Kópavogur	Kópavogsvöllur	5,000
Fylkir	Reykjavík	Fylkisvöllur	4,000
Þróttur	Reykjavík	Valbjarnarvöllur	2,500
HK Kópavogs	Kópavogur	Kópavogsvöllur	5,000
ÍA Akranes	Akranes	Akranesvöllur	850

Promotion and relegation

Víkingur Reykjavík were relegated from Úrvalsdeild after finishing in 10th place the previous season. Their place was taken by 1. deild champions UMF Grindavík. Due to expansion from 10 to 12 teams, 2nd placed Þróttur Reykjavík and 3rd placed Fjölnir Reykjavík were also promoted.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	FH (C)	22	15	2	5	50	25	+25	47	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Keflavík	22	14	4	4	54	31	+23	46	2009–10 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
3	Fram	22	13	1	8	31	21	+10	40
4	KR	22	12	3	7	38	23	+15	39	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round ^1
5	Valur	22	11	2	9	34	28	+6	35
6	Fjölnir	22	10	1	11	39	33	+6	31
7	Grindavík	22	9	4	9	29	36	−7	31
8	Breiðablik	22	8	6	8	41	36	+5	30
9	Fylkir	22	6	4	12	24	40	−16	22
10	Þróttur Reykjavík	22	5	7	10	28	46	−18	22
11	HK (R)	22	5	3	14	26	47	−21	18	Relegation to 1. deild karla
12	ÍA (R)	22	2	7	13	18	46	−28	13

Source: ksi.is (Icelandic)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹KR Reykjavík won VISA-bikar 2008 and thereby qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Each team played every opponent once home and away for a total of 22 matches.

Home ╲ Away

BRE

FJÖ

FRA

FYL

GRI

FH

HK

ÍA

KEF

KR

VAL

ÞRÓ

Breiðablik

4–1

3–0

2–3

3–6

4–1

2–1

6–1

2–2

1–1

0–2

0–0

Fjölnir

1–2

0–1

1–0

0–1

3–3

3–1

2–0

1–2

2–1

2–3

3–4

Fram

2–1

3–1

3–0

0–1

4–1

2–0

2–0

0–2

0–2

2–1

1–0

Fylkir

0–2

0–3

0–3

0–1

0–2

2–1

2–2

3–3

0–2

2–0

2–3

Grindavík

2–2

0–1

0–2

1–3

0–3

2–2

1–1

0–1

2–1

3–5

2–2

FH

3–0

2–0

2–1

1–2

0–1

4–0

2–0

3–2

2–0

3–0

2–0

HK

2–1

1–6

0–2

1–1

0–2

0–4

1–1

1–2

0–3

4–2

4–0

ÍA

1–1

0–3

1–0

2–3

1–2

2–5

1–2

1–4

0–0

0–0

1–1

Keflavík

3–1

1–2

1–2

2–1

3–0

1–0

3–2

3–1

4–2

5–3

5–0

KR

1–2

2–0

2–0

3–0

3–1

1–2

2–1

2–0

2–2

1–2

5–2

Valur

1–0

2–1

2–0

2–0

3–0

0–1

0–1

0–1

1–1

0–1

2–0

Þróttur Reykjavík

2–2

0–3

1–1

0–0

0–1

4–4

2–1

4–1

3–2

0–1

0–3

Source: ksi.is (Icelandic)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Source: ksi.is (Icelandic)

16 goals

• Guðmundur Steinarsson (Keflavík)

14 goals

• Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa (KR)

12 goals

• Tryggvi Guðmundsson (FH)

11 goals

• Atli Viðar Björnsson (FH)

10 goals

• Gunnar Már Guðmundsson (Fjölnir)
• Helgi Sigurðsson (Valur)

9 goals

• Guðjón Baldvinsson (KR)
• Pétur Georg Markann (Fjölnir)
• Nenad Zivanovic (Breiðablik)

8 goals

• Ívar Björnsson (Fram)
• Hjörtur Júlíus Hjartarson (Þróttur)

External links

• Official website (Icelandic)