2011 Faroe Islands Premier League

Faroe Islands Premier League

Season	2011
Champions	B36 (9th title)
Relegated	07 B71
Champions League	B36
Europa League	EB/Streymur Víkingur NSÍ
Matches played	135
Goals scored	477 (3.53 per match)
Top goalscorer	Finnur Justinussen (20 goals)
Biggest home win	NSÍ 9-0 07
Biggest away win	B71 0-6 KÍ B71 0-6 Víkingur 07 1-7 EB
Highest scoring	07 4-6 NSÍ (19 June 2011)
Longest winning run	EB/Streymur (10 games)[1]
Longest unbeaten run	B36 (16 games)[1]
Longest winless run	07 Vestur, B71 (11 games each)[1]
Longest losing run	B71, KÍ (6 games each)[1]
← 2010 2012 →

2011 Faroe Islands Premier League, also known as Vodafonedeildin for sponsorship reasons is the sixty-ninth season of top-tier football on the Faroe Islands. It began on 9 April 2011 and ended on 22 October 2011. HB Tórshavn are the defending champions, having won their 21st league championship in the previous season.

Teams

FC Suðuroy and AB Argir were relegated to 1. deild after finishing 9th and 10th in the 2010 season. Suðuroy are relegated after just one season in the top flight while AB Argir go down after two seasons in the top flight.

They were replaced by 1. deild champions 07 Vestur and runners-up KÍ Klaksvík. Both make their return to the top flight after a one-year absence.

Team summaries

07 Vestur

B36
HB

B68

B71

EB/Streymur

ÍF

KÍ

NSÍ

Víkingur

Geographical location of the 2011 Faroese Premier League teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Manager
07 Vestur	Sandavágur	á Dungasandi	2,000	Jóhan Nielsen
B36	Tórshavn	Gundadalur	5,000	John Petersen Mikkjal Thomassen
B68	Toftir	Svangaskarð	6,000	Bill McLeod Jacobsen
B71	Sandur	Sandur Stadium	2,000	Piotr Krakowski
EB/Streymur	Streymnes	Við Margáir	1,000	Heðin Askham
HB	Tórshavn	Gundadalur	5,000	Sigfríður Clementsen
ÍF	Fuglafjørður	Fløtugerði	3,000	Rúni Nolsøe Símun Eliasen
KÍ	Klaksvík	Injector Arena	3,000	Aleksandar Đorđević
NSÍ	Runavík	Runavík Stadium	2,000	Pauli Poulsen
Víkingur	Norðragøta	Serpugerði Stadium	2,000	Jógvan Martin Olsen

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	B36 Tórshavn (C)	27	21	4	2	63	28	+35	67	2012–13 UEFA Champions League First qualifying round
2	EB/Streymur	27	19	3	5	66	32	+34	60	2012–13 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round ^1
3	Víkingur Gøta	27	18	5	4	61	31	+30	59	2012–13 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round ^1
4	NSÍ Runavík	27	11	8	8	58	47	+11	41
5	KÍ	27	10	4	13	48	50	−2	34
6	B68 Toftir	27	9	5	13	44	44	0	32
7	ÍF	27	8	4	15	36	44	−8	28
8	HB	27	7	5	15	46	56	−10	26
9	07 Vestur (R)	27	6	6	15	30	65	−35	24	Relegation to 1. deild
10	B71 Sandoy (R)	27	3	2	22	25	80	−55	11

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹EB/Streymur won the 2011 Faroe Islands Cup competition and will qualify for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League. The other two Europa League places were thus given to the third and fourth placed teams.
(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

The schedule consisted of a total of 27 games. Each team played three games against every opponent in no particular order. At least one of the games was at home and one was away. The additional home game for every match-up was randomly assigned prior to the season with the top five teams of the previous season having 5 home games.

Regular home games

Home ╲ Away	07V	B36	B68	B71	EBS	HB	ÍF	KÍ	NSÍ	VÍK
07 Vestur		0–3	0–1	2–1	1–7	1–0	1–0	3–3	4–6	1–1
B36 Tórshavn	1–0		1–0	4–1	1–0	4–1	1–1	4–1	4–3	2–0
B68 Toftir	1–1	2–2		3–1	1–0	0–0	3–4	3–0	1–1	1–2
B71 Sandoy	2–0	2–3	0–5		1–2	0–2	1–4	0–6	1–6	0–3
EB/Streymur	1–0	2–1	3–2	5–1		3–1	1–0	2–0	2–2	2–1
HB	5–0	1–3	3–3	2–0	3–2		3–1	1–4	0–0	1–2
ÍF	1–2	1–1	3–1	1–2	0–4	3–0		0–1	1–1	1–2
KÍ	1–2	0–2	3–1	1–2	1–3	2–2	2–0		1–2	0–1
NSÍ Runavík	9–0	2–3	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	3–3		0–1
Víkingur Gøta	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–2	2–1	3–1	1–0	2–1	3–2

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

Additional home games

Home ╲ Away	07V	B36	B68	B71	EBS	HB	ÍF	KÍ	NSÍ	VÍK
07 Vestur		2–3	0–1	2–2				2–2
B36 Tórshavn				2–1	1–2	3–2	3–0
B68 Toftir		2–3			3–2	1–0	0–1
B71 Sandoy			0–3					0–1	1–3	1–4
EB/Streymur	2–1			1–0				3–0	5–1	3–3
HB	4–1			5–0	3–4			1–3		2–2
ÍF	1–2			3–2	0–2	7–1		0–1
KÍ		0–3	5–3						5–1	1–4
NSÍ Runavík	1–0	1–2	2–1			2–1	1–2
Víkingur Gøta	5–1	0–2	4–1				4–0		1–2

Updated to games played on 22 October 2011.
Source: Soccerway
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Including matches on 16 October; Source: Faroese FA^[2]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Finnur Justinussen	Víkingur	20
2	Klæmint Olsen	NSÍ	17
3	Łukasz Cieślewicz	B36	15
4	Arnbjørn Hansen	EB/Streymur	14
	Kristoffur Jakobsen	KÍ	14
6	Christian Høgni Jacobsen	NSÍ	13
	Clayton Soares do Nascimento	07 Vestur	13
8	Chris Muomaife	ÍF	12
	Jákup á Borg	B36	12
10	Símun Samuelsen	HB	11

See also

• 2011 Faroe Islands Cup

References

1. "Formuladeildin - 2011". WhoScored.com. WhoScored.com. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
2. "Faroese FA". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 27 March 2012.

External links

• Official website (Faroese)
• Faroe Islands soccer news, results and information
• Faroe Islands soccer news, results, statistics and information