2015 Faroe Islands Premier League

Effodeildin

Season	2015
Matches played	120
Goals scored	413 (3.44 per match)
Top goalscorer	Klæmint Olsen (19 goals)
Biggest home win	NSÍ Runavík 6–1 Suðuroy Víkingur Gøta 7–2 TB
Biggest away win	EB/Streymur 0–8 NSÍ Runavík
Highest scoring	Víkingur Gøta 7–2 TB
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2015 Faroe Islands Premier League is the 73rd season of top-tier football on the Faroe Islands. For sponsorship reasons, it is known as Effodeildin. B36 Tórshavn are the defending champions, having won their tenth Faroese title last season.

Teams

AB

B36

EB/Streymur

Suðuroy

HB

ÍF

KÍ

NSÍ

TB

Víkingur

Location of teams in Effodeildin 2015

Skála and B68 had finished 9th and 10th respectively at the end of the previous season and were relegated to the 1. deild as a result.

Replacing them were the 1. deild champions TB and runners-up Suðuroy.

Team summaries

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Manager	Kit	Shirt sponsor
AB	Argir	Skansi Arena	2,000	Sámal Erik Hentze	Adidas	The Irish Pub
B36 Tórshavn	Tórshavn	Gundadalur	5,000	Eyðun Klakstein	Adidas	J&K Petersen
EB/Streymur	Streymnes	Við Margáir	1,000	Eliesar Olsen	Nike	[note 1]
Suðuroy	Vágur	Á Eiðinum	3,000	Jón Pauli Olsen	Nike	Suðuroyar Sparikassi[1]
HB	Tórshavn	Gundadalur	5,000	Milan Cimburović	Nike	Auto Service
ÍF	Fuglafjørður	Í Fløtugerði	3,000	Aleksandar Jovević	Puma	Havsbrún
KÍ	Klaksvík	Við Djúpumýrar	3,000	Mikkjal Thomassen	Adidas	JFK
NSÍ Runavík	Runavík	Við Løkin	2,000	Trygvi Mortensen	Nike	Bakkafrost
TB	Tvøroyri	Við Stórá	4,000	Páll Guðlaugsson	Hummel	Varðin Pelagic
Víkingur Gøta	Norðragøta	Sarpugerði	3,000	Sigfríður Clementsen	Adidas	P/F Wenzel[2]

Note

1. Thor, Atlanticpane, Bátafiskur, Norðsetur and Vermland are the sponsors of EB/Streymur, each player wears a shirt with one of these five different sponsors.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
EB/Streymur	Rúni Nolsøe	Resigned	11 November 2014	Pre-season	Eliesar Olsen	11 November 2014[3]
KÍ	Eyðun Klakstein	Sacked	11 November 2014		Mikkjal Thomassen	11 November 2014[4]
ÍF	Albert Ellefsen	Resigned	11 November 2014		Aleksandar Jovević	28 November 2014[5]
B36 Tórshavn	Sámal Erik Hentze	Resigned	24 November 2014[6]		Eyðun Klakstein	11 December 2014[7]
AB	Oddbjørn Joensen	Sacked	1 June 2015	9th	Sámal Erik Hentze	1 June 2015[8]
HB	Heðin Askham	Resigned	8 August 2015[9]	4th	Milan Cimburović	9 August 2015[10]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	B36 Tórshavn (C, Q)	27	18	7	2	60	25	+35	61	Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
2	NSÍ Runavík (Q)	27	16	6	5	73	37	+36	54	Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
3	Víkingur Gøta (Q)	27	15	8	4	68	35	+33	53
4	HB (Q)	27	11	10	6	43	31	+12	43
5	KÍ	27	11	8	8	50	41	+9	41
6	ÍF	27	5	12	10	44	56	−12	27
7	TB	27	4	14	9	36	47	−11	26
8	AB	27	4	12	11	34	42	−8	24
9	Suðuroy (R)	27	6	4	17	39	68	−29	22	Relegation to 1. deild
10	EB/Streymur (R)	27	2	5	20	27	92	−65	11

Source: Faroe Soccer, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored.^[11]
(C) Champion; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated; (R) Relegated.
Notes:

1. Víkingur Gøta qualified for the UEFA Europa League first qualifying round by winning the 2015 Faroe Islands Cup.

Positions by round

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
AB	2	5	8	7	7	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
B36 Tórshavn	6	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1
EB/Streymur	6	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Suðuroy	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
HB	2	5	3	3	3	4	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4
ÍF	2	5	6	8	8	5	5	6	5	7	6	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	7	6
KÍ	6	2	5	5	6	7	6	5	7	5	7	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
NSÍ Runavík	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2
TB	6	8	3	3	5	6	7	7	6	6	5	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	6	7
Víkingur Gøta	2	3	6	6	4	3	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3

Last updated: 9 August 2015
Source: Faroe Soccer

Results

Regular home games

Home ╲ Away	AB	B36	EBS	SUÐ	HB	ÍF	KÍ	NSÍ	TB	VÍK
AB		1–3	1–2		0–1	1–1	0–4	1–2	1–1	0–0
B36 Tórshavn	1–1		1–1	1–0	1–1	4–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	3–3
EB/Streymur	0–0	0–2			0–3	2–2	4–4	0–8	0–3	1–2
Suðuroy	3–1	1–3	2–1		1–2			1–3	1–3	1–3
HB	2–2	1–3	4–2	0–0		1–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	2–1
ÍF	3–3	3–1	4–1	2–3	1–1		3–1	0–3	2–0	1–3
KÍ	2–1		4–0	3–0	0–2	0–0		3–3	1–0	3–2
NSÍ Runavík	2–1	2–2	5–1	6–1	2–0	3–1	3–0		0–0	2–4
TB	1–1	1–3	3–2	4–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–3		2–2
Víkingur Gøta	3–1	1–1	3–0	4–0	3–0	2–2	3–3	5–1	7–2

Updated to games played on 9 August 2015.
Source: Faroe Soccer
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	AB	B36	EBS	SUÐ	HB	ÍF	KÍ	NSÍ	TB	VÍK
AB									3–0	0–0
B36 Tórshavn							2–1	3–0
EB/Streymur	0–4	0–5				0–3
Suðuroy	1–1		3–2						2–2
HB	3–1								2–2
ÍF				3–3	2–2
KÍ				2–1	2–0
NSÍ Runavík			6–0			5–1
TB							1–1
Víkingur Gøta							1–1	3–1

Updated to games played on 23 August 2015.
Source: Faroe Soccer
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

As of 13 November

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Klæmint Olsen	NSÍ Runavík	21
2	Finnur Justinussen	Víkingur Gøta	15
3	Andreas Lava Olsen	Víkingur Gøta	12
	Pól Jóhannus Justinussen	NSÍ Runavík	12
5	Heðin Klakstein	KÍ Klaksvík	11
6	Albert Adu	TB	10
	Árni Frederiksberg	NSÍ Runavík	10
	Łukasz Cieślewicz	B36 Tórshavn	10
9	Hans Pauli Samuelsen	B36 Tórshavn	9

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Klæmint Olsen	NSÍ Runavík	Suðuroy	6−1[12]	1 March 2015
Andreas Lava Olsen	Víkingur Gøta	B36 Tórshavn	3−3[13]	8 March 2015
Arnbjørn Hansen	HB	EB/Streymur	4−2[14]	2 April 2015
Finnur Justinussen^1	Víkingur Gøta	Suðuroy	4−0[15]	2 April 2015
Albert Adu	TB	Suðuroy	4−1[16]	14 May 2015
Klæmint Olsen	NSÍ Runavík	EB/Streymur	0−8[17]	25 May 2015
Andreas Lava Olsen	Víkingur Gøta	NSÍ Runavík	2−4[18]	31 May 2015
Pól Jóhannus Justinussen	NSÍ Runavík	ÍF	5−1[19]	3 August 2015

• ¹ Scored four goals.

References

1. "Suðuroyar Sparikassi høvuðsstuðul hjá FC Suðuroy" (in Faroese). FC Suðuroy. 17 March 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
2. "VÍKINGUR NÝGGJAN HØVUÐSSPONSOR" (in Faroese). Víkingur. 10 February 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
3. "Eliesar Olsen new EB/Streymur coach". Soccer and Equipment. 11 November 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
4. "As novidades do KÍ" (in Portuguese). Faroe Football. 13 November 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
5. "Venjarin settur" (in Faroese). ÍF. 28 November 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
6. "Sámal Erik Hentze givin í B36" (in Faroese). KVF. 24 November 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
7. "B36 váttar: Eyðun er nú venjari hjá B36" (in Faroese). Norðlýsið. 11 December 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
8. "Nú er Sámal Erik Hentze venjari hjá AB" (in Faroese). Kringvarp Føroya. 1 June 2015.
9. "HB Tórshavn coach Heðin Askham resigns". Soccer and Equipment. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
10. "Her er nýggi venjari hjá HB" (in Faroese). in.fo. 9 August 2015.
11. "Meistaradeildin 2015 - Season rules". Scoresway. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
12. "NSÍ - FC Suðuroy 6-1" (in Faroese). Faroe Soccer. 1 March 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
13. "B36 - Víkingur 3-3" (in Faroese). Faroe Soccer. 8 March 2015.
14. "HB - EB/Streymur 4-2" (in Faroese). Faroe Soccer. 2 April 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
15. "Víkingur - FC Suðuroy 4-0" (in Faroese). Faroe Soccer. 2 April 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
16. "TB - FC Suðuroy 4-1" (in Faroese). Faroe Soccer. 14 May 2015.
17. "EB/Streymur - NSÍ 0-8" (in Faroese). Faroe Soccer. 25 May 2015.
18. "NSÍ - Víkingur 2-4" (in Faroese). Faroe Soccer. 31 May 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
19. "NSÍ - ÍF 5-1" (in Faroese). Faroe Soccer. 3 August 2015.