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 (52)
Top scorer Rannvá B. Andreasen (26)
Home stadium Tórsvøllur
FIFA code FRO
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current 81 Decrease 7 (22 June 2018)
Highest 60 (June 2009)
Lowest 88 (July–September 2015)
First international
Official
Faroe Islands Faroe Islands 0–2 Ireland Republic of Ireland
(Toftir, Faroe Islands; September 24, 1995)
Unofficial
Iceland Iceland 6–0 Faroe Islands Faroe Islands
(Kópavogur, Iceland; June 25, 1986)
Biggest win
Official
Faroe Islands Faroe Islands 8–0 Andorra Andorra
(Ħamrun, Malta; 6 April 2015)
Unofficial
Faroe Islands Faroe Islands 16–0 Jersey Jersey
(Douglas, Isle of Man; July 12, 2001)
Biggest defeat
Germany Germany 11–0 Faroe Islands Faroe Islands
(Aspach, Germany; October 24, 2017)
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.

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
China 1991Did not enter–––––––
Sweden 1995–––––––
United States 1999–––––––
United States 2003–––––––
China 2007–––––––
Germany 2011–––––––
Canada 2015Did not qualify–––––––
France 2019Did not qualify-------
Total0/8-------
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification

Preliminary round

Group 4

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Faroe Islands (H) 3 3 0 0 9 3 +6 9 Qualifying group stage — 2–1 — 5–1
2  Turkey 3 2 0 1 13 3 +10 6 — — 3–0 9–1
3  Montenegro 3 1 0 2 8 6 +2 3 1–2 — — —
4  Luxembourg 3 0 0 3 3 21 −18 0 — — 1–7 —
Source: UEFA
(H) Host.

Current squad

The squad called up for the match against Iceland for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification.[13]

Caps and goals updated as of 24 November 2017.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Monika Biskopstø (1994-12-29) 29 December 1994 3 0 Denmark AaB
1GK Jóna Nicolajsen (1986-05-16) 16 May 1986 4 0 Faroe Islands B36 Tórshavn
2DF Birita Nielsen (1999-09-07) 7 September 1999 5 1 Faroe Islands B68 Toftir
2DF Arnborg Lervig (1997-10-20) 20 October 1997 2 0 Faroe Islands ÍF/Víkingur
2DF Katrina Akursmørk (1996-10-21) 21 October 1996 2 0 Faroe Islands KÍ Klaksvík
2DF Rebekka Danielsen (2000-03-10) 10 March 2000 0 0 Norway Forus og Gausel
2DF Guðrið Poulsen (1997-05-08) 8 May 1997 0 0 Faroe Islands EB/Streymur/Skála
3MF Birna Tummasardóttir Mikkelsen (1994-01-04) 4 January 1994 12 0 Faroe Islands EB/Streymur/Skála
3MF Lív Arge (1997-03-20) 20 March 1997 22 2 Denmark FC Nordsjælland
3MF Anna Sofía Sevdal (1993-12-20) 20 December 1993 33 0 Faroe Islands EB/Streymur/Skála
3MF Eyðvør Klakstein (1995-09-05) 5 September 1995 26 4 Spain Mislata
3MF Olga Kristina Hansen (1990-02-28) 28 February 1990 47 5 Denmark Ballerup-Skovlunde Fodbold
3MF Ásla Johannesen (1996-05-09) 9 May 1996 14 1 Denmark FC Nordsjælland
3MF Evy á Lakjuni (1999-08-12) 12 August 1999 0 0 Faroe Islands KÍ Klaksvík
3MF Jacoba Langgaard (1988-09-24) 24 September 1988 5 1 Faroe Islands ÍF/Víkingur
4FW Margunn Lindholm (1996-04-16) 16 April 1996 9 0 Faroe Islands EB/Streymur/Skála
4FW Milja Simonsen (1997-01-11) 11 January 1997 18 4 Faroe Islands HB Tórshavn
4FW Rannvá Andreasen (1980-11-10) 10 November 1980 52 26 Faroe Islands KÍ Klasvík
4FW Heidi Sevdal (1989-03-06) 6 March 1989 45 19 Faroe Islands HB Tórshavn
4FW Hanna Højgaard (1989-04-07) 7 April 1989 1 0 Faroe Islands ÍF/Víkingur

Achievements

2001, 2003, 2005
2016[14]

Records

Source: [15]

Players in bold are still active.

Most capped players

As of 11 April 2017

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

  1. 1 2 3 "Faroese future in safe hands". UEFA. 21 February 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Stokkermans, Karel (11 July 2013). "Faroe Islands – List of Women Champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "Fixtures and Results – From 01.01.1986 To 31.12.1986". FIFA. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  4. ↑ "Leikskýrsla". Football Association of Iceland. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  5. ↑ Courtney, Barrie (16 May 2008). "Faroe Islands – List of International matches". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  6. ↑ Timmermann, Bernd (28 January 2004). "European Women Championship 1995–97". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 26 November 2011. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  7. ↑ Josephsen, Malena. "Føroyar – Írland 0 – 2 (0–1)". KÍ – Kvinnur – Online. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  8. ↑ Josephsen, Malena. "Skotland – Føroyar 7 – 1 (3–1)". KÍ – Kvinnur – Online. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  9. ↑ Josephsen, Malena. "Wales – Føroyar". KÍ – Kvinnur – Online. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  10. ↑ Lopez 1997, p. 185
  11. ↑ "Interview: Malena Josephsen (KI Klaksvik)". Soccerway. 24 September 2005. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
  12. ↑ Duret, Sébastien (5 April 2005). "International matches (Women) 2004". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  13. ↑ "A-landsliðið við kvinnum úttikið" (in Faroese). FSF. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  14. ↑ "Kvinnurnar vinnarar av Baltic Cup 2016" (in Faroese). FSF. August 7, 2016. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Landsliðsleikarar 1995–2013" (in Faroese). Faroe Islands Football Association. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
  16. ↑ Sportal.fo, Eyðvør og Bára skrivaðu søgu
  17. ↑ Bára Skaale Klakkstein on Faroesoccer.com
  18. ↑ Faroesoccer.com (chose "Útilið", statistics from one of the 2010 matches where mother and daughter played together).

Bibliography

  • Lopez, Sue (1997). Women on the Ball: A Guide to Women's Football. London, England: Scarlet Press. ISBN 1857270169.
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