B36 Tórshavn

B36 Tórshavn was officially founded on 28 March 1936, but had already been playing matches since 1935. The capital was growing, and there was a lot of interest in football. B36 was founded by young people who wanted to play football, but had no opportunity to play for the existing club, HB Tórshavn. The initiative was taken by an entrepreneur called Niels Ejdesgaard, who became the first chairman of the new football club. When B36 was founded, they battled with local rivals for the rights to the Gundadalur Stadium, although both teams used the venue and played a number of derby matches there during that initial season. The conflict was solved by the mayor of Tórshavn, who decided that the stadium was to be shared equally between the two clubs. In 1946 the club were celebrated as national champions for the first time, and in 1965 the club won its first national cup.

In 1962, B36 Tórshavn celebrated its fifth national championship, but dark times were to follow. The club would wait 35 years for its next national championship. To make matters worse, rival team HB Tórshavn experienced a lot of success in the same period. In the middle of the 1980s, B36 Tórshavn was relegated twice from the best division. Then in 1987, Kristian á Neystabø took over as chairman and Kjartan Mohr as cashier. They took on the task of rebuilding the club, and succeeded in making a turnaround. The results improved, and the cup was won in 1991, although the National Championship was lost in the final match that same year. Then, in 1997, the club celebrated its first National Championship in 35 years. Since then, B36 Tórshavn has been five time champions, and have won the cup three times.

In the last 20–25 years, the local rivalry with HB Tórshavn has increased, and now the two clubs are about equal in strength. In 2018, the teams fought a fierce cup final, which B36 Tórshavn won on penalties, after one of the most dramatic cup finals ever at The Faroe Islands. After two red cards in the end of the match, B36 Tórshavn was playing 9 against 11 from the stoppage time in the ordinary match and through all the extended time. In the 95th minute, B36 Tórshavn equalized to 2–2 with the last shot in the ordinary match from the youngster Hannes Agnarson, and went on to keep HB Tórshavn from scoring.[2] This 9 against 11 was a repetition of the previous years 2nd leg of the cup semi finals, where B36 Tórshavn also played with 9 men in all the extended time and about 20 minutes of the ordinary time. Despite being down with 2 men, B36 Tórshavn won the match 3–2, when club legend Róaldur Jacobsen scored from 72 meters in the last minute.[3]

Normally Faroese players who move abroad to play football are youngsters who join foreign clubs as academy players, but recently B36 Tórshavn has sold two senior players to Norwegian football teams. After last season the Faroese international defender Odmar Færø was sold to Hamarkameratene, where he now is playing regularly. Likewise, the former Faroe Islands national under-21 football team player Meinhard E. Olsen was sold to Kristiansund BK after last season. He is now working on establishing himself as a regular first team player. In June 2019, he made his debut on the Faroe Islands national football team in a match against Spain.

B36 Tórshavn regularly delivers players to The Faroese National teams. Most recently, Árni Frederiksberg and Andrias Eriksen were called up for the home matches against Spain and Norway.

Former international players in the current team are: Jonas Tor Naes (56 matches), Róaldur Jakobsen (6 matches), Erling D. Jacobsen (5 matches). Alex Mellemgaard and Trygvi Askham have played one international match, and Eli F. Nielsen and Símun Rógvi Hansen have been called up, but not fielded, on the Faroese National Team.

Bjarni Petersen, Magnus H. Jacobsen, Hannes Agnarsson, Hugin Samuelsen, Benjamin Heinesen and Erlendur Magnusson play, or have played, on The Faroese U21 National Team.

Clubs in the Faroe Islands first took part in European competitions in 1992, after the Faroe Islands Football Association became a member of UEFA in 1990. B36 was drawn against Avenir Beggen in the Cup winners Cup Qualifying round in 1992. They came close, but didn't make it through to the first round after a 1–0 loss and a 1–1 draw at home.

In 2005/06, the team reached the second round in the UEFA Cup after defeating ÍBV Vestmannaeyar of Iceland 3–2 on aggregate. In the second round, they narrowly lost to Danish Superliga-club FC Midtjylland 1–2 in the away leg and drew 2–2 at home. The team reached the second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League in 2006/07 after defeating Birkirkara FC of Malta 5–2 on aggregate and were eliminated in second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League, losing both matches to Fenerbahçe 4–0 and 5–0.

In the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League, B36 reached the second qualifying round, after defeating St Joseph's Gibraltar on penalties in the preliminary round, after 2–2 on aggregate. The team also made it through the first qualifying round by defeating OFK Titograd from Montenegro after a 0–0 draw at home and a 2–1 victory away. In the second round, B36 Tórshavn was up against Beşiktaş Istanbul. That opposition was too strong, and the matches ended 0–2 and 0–6.

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1992–93	European Cup Winners' Cup	QR	Avenir Beggen	1–1	0–1	1–2
1997	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group 5	Genk	0–5	N/A	5th
			Stabæk	N/A	0–5
			Dynamo Moskva	0–1	N/A
			Panachaiki	N/A	2–4
1998–99	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Beitar Jerusalem	0–1	1–4	1–5
1999–2000	UEFA Cup	QR	Ankaragücü	0–1	0–1	0–2
2000–01	UEFA Cup	QR	AB	0–1	0–8	0–9
2002–03	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Torpedo Kutaisi	0–1	2–5	2–6
2004–05	UEFA Cup	1Q	Liepājas Metalurgs	1–3	1–8	2–11
2005–06	UEFA Cup	1Q	ÍBV	2–1	1–1	3–2
		2Q	Midtjylland	2–2	1–2	3–4
2006–07	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Birkirkara	2–2	3–0	5–2
		2Q	Fenerbahçe	0–5	0–4	0–9
2007–08	UEFA Cup	1Q	Ekranas	1–3	2–3	3–6
2008–09	UEFA Cup	1Q	Brøndby	0–2	0–1	0–3
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Olimpi Rustavi	0–2	0–2	0–4
2012–13	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Linfield	0–0	0–0	0–0 (3–4 p)
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Linfield	1–2	1–1	2–3
2015–16	UEFA Champions League	1Q	The New Saints	1–2	1–4	2–6
2016–17	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Valletta	2–1	0–1	2–2 (a)
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Nõmme Kalju	1–2	1–2	2–4
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	PR	St Joseph's	1–1	1–1	2–2, 4–2 (p)
		1Q	OFK Titograd	0–0	2–1	2–1
		2Q	Beşiktaş	0–2	0–6	0–8
2019–20	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Crusaders	2–3	0–2	2–5
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	PR

Notes

• PR: Preliminary round
• QR: Qualifying round
• 1Q: First qualifying round
• 2Q: Second qualifying round