Koetzer

April-May 2028 We managed to stay fourth with a draw on the last matchday but actually played poorly in this final stage, only scoring five goals and finishing with less points than last season. Jakobsen became the second goalscorer, while two Faroese internationals had the most assists (Knudsen) and clean sheets (Jarnskor). Squad stats Eetu Kosonen had a great year (missed last few games with injury but should be fit for the next season) and agreed to sign a new two (potentially four) years contract. And there is one player whose stats are really disappointing and I have no idea why (thinking about a bug actually). Aron Skipanes has good attributes for a playmaker and is usually among the best in training reports but rarely gets rating over 6.5 in matches (tried different roles and instructions, nothing seems to work ). And after several unsuccessful tries I convinced our board to found the youth academy! We already have a good English HOYD who was hired four years ago and now will finally have actual work Staying above zero after all the investments

February 2028 Struggling to score, but at least our set pieces started working in a win against AB. That result actually secured our top six spot, with promotion places still not so far away. March 2028 We signed one more current international player, midfielder Jakup Andreasen who was free since December but only now lowered his wage demands to a reasonable level. Don’t think that he was the key to our better form in March (that’s more due to an easier schedule), but he certainly makes our squad stronger. Our realistic goal for the second stage is repeating last season’s result, top three teams are close but look much stronger than us. National team We are missing suspended left-back Vang and injured defensive midfielder Øregaard, though Hermansen is finally fit to play and returns to squad. Okay, we won the second half FIFA ranking – 153rd ( 1) U21: 0-4 (H) vs Turkey, 1-4 (A) vs Russia in friendlies. U19: 1-1 (H) vs Moldova, 1-3 (A) vs Iceland in friendlies. U18: 2-0 (N) vs Malta, 2-1 (A) vs Bosnia in Euro preliminary C – promoted to group B.

Winter 2027/28 Transfers in Benjamin Hermansen – we managed to sign the best Faroese center-back after he was released from Nordsjælland! He won’t help us in first games due to injury, but actually it made this transfer possible as there was no interest from other clubs. Hans Hansen – a well-balanced midfielder who spent his whole career in Norwegian 3rd tier side Florø. Bárður Hansen – a veteran right-back with 29 senior caps, still has great technical skills. Transfers out Sold a backup striker Heinason and loaned out several young players. Also we had elections in December, and the new chairman agreed to upgrade training facilities!

They actually relegated from division A, so I have absolutely no idea how it's supposed to work.

November 2027 I’m glad that the winter break is coming after this poor run and we’ll have time to recover. National team No changes, apart from Kallsberg’s return. An early goal in Zagreb didn’t help us much, so far this team can't get points against any European opponents (maybe except San Marino and other small nations). FIFA ranking – 152nd ( 1) U21: 2-4 (A) vs Ireland, 6-3 (A) vs Montenegro in Euro qualifiers. U19: 4-2 (H) vs Liechtenstein, 2-0 (H) vs Armenia in friendlies. U18: 3-0 (A) vs Moldova, 1-2 (N) vs Bulgaria, 2-3 (N) vs Poland in Euro preliminary C – finished third. Wait, what? I thought winning group D in the Nations League doesn’t give a playoff place (and Latvia which won another group didn’t get it). Would be extremely funny to qualify after getting zero points in the group

October 2027 Moved to the top spot on better goal difference after an unbeaten month, though were second after 11 games played so missed the highest prize money (still not enough for any upgrade). The top six is likely to remain the same until the end, but all teams inside it are within a single win from each other! National team Hermansen will be out for half a year, and Kallsberg also missed the selection with injury. Quite a decent result against Germany, but we had two important midfielders sent off despite not using harder tackling and missed them in the second game FIFA ranking – 151st ( 2) U21: 0-2 (H) vs Serbia, 3-0 (H) vs Lithuania in Euro qualifiers. U19: 2-1 (A) vs Cyprus in friendly. Betrideildin: second win in a row for Vikingur and surprisingly high finish for Skala (congratulations to our former player Gestur Dam, who is their regular starter at the age of 33) and AB.

Oh that was close! Though Europa/Conference League is surely better at this point to improve the rankings.

September 2027 Our cup run ended with a heavy defeat this time, but the league form is still good. Though we could take the top spot with at least a draw against surprising leaders AB. National team Vang misses the squad with injury, so I called up Aleksander Tughushi instead. He is a promising left-back and also has Georgian citizenship so it’s important to give him a senior cap. Finally we got the win, even if it’s only a friendly. A game against Croatia was actually equal in stats, though we had most of our chances while already losing 0-3 and couldn’t use any of them. FIFA ranking – 149th ( 4) U21: 1-0 (H) vs Montenegro, 2-3 (A) vs France in Euro qualifiers. U19: 1-3 (H) vs Bosnia, 1-5 (H) vs Scotland in friendlies.

July-August 2027 We signed one more player who is going to replace our aging captain Rogvi Joensen – John Alberts, a Faroese/Dutch midfielder from HB. We opened the season with our biggest ever win (despite the first half was boring and ended 0-0), and this gave us a lot of confidence for the next games. A comeback win over Fremad Amager with a shorthanded winning goal in stoppage time, another huge away victory over Esbjerg, and even the league favourites Viborg couldn’t stop us! Though in a usual FM fashion such a good run ends when it’s hardest to expect, against the team that hasn't won any other game Couldn't keep the top spot, but it’s surely a much better start than I could expected. Though all pre-season favourites (except Viborg) started slowly and should gain better form through the season. Islands news Champions League: Vikingur – 1QR loss vs Astana (0-4, 0-1) Conference League: Vikingur – 2QR win vs Alashkert (4-1, 0-1), 3QR loss vs Sheriff (1-1, 0-1) HB – 1QR win vs Feronikeli (2-3, 2-0), 2QR win vs Dinamo Minsk (1-0, 1-1), 3QR loss vs Nice (0-2, 0-3) EB/Streymur – 1QR win vs Glenavon (1-2, 3-0), 2QR loss vs Apollon (0-3, 0-3) KI – 1QR loss vs Bohemians (0-3, 1-3) Overall points – 1.250 (0.500 in 26/27). Finally quite a decent season with four overall wins and getting a top league opposition.

Pre-season 2027/28 Transfers in Lukas Giessing – an improvement to the right winger position, slightly better and younger than Mohr. Aleksandur Olavsson – a decent center-back on a half-season loan with an option to buy. Jakup Poulsen – young striker for the future. Transfer out Heri Hjalt Mohr was loaned out until the end of his contract in December, and Poul Nolsøe Mikkelsen was released to save on wages. Still predicted last, but the gap in reputation is closing – only three lower division teams are now ahead of us. And that’s the first time we are receiving TV money, obviously a great addition to our finances!

June 2027 Couple of changes among the bench players, but all starters remained in the team. Ryggshamar’s stupid foul ruined our game in Bucharest, the score was 1-1 with 30 minutes to go when he was sent off The home game was never as close to a good result for us, we conceded twice early in first half and didn’t have any chances to equalize after Fredriksen scored the only goal. I hoped that we would recover in a friendly against Kazakhstan, but instead that was the worst game of these three At least Mørk made his debut for national team and saved us from a bigger defeat. FIFA ranking – 153rd ( 8), lowest since the start of this career. U21: 3-2 (H) vs Turkey, 1-1 (A) vs Kazakhstan in friendlies. U19: 0-1 (H) vs Turkey, 1-0 (A) vs Kazakhstan in friendlies. U18: 0-1 (A) vs Kazakhstan in friendly. UEFA club ranking – 48th (=)

May 2027 Horsens was the only team that beat us in all three games before but we snapped this run, completely outplaying them at home and scoring twice within a minute in second half. And in the next game Agnarsson fired two long shots past Jarnskor (obviously not the best game for the leading Faroese goalkeeper) to secure our fourth place! This result was fully deserved, the xG table looks similar except Esbjerg being really unlucky this season. And in addition, our youth team won the U19 First Division! Lucas Ørneborg from Lyngby had some insane stats this season, but we also have outstanding players – Mørk recorded clean sheets in almost every second game, and Poulsen was leading the league in yellow cards Squad stats Agnarsson and Jakobsen, both signed before this season, shared the team’s best goalscorer spot, and center-back Henriksen had the best average rating among outfield players. I’m also quite pleased by younger players claiming squad places, we obviously needed to reduce the average age. Our finances are in the best position ever after getting prize money, still not good enough to ask for the upgrades.

April 2027 The first half of the promotion stage went well for us, after three draws we managed to defeat the league leaders Lyngby, thanks to Knudsen’s debut goal from a free kick and Mørk’s penalty save few minutes after. Unfortunately we couldn’t keep the lead against Fremad Amager when a win would have moved us up to 4th place, but instead got three points from Fredericia with a late goal by Vilhelmsen, a youngster who was signed among other three season ago and developed into a useful backup now. We still can finish fourth, though playing against two top teams in remaining games will make it harder.

March 2027 We needed a win in the last game to stay on 6th place, and two goals from Agnarsson (actually our only goalscorer in March) secured this result! Of course, our promotion is very unlikely with twelve points deficit, but we didn’t hope for it anyway. Though overtaking Fremad Amager for 5th place can be real. National team All key players are healthy, and of course I selected Mørk as the third choice keeper, he deserves it with the club form. I understood that we had no chances in Germany, so rested our strongest players before the more important second game. And the result wasn’t so bad, especially after our right-back Mneney was sent off on 11th minute and Sane immediately scored from a free kick. After all, we only conceded once from open play! Unfortunately, that didn’t help against Macedonia, we actually were better and won the first half but couldn't stop their star Elmas. His goal and assist overturned this game, so we already missed the best chance to get some points here FIFA ranking – 145th ( 2) U21: 4-0 (H) vs Estonia, 2-2 (H) vs Iceland in friendlies. U19: 0-3 (N) vs Austria, 1-4 (A) vs Portugal, 2-5 (N) vs Serbia in Euro qualifiers A – finished last. U18: 0-0 (N) vs Macedonia, 1-3 (N) vs Russia, 0-4 (A) vs Spain in Euro preliminary B – relegated to group C.

February 2027 Almost a perfect start of the year, after a predicted home win over Køge we got four points from two away games. Of course, I’d prefer defeating Næstved which would basically secure our top half spot with three games to go, but anyway staying in this division should be easy even if we finish the preliminary stage on 7th place.

Winter 2026/27 Our last season’s top goalscorer Poul Jacobsen was released by København, but we had no chances to sign him against several top tier teams. However, a few transfers were made. Bergur Osa – finally we seem to find a good left-back, though he needs to learn this position and improve technically. Jogvan Martin Knudsen – released from Esbjerg, will be Agnarsson’s backup so far. Brian Olsen – a promising center-back. Hansen was declining and earned quite a big wage, so I decided to let him go and rely on younger players, like Kosonen who had a good last season on loan. And the biggest winter news, I’m now in charge of the national team. Let’s see how the squad looks in 2027: Olaf Jarnskor (19) – already became a first choice goalkeeper in Esbjerg and should remain our starter for a long time. Hans Bogi Ryggshamar (20) – yes, we have a Bayern player in our team! He actually just joined them from a Swedish side Örgryte and probably would never play for their first squad, but will be a key player for the nation. Can cover both full-backs and DM position, primarily will be used on the right side. Patrik Vang (20) – a rotation left-back in Nordsjælland, but surely the best option in the national team. Sonni Nattestad (32) – one of the remaining veterans, played for several teams in Denmark, Norway and Iceland but never was a regular starter before returning to the home league. Benjamin Hermansen (20) – didn’t play for the national team yet, but looks like the best option for center-back position. Gullbrandur Øregaard (24) – Norwegian-born defensive midfielder, will be the first choice here. Brandur Hendriksson (31) – experienced playmaker with quite a successful career in Sweden. Martin Hansen (20) – probably the biggest star of this generation, started his career in Esbjerg before moving to the Swedish top tier last season. Poul Kallsberg (23) – had really impressive stats in the Faroese league for several seasons, quite strange that he didn’t move to a better league yet. Petur Knudsen (28) – our first choice on left wing, Actually I remember him from games against Esbjerg, he didn’t score but was tough to play against. John Frederiksen (31) – a giant striker playing in Austrian second tier. The Euro qualifiers were already drawn, we got a tough group with Germany, Croatia, Romania and North Macedonia. Hope to finish fourth, though it will be really hard.

November 2026 Two home wins against the bottom half teams allowed us to finish the year on sixth place. Staying here (so securing ourselves from relegation) will be very hard, as four of six remaining games in this stage will be against the teams above us, but the gap from 11th place is encouraging. December 2026 No surprises here, but we filled our stadium for the first time ever and earned 22k in gate receipts! Faroe Islands U21 The squad features four players from our club, six playing for bigger teams abroad and all others from the local league. Defeating Luxembourg was expected, but then we shocked a much better Swiss team, scoring three in the second half! Oskar Berg was the most impressive player in these two games, starting on the bench and successfully replacing our last season hero Poul Jacobsen after half-time. National team: 1-0 (H) vs Andorra, 1-1 (A) vs San Marino in Nations League D – promoted to group C. FIFA ranking – 144th (=) U19: 1-3 (N) vs Austria, 1-0 (N) vs Poland, 6-1 (A) vs Hungary in Euro qualifiers B – finished second and promoted to group A. U18: 1-1 (A) vs Armenia, 0-4 (N) vs Wales, 1-0 (N) vs Finland in Euro preliminary B – finished second.

October 2026 Hansen’s goal from corner ended our bad run, just in time as our gap from relegation zone became shrinking. And then Midtjylland fans certainly would think about some magicians on our side, for the second straight year they had over 30 shots on goal but couldn’t score! Lots of saves from Mørk, some unbelievable misses and one of the few counters ending with Jakobsen’s goal. We are through to the quarter-final and will play against Brøndby in December. A great draw in terms of finances, we had the best attendances and income in friendlies against them before. Islands news National team: 1-0 (A) vs Andorra in Nations League D. FIFA ranking – 144th ( 1) U21: 1-1 (H) vs Greece, 1-0 (H) vs Montenegro in Euro qualifiers. After eight defeats in a row Faroese team finally got points and overtook Montenegro on the last matchday. U19: 0-1 (H) vs Macedonia, 0-2 (H) vs Bosnia in friendlies. After these games the U21 team manager decided to resign, so: Two friendlies in November will be my international debut, and Ericson is actually retiring in December so there will be a chance to manage the senior team soon.

September 2026 A much worse month for our attack, but we kept the mid-table position and advanced in the cup, where will face Midtjylland once again. Time for an annual miracle? Islands news National team: 3-1 (H) vs San Marino in Nations League D. Finally an opposition they could beat. FIFA ranking – 145th ( 3) U21: 1-3 (A) vs Turkey, 0-5 (A) vs Belgium in Euro qualifiers. U19: 0-2 (A) vs Russia, 3-2 (H) vs Armenia in friendlies.

July-August 2026 The schedule was nice to us, playing at home against another promoted team gave a good chance to start with a win, and Jakobsen’s debut goal made it real! Our form in August was quite impressive, we are going in the top half and that’s not an overperformance that was at some point two years ago. All the wins were fully deserved, so survival should be possible this season. Unfortunately, Agnarsson’s return is spoiled by injuries so far, the latest one will keep him out for a month. Islands news Champions League: HB – 1QR loss vs CSKA Sofia (0-4, 0-4) Conference League: HB – 2QR loss vs Prishtina (0-1, 1-1) Vikingur – 1QR loss vs KA (1-0, 0-2) B36 – 1QR loss vs Milsami (0-1, 0-3) EB/Streymur – 1QR loss vs Spartaks (2-3, 2-2) Overall points – 0.500 (0.750 in 25/26). A few close battles, but all were lost.

Pre-season 2026/27 We couldn’t extend Poul Jacobsen’s loan, but managed to sign several players for the first team. Hannes Agnarsson – after three and a half seasons in Brabrand he’s back and still remains one of the key players! Hilmar Leon Jakobsen – our new first choice at front with a bit of international experience and decent stats in Faroese top division (had 7+ average rating in four straight seasons). Arni Olsen – not a great player, but will be our starting left-back (really the weakest position in first 11). Patrick Johannesen – will cover both winger positions for free. Our odds are exactly the same as two years ago, and for the first time ever we sold more than 100 season tickets. Islands news UEFA club ranking – 48th ( 2). No national team games in summer this time. Meanwhile in America… A huge surprise by itself, but what made it even more impressive – Haaland missed the tournament with injury!

May 2026 Defeat in the first game let Roskilde move to the top spot, but we regained it in the next match and then increased the lead with a late free kick winner from Danielsen! Also after this win we needed the only point to secure promotion, but actually got all twelve. The decisive goal was scored by Bartalsstovu, which is totally deserved – he is our best player after arrival in winter. Hopefully our second try to survive in the NordicBet League will be more successful. Squad stats Poul Jacobsen became the league’s best player, I hope we’ll be able to keep him for one more season. Bartalsstovu and Mohr were excellent on the wings, Mørk, Danielsen and Hansen were also selected into team of the season. Squad bonuses hit our finances quite hard in the end, but we’ll get guaranteed prize money next season. Staying in the second tier would be crucial for getting a quality replacement to our aging core.

Thanks, yes he's surely a key player now. though won't be for many years (already 34 ). Meihard Olsen and Baldvinsson actually were available in the last transfer window, but we are still semi-pro, low on finances and reputation, so have no chance to sign if there is a bid from Faroe top division or better Danish teams. April 2026 After two more wins we started the promotion stage with 12 points advantage over third place! Unfortunately then our form wasn’t so impressive, we lost to Roskilde after conceding three goals in six minutes, scored a late winner in a hard game against B93 and couldn’t break through Helsingør defense, but at least that was enough to keep the gap quite big. Nine points with seven games to go, including a trip to Helsingør and meeting Middelfart twice. Avoiding defeats there should actually be enough for promotion.

February-March 2026 Great start of the year, and we increased our lead. Bartalsstovu’s signing was a key to this form, he had 2+5 in three games! I hope he won’t retire immediately after this season and will help us in case of promotion. Islands news National team: 0-4 (H), 2-2 (A) vs Azerbaijan in Nations League C playoffs – relegated to group D. Ericson's job status is... stable, guess he won't leave until retirement. FIFA ranking – 148th ( 1) U21: 2-3 (A) vs Serbia, 0-0 (H) vs Hungary in friendlies. U19: 1-1 (H) vs Hungary, 1-1 (A) vs Armenia in friendlies. U18: 0-1 (N) vs Portugal, 0-2 (A) vs Germany, 1-2 (N) vs Belgium in Euro preliminary A – relegated to group B.

Winter 2025/26 We were overspending after extending some first team contracts so actually couldn’t offer any wages to the free agents, but still found some new players. Kaj Leo I Bartalsstovu – a veteran winger with 28 caps for the national team, still having great technical ability for our level. Alex Mellemgaard – another veteran who will slightly improve a left-back position. Simon Holten, Jonas Mouritsen and Bogi Joensen – youngsters with good potential. Pol Vang – another loan from Scotland, and again unlikely to become a first team player. To fit into the wage budget I loaned out Isak Simonsen until the end of his contract. Still a useful squad member, but getting older and was the easiest to replace.