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November 2025 Four points from trips to Roskilde and Helsingør let us finish the year on top, though the race is still very tight and actually any of the teams in top eight can seriously think about promotion now. And that’s our first ever senior international call! Stopping Midtjylland in the cup was surely noticed by Håkan Ericson who is still in charge of national team. Though I doubt that Bjarti would actually play for the Faroes, still it’s a landmark for our club. Islands news National team: 0-5 (H) vs Spain in World Cup qualifiers. Zero points, and Ericson’s job is insecure now. Mørk stayed on the bench as expected. FIFA ranking – 147th ( 1) U21: 0-2 (H) vs Belgium, 0-2 (A) vs Czech Republic in Euro qualifiers. U19: 1-2 (A) vs Romania, 2-0 (N) vs Lithuania, 1-1 (N) vs Bosnia in Euro qualifiers B – finished second. U18: 1-1 (N) vs Belarus, 1-0 (N) vs Estonia, 1-0 (A) vs Ukraine in Euro preliminary B – won the group and promoted.

October 2025 After a tough and very important win over Middelfart (a boring game decided by an unexpected forward run from our defensive midfielder) we faced the defending cup holders Midtjylland. And thanks to an exceptional performance from Vitalis Mørk (12 saves including a penalty and 9.6 rating), lots of luck (they hit woodwork three times) and a confident finish for our only promising attack we knocked them out! Of course, it was hard to have that kind of luck for two rounds in a row, and despite a decent quality of play against Silkeborg we lost, setting our best cup result anyway. Helsingør’s advantage disappeared and now we are leading the table, but three other teams are only within a point behind and even a top six place isn’t secured yet. Islands news National team: 1-3 (H) vs Finland, 1-9 (A) vs Austria in World Cup qualifiers. The biggest defeat in 40 years FIFA ranking – 146th ( 1) U21: 0-2 (A) vs Greece, 0-2 (A) vs Montenegro in Euro qualifiers. U19: 2-0 (H) vs Bosnia, 2-1 (H) vs Iceland in friendlies. Betrideildin: HB won the fourth straight title.

September 2025 We loaned defender Hjalgrim Klettskarð from a Scottish Premiership side Hamilton on a deadline day, but he’s unlikely to get much playing time. At least we don’t pay anything in this deal. Got another familiar team in the cup, and this game almost went into a shootout… though eventually it was decided by penalties – Mørk saved a shot on 82nd minute, and then Heinason scored the winning goal on the last seconds of extra time. We’ll face Midtjylland in the next round, hardly can hope to beat them but at least should get a decent attendance. We also moved to the first place in the league after defeating Kolding, but then lost twice in a row despite having a lot of chances in both games. Still going second behind breakaway Helsingør. Islands news National team: 0-2 (A) vs Lithuania in friendly, 0-2 (A) vs Spain in World Cup qualifiers. FIFA ranking – 145th (=) U21: 1-3 (H) vs Czech Republic, 0-4 (H) vs Turkey in Euro qualifiers. U19: 1-0 (A) vs Lithuania, 2-0 (A) vs San Marino in friendlies. U18: 2-0 (A) vs Lithuania in friendly.

August 2025 We lost the survival battle to Nykøbing by a single point last season, so knocking them out of the cup was especially pleasing. The league form is good so far, we only lost to the favourites Helsingør after missing a lot of own chances and certainly should be promotion contenders. Islands news Champions League: HB – 1QR win vs Sutjeska (2-0, 2-0), 2QR loss vs Ferencvaros (0-2, 0-4) Europa League: HB – 3QR loss vs Astana (0-1, 0-1) Conference League: HB – 4QR loss vs RFS (1-2, 1-2) Vikingur – 1QR win vs Telavi (1-1, 2-2 pen), 2QR loss vs Atromitos (0-2, 0-2) B36 – 1QR loss vs Vllaznia (1-3, 0-3) EB/Streymur – 1QR loss vs Vaduz (0-4, 0-2) Overall points – 0.750 (0.500 in 24/25). HB reached the final qualifying stage this time, but overall result wasn’t much better than before.

Pre-season 2025/26 Again no reinforcements for the first team, though we managed to extend Poul Jacobsen’s loan for one more season and signed a new backup goalkeeper Marius Kruse. Could also sign left-back Aksel Heinesen who was on loan here two seasons ago and already had 2 caps for the national team, but he chose another club from our division. I didn’t offer a new contract to our starting left-back Gregersen, he had a long-term injury while earning 140 p/w and other options are not much worse. Our previous backup goalie Bergmann and left winger Ari Olsen moved back to the islands. Our reputation increased to 1,5 stars despite the relegation, still it’s the lowest in this division. Islands news National team: 0-2 (H), 2-3 (A) vs Wales in World Cup qualifiers. FIFA ranking – 145th ( 1) U21: 2-2 (A) vs Montenegro, 7-0 (H) vs San Marino in friendlies. U19: 3-0 (A) vs Lithuania, 2-1 (H) vs Kazakhstan in friendlies. UEFA club ranking – 46th ( 2)

February-May 2025 We fought until the end, but simply weren’t good enough to stay And since we were predicted dead last, the board is actually pleased with our results. Will try to bounce back next season. Squad stats The only player deserving to be highlighted is Bjarti Vitalis Mørk, who was selected as the league’s best goalkeeper! Our finances are better now after getting prize money, but likely to go back below zero in the 3rd tier. Islands news National team: 0-2 (A) vs Finland, 0-6 (H) vs Austria in World Cup qualifiers. FIFA ranking – 144th ( 2) U21: 4-0 (H) vs Latvia, 3-1 (H) vs Albania in friendlies. U19: 0-1 (A) vs Cyprus, 0-3 (H) vs Turkey in friendlies. U18: 0-3 (N) vs France, 0-2 (N) vs Ireland, 2-2 (A) vs Portugal in Euro preliminary group A – relegated.

Winter 2024/25 We found some new players for the first team, they won't take us to a completely new level but so far it isn’t needed, just have to keep the team in this league. Magnus Heinason – with all respect to Ingi Dam who led us to three straight promotion, Magnus will be our first choice at front now. Scored 9 goals in second Faroese division last season. Aron Skipanes – young central midfielder, quite a risky transfer in terms of wage but I liked the attributes that were visible. Eetu Kosonen – Finnish/Faroese center-back, played for Vikingur and both U21 national teams before. Going to be a backup so far. Poul Jacobsen – a deadline loan signing from København, unfortunately other teams with young islanders didn’t want to send them here. Also we sold the first player for money, Toki Thorsteinsson went to Lyngby for 1100 euros. I don’t see him being as good as he was assessed. The second foreign job offer, this time it was one of the biggest Norwegian teams which finished 6th last season.

November-December 2024 After six defeats in a row with only one goal scored we finally snapped this run. Simonsen opened the scoring with a header and then added two assists from corners (which didn’t work for us either for a long time). At least we are going to the winter break outside the relegation zone, hopefully will be able to find some reinforcements from the islands in winter or it’s going to be very tough to survive. Islands news National team: 1-3 (H) vs Montenegro, 1-5 (H) vs Kosovo in Nations League C – finished last. FIFA ranking – 142nd ( 4) U21: 1-0 (A) vs Kazakhstan, 7-0 (H) vs San Marino in friendlies. U19: 0-3 (A) vs Italy, 0-3 (N) vs Portugal, 1-2 (N) vs Northern Ireland in Euro qualifying A – relegated. U19: 0-2 (N) vs Slovakia, 1-0 (N) vs Bosnia, 1-2 (A) vs Austria in Euro preliminary group A – 3rd place.

October 2024 I expected that our results would decline, but certainly not this way. Conceding five from a team that we’ve beaten last season is a disgrace. Top half still isn’t far from us, but so is 11th place now and we have to improve before the winter break. But there was one positive surprise – in this division you get prize money after 11 (and I guess, 22) games! This was enough to cover our current debts. Islands news National team: 0-0 (A) vs Kosovo, 3-6 (A) vs Ukraine in Nations League C. FIFA ranking – 138th ( 2) U21: 3-0 (A) vs Lithuania, 2-3 (A) vs Austria in Euro qualifiers – finished 5th with 7 points. U19: 0-3 (A) vs Turkey, 2-0 (A) vs Latvia in friendlies. Betrideildin: third title in a row for HB.

September 2024 Two 89th minute winning goals, both scored by left wingers, were extremely important as we played against the teams which are going to be our rivals in this survival battle. We easily defeated amateurs in the cup, were drawn against a Superliga side Vejle and lost with a reasonable quality of play. In the final September game we had a trip to leading Esbjerg and I didn’t expect anything good, especially as several first team players weren’t fully fit. The first half wasn’t any surprise, we conceded from a penalty and that wasn’t the worst outcome we could have, but everything changed after half-time. Mohr and Dam, our two attacking leaders who had an unimpressive start of the season, equalized twice and then Dam scored the winning goal from a free kick (again on 89th minute)! This unexpected win allowed us to enter the top six for now. We are highly overperforming though, the xG table puts us to 11th place but Mørk (currently the league’s best player in average rating!) let us fly much higher. Islands news National team: 0-3 (H) vs Ukraine, 1-4 (A) vs Montenegro in Nations League C. FIFA ranking – 136th ( 2) U21: 0-4 (H) vs Austria, 0-5 (H) vs Netherlands in Euro qualifiers. U19: 3-0 (A) vs San Marino, 1-1 (A) vs Slovakia in friendlies.

July-August 2024 We signed the first player directly from Faroese club – central midfielder Margeir Høj, and I really like his mental attributes! The opening game against Horsens ended with a narrow loss, but wasn’t really one-sided and this was an encouraging sign. Next game was our first on the new home stadium against the league favourites, and there we made a massive upset! Lyngby obviously had more chances, but thanks to Mørk’s confident performance we kept our goal safe, and then a substitute midfielder Jakup Helt (he spent last season on loan which really helped him) scored with our first shot on target! And it seems that I underestimated the effect from stadium move, we already set records in attendance and gate receipts. The cup started with a confident win, and the next opposition will be the 5th tier amateurs so we must advance further. Still early to predict anything, but we certainly can survive here. Islands news Champions League: HB – 1QR loss vs Qarabag (1-3, 0-3) Conference League: HB – 2QR loss vs Astana (1-4, 0-1) EB/Streymur – 1QR win vs Shkupi (2-0, 2-2), 2QR loss vs Borac BL (2-2, 1-3) KI – 1QR loss vs HIFK (1-2, 1-4) Vikingur – 1QR loss vs Sumqayit (0-2, 1-2) Overall points – 0.500 (0.875 in 22/23). Awful season with the only win for all.

Pre-season 2024/25 Danielsen played only a few games last season and remained in the club as chief scout, Jakobsen was a more useful rotation player, but the most valuable departure was left-back Heinesen – Randers didn’t want to extend his loan. Speaking of arrivals… there was no one to improve our first eleven (could sign a striker slightly better than Dam, but he chose Aarhus from a division below), we only signed three players for the bench – left-back Jakup Vanthamar Olsen, winger Ari Olsen and striker Oli Poulsen. We are obviously predicted last, and with our squad being even weaker than in previous season that’s going to be really hard (yes, I said it last year too but here we’ll have much stronger opponents, eight of them are fully professional). Also we have an U19 team now, but it’s only for playing in a junior league, still no recruitment. Islands news National team: 0-1 (H) vs Malta, 1-5 (A) vs Luxembourg in friendlies. FIFA ranking – 134th ( 3) U21: 2-0 (H) vs Malta, 1-1 (A) vs Luxembourg in friendlies. U19: 3-0 (H) vs Malta, 3-1 (A) vs Luxembourg in friendlies. U18: 3-1 (H) vs Malta, 2-0 (A) vs Luxembourg in friendlies. Youngsters are surely doing better UEFA club ranking – 44th ( 3)

May-June 2024 Ingi Dam finally ended his drought to save us against Skive when we were 0-2 behind at half-time. The next game was very boring until 94th minute, when veteran Jacobsen scored a long shot… but Hvidovre equalized from kick-off immediately, and still we could get a win – Roason hit the post on the last second The first big win since September allowed us to keep a reasonable gap before three final games, all against teams from 2nd to 4th. Basically three draws would have been enough to win promotion, and a trip to Næstved was close to end 0-0 when Dam won the race for a long ball against goalkeeper and scored into the empty net! So with five points advantage above third place our promotion could be secured against AB. And we did it with the only goal from Mohr who joined us before this season! Another great season for Ingi Dam, who won the best goalscorer and best player awards! Also he was selected into the team of the year along with goalkeeper Mørk and center-back Henriksen. Squad stats Finances became a big concern after turning semi-pro, and I hope we’ll find some income sources in the second tier. Moving to the larger stadium (which we will share with another Nordicbet team Fremad Amager) isn’t going to help us, I hardly can imagine our games having attendances higher than we could get at Kløvermarken (this season we had 367 average attendance from 1700 possible).

April 2024 Five games without winning, and our advantage almost disappeared. Luckily, all other teams in the top group take points from each other so our gap from third place remains quite solid, but AB almost caught us before the game where we finally could end this poor run. Should have won it more confidently though, but our attacking players couldn’t hit an open net sometimes! Hopefully we’ll find the goalscoring form in May and will be able to stay in the top two.

February-March 2024 Quite an easy schedule to resume the season (though we lost one game), and the spot in promotion group is now secured. Now the real challenge starts – all next games will be against the teams from top half. Islands news National team: 3-0 (H), 1-1 (A) vs Gibraltar in Nations League C relegation playoffs. FIFA ranking – 131st (=) U21: 0-4 (A) vs Turkey in friendly. U19: 3-0 (A) vs Cyprus in friendly. U18: 1-1 (H) vs Switzerland, 2-1 (H) vs Montenegro, 0-0 (H) vs Czech Republic in Euro preliminary group B – promoted to group A!

Winter 2023/24 We signed two players for the senior squad – goalkeeper Peter Bergmann from 5th tier team Vejgaard (needed a backup as Lindholm left the team) and experienced central midfielder/defender Heðin Hansen with 5 caps for the national team (6+5 for B68 in Faroese 2nd tier last season). Actually Hansen was our second choice for midfield, the first one was Heini Sørensen, released from Midtjylland. But somehow he preferred an amateur contract with a team currently sitting 8th in a division below ours! Their reputation is still slightly better, but really... should that be the only factor affecting the player's decision?

November 2023 That was extremely boring to watch, we only scored from set pieces but our defense is simply unbreakable and Mørk haven’t conceded for six straight games! Déjà vu, it’s almost the same disposition that we had a year before! Six points over the second place and six teams in a tight group behind us. Can we make the spring part as easy as it was last season? Islands news National team: 0-5 (A) vs Czech Republic, 6-1 (H) vs Liechtenstein in Euro qualifiers. Two national records beaten at once – biggest win (previous was 5-1 against Liechtenstein as well) and most points in a single campaign (10, previous was 9 in 2018). FIFA ranking – 131st ( 2) U21: 2-3 (A) vs Netherlands, 0-1 (H) vs Finland in Euro qualifiers. U19: 1-0 (A) vs Lithuania, 1-1 (A) vs Kazakhstan in friendlies. U18: 1-0 (A) vs Latvia, 3-0 (N) vs Kosovo, 1-0 (N) vs Albania in Euro preliminary group C – promoted to group B.

October 2023 A draw against Hvidovre allowed Næstved to regain the lead before our head-to-head game, but we won it and returned to the top spot! Ingi Dam made the first goal with a through pass to Mohr and then scored from a free kick, the opponents could only get a late consolation. Could be even better if we scored against Middelfart, but that’s fine too Qualifying for the top six is getting much closer now. Islands news National team: 0-3 (H) vs Greece, 0-4 (A) vs Wales in Euro qualifiers. FIFA ranking – 133rd ( 2) U21: 4-0 (H) vs Lithuania, 2-2 (H) vs Serbia in Euro qualifiers. Heinesen was our only player selected here and played both games. U19: 1-1 (H) vs Albania, 2-0 (H) vs Slovenia in friendlies. Betrideldin: HB defended the title.

September 2023 September was a difficult month for us last year, but this time it was just perfect. Five out of five in the league, and our first ever meeting with an elite division team (they are bottom of the league, but still) ended with a huge success! Ingi Dam scored a hat-trick, and Heinesen made his first assist for our team just after half-time. Next opponents were even stronger, currently 6th in Superliga, and we scored immediately to take the lead. Unfortunately, they soon equalized from a free kick, and our goalkeeper’s bad pass became decisive here, but we really played well against these giants. And instead of trying to avoid the relegation we are leading the table now! Everything may change for sure, and I don’t see us winning third straight promotion to be honest, but who knows. Dam leads the scoring chart with 9 goals in the league (13 overall). Islands news National team: 0-2 (H) vs Czech Republic, 0-2 (H) vs Ireland in Euro qualifiers. The fairytale is predictably over. FIFA ranking – 131st ( 1) U21: 2-3 (A) vs Finland, 0-1 (A) vs Austria in Euro qualifiers. U19: 2-1 (H) vs Switzerland in friendly.

August 2023 Shortly before the deadline we loaned a left-back Aksel Heinesen from Randers (they also have a Faroese center-back who would have been a starter, but refused to join us). We were 0-3 behind against Middelfart after conceding two penalties but had an encouraging ending, and that form was fully transferred to the next game! 6-0 against a team predicted third – that’s certainly not what I could expect from our first game at home! Though we are very inconsistent so far, lost to Frem after missing too many chances and only saved a draw against Hillerød which we must defeat to stay clear of relegation. The cup started with a win over lower division amateurs, and then we’ll face our first ever Superliga opponents – Helsingør. Islands news Champions League: HB – 1QR loss vs CSKA Sofia (1-2, 0-2) Conference League: HB – 2QR win TNS (2-0, 3-0), 3QR loss vs Lech (0-2, 1-2) Vikingur – 1QR win vs Sfintul Gheorghe (0-1, 3-1), 2QR loss vs Boavista (0-4, 1-3) KI – 1QR loss vs Rukh Brest (0-2, 2-2) EB/Streymur – 1QR loss vs Sabail (1-2, 0-3) Overall points – 0.875 (2.625 in 22/23). Much worse than the previous season, but the draws were harder as well. 24 new fans joined us after second promotion.

Pre-season 2023/24 Turning semi-pro didn’t give us a broader choice of players to sign, the only first team transfer was agreed when we were still amateurs – Heri Hjalt Mohr, released from HB after winning the Faroese league (he was really useful that season, 2+5 and 7.16 rating) and spent half a year on free transfer before joining us. Will mostly play as a right winger. We signed part-time contracts with most of the team members, regular starters got from 85 to 400 euros per week, and all others agreed to… 1 euro Actually they wanted an amateur contracts, but this trick protects them from free bids. Also our veteran defender Roi Danielsen wanted to become a player/scout, and his staff attributes appeared to be really great (too bad that we can't send scouts to the Faroes yet)! Development loans also became possible with part-time contracts for our youth. All these teams have much better facilities, and our players will have first team practice there. Levi Hanssen decided to retire, and that’s actually a blow for us as we couldn’t find a decent central midfielder to replace him. Predicted last, and our key players are rated worst in the division as well. So a tough battle for survival is expected. Islands news National team: 0-1 (H) vs Wales, 2-1 (A) vs Liechtenstein in Euro qualifiers. Still going second! FIFA ranking – 130th ( 1) U21: 5-1 (H) vs Latvia, 2-1 (H) vs Iceland in friendlies. U19: 1-2 (A) vs Armenia, 2-0 (A) vs Hungary in friendlies. UEFA club ranking – 41st ( 4)

May 2023 Played without any motivation, but still finished this part of the season unbeaten! Brabrand promoted together with us. Agnarsson wasn’t as impressive as he was in our squad (2+2 and 6.89 average rating), but still helped them. Squad stats Surprisingly only one our player was selected into the team of the year, and that was… Levi Hanssen. I agree, he had a good season despite the age, but we surely had better candidates to be included. Though this award doesn’t seem to be very logical, 5 of 11 players are from bottom six teams, and top five players in average rating are not selected. Our stadium is getting expanded, but with average attendance of 156 that isn’t really useful for us now.

April 2023 A comeback win over Vanløse let us finish the first stage with 10 points advantage! The promotion stage had a lot more condensed schedule (especially comparing to previous months, when we had two weeks between league games) and without much room for rotation I feared that we wouldn’t be so fresh and productive. But instead our opponents had a lot more troubles, and in first three games we gained five more points over them, which actually meant… that if we defeat either Brabrand or Vanløse, we won’t finish lower than second place and so will win promotion to the third tier. Well, mathematically we needed four points and did it anyway. The unexpected hero of the month was Gilli Roason, who played for reserves until March but proved to be a better right-wing choice than Hansen. And one really important news item we’ve got: So our key players won’t be poached so easily, but at the same time that may bring some financial concerns as our income is way too small now.

February-March 2023 Agnarsson’s departure caused us some problems in attack, but nothing too serious so far. Reidar Hansen, his direct replacement on the right wing, scored twice to win the first game of 2023 for us. An away draw against 5th placed Roskilde was a good result as we played shorthanded from 15th minute, and finally Ingi Dam had his best game of the season to secure a big win over the league's bottom team. The gap is now seven points, but with two games against each team in the top six it’s not a huge advantage at all. Islands news National team: 1-1 (A) vs Ireland, 2-0 (H) vs Greece in Euro qualifiers. Amazing start of the group, three goals from striker Klæmint Andresson Olsen (32 years, plays in Swedish top tier) sent Faroes to the provisional 2nd place! FIFA ranking – 129th ( 7) U21: 0-6 (A) vs Sweden, 1-3 (H) vs Montenegro in friendlies. U19: 1-0 (H) vs Georgia, 1-1 (N) vs North Macedonia in friendlies. U18: 1-2 (N) vs Ireland, 2-2 (N) vs Finland, 1-1 (A) vs Israel in Euro preliminary group B – finished last and relegated to group C.

Winter 2022/23 We lost our best player, and what’s even worse – he preferred to join our division rivals (also an amateur team) despite having an offer from Faroese semi-pro side As usual, a lot of players were signed after new year, but actually only two of them are worth noticing: Bjarti Vitalis Mørk – our new first choice in goal, and Kristoffur Jakobsen – veteran midfielder, unlikely to become a regular starter, but as a model citizen he can help in mentoring our youngsters.