Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar
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| Full name | Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | FH-ingar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | October 20, 1929 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Kaplakriki, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland (Capacity 2200 seats) |
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| Chairman | Jón Rúnar Halldórsson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Heimir Guðjónsson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Landsbankadeild | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Landsbankadeild, 2nd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FH, in full Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar, is an Icelandic sports club, mainly known outside Iceland for football, from the town of Hafnarfjörður.
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[edit] Overview
The team are perhaps best known outside Iceland for beating Scottish side Dunfermline in the qualifying rounds of the 2004/05 UEFA Cup 4-3 on aggregate. With the second leg in injury time and the aggregate score at 3-3, Dunfermline were set to go through on away goals. However, Tommy Neilsen scored in injury time to send the Icelandic part-timers into the first round.
The team is the current Icelandic champion for the third consecutive year in a row after winning the division with 36 points out of 54 possible. Tryggvi Guðmundsson became the team top-scorer with 8 goals this season. Goalkeeper Daði Lárusson is a regular member of the national team and during the summer of 2006 three players of the club played for the national team, Daði Lárusson, Sigurvin Ólafsson and Ármann Smári Björnsson. Ármann Smári also joined Norwegian team Brann after a superb spell for the first 15 rounds.
Baldur Bett also left the squad in the post season and joined the rivals Valur Reykjavik on a free transfer. The club stadium Kaplakriki now undergoes a major re-development as the southern stand will expand, bringing the seating capacity to 3.500 and further plans aims to take the seating capacity to close to 6.000 which would make the stadium by far the largest one in Iceland, excluding the Laugardalsvöllurstadium. Also there will be made some new club houses, indoor track and field house and roof over the stands.
The team has been full at work on preparing for the 2007 season and on 20 October 2006 the club signed the famous Icelandic twins Arnar Gunnlaugsson and Bjarki Gunnlaugsson and their signing has been marked as a step forward for the club as the twins have played for clubs like Bolton Wanderers F.C., Stoke City, Feyenoord and FC Nürnberg. On 1. November 2006 they signed the 26 year old Matthías Guðmundsson from Valur Reykjavík.
More transfers to FH are unlikely but Ólafur Jóhannesson, FH's manager, said in an interview with fotbolti.net; "We are not looking for any more players at this moment. I think we have the group of players to take to the Icelandic tournoment, but if there are any more good players unsigned that would like to join FH we would gladly welcome them".
The 2007 season saw FH finishing second in the premier division behind main rivals Valur, after losing to them in one of the final games of the season. FH managed to win the Visa-bikar with a 2-1 victory over Fjölnir in the final which secured them a spot in the UEFA Cup qualification round.
In October 2007, Ólafur Jóhannesson left as FH manager to take over the Icelandic national side. In his 5 years in control of FH he won the Premier division 3 times and placed second twice, and winning the league cup 3 times and the cup once.
Heimir Guðjónsson, Ólafur Jóhannesson former assistant-manager and former FH captain, was hired as his replacement.
[edit] Honours
- Icelandic Champion: 3
- 2004, 2005, 2006
- Icelandic League Cups: 4
- 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007
- Icelandic Super Cups: 2
- 2004, 2006, 2007
- VISA-bikar (Icelandic F.A cup): 1
- 2007
[edit] Notable players
[edit] Current team squad
as of July 18, 2007
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