Breiðablik UBK

The Breiðablik UBK is an Icelandic football club from Kópavogur. The club colors of the club in 1950 are green - white-red. The women's football section of the club is the most successful of Iceland.

• 3.1 Achievements
• 3.2 Former Players

General

The club was founded on 12 April 1950. Initially there was only one men's team. Later, a women's team was founded.

The name comes from Keflavík Norse mythology and means something like Balder's home. The nickname is derived from Blikar second part of the name Breiðablik and means in Icelandic as much as the Glorious or even the ducks. The home ground of the association is the stadium Kópavogsvöllur which will provide 3,500 people.

Women's Soccer

1972 Friendly Tournament, the highest division in the Icelandic women's football was founded and Breiðablik was one of the party. Breiðablik is the only club that never was relegated from the league. In 1977, the first of 15 championships so far been obtained. In addition, the club nine times won the Icelandic Cup, making it the most successful club in Icelandic women's football.

2001 would Breiðablik Kópavagur Iceland are represented in the first edition of the UEFA Women 's Cup. Since a majority of the team stayed to study in the U.S., was abandoned in favor of the runner- KR Reykjavík for the start. A year later qualified for a re, but came with an inexperienced team. It was behind Fortuna Hjørring (Denmark ) and the FC Bobruichanka ( Belarus ) group of third parties. After all, one could suggest that the Moldovan champions FC Codru Anenii Noi 2-0.

Due to the Championship in 2005 they took the time for the second time in the UEFA Women 's Cup. With three wins against SV Neulengbach ( Austria ), SU 1 ° Dezembro (Portugal) and the Newtownabbey Strikers (Northern Ireland) pulled one clean sheet in the second round, where he met, among others, on the defending 1st FFC Frankfurt. According to survive the second group stage you failed in the quarterfinals at the eventual champions Arsenal.

Achievements

• Icelandic Champion (15): 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2005
• Icelandic Cup Winner (9): 1981, 1982, 1983, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005

Mr. Football

The men's team is known as the lift team. In the last 40 years the team five times and rose again to five times again. Since 1998, the team is an integral part of the first Icelandic league. 2009 was the most successful year in the men's team in the Icelandic Cup could be won. In 2010, the first time was called the Icelandic championship. At the end of the 22 game day the Master had exactly as many points as the runner- FH Hafnarfjörður. Therefore, the 98 Icelandic championship was decided on goal difference.

The subsequent first participation in the Champions League qualifier in 2011, although they lost against Rosenborg BK, but won the return match at home respectable 2-0 after losing 0:5 in Norway. The greatest international success of the club was 2013/14, scored in the qualifying for the UEFA Europa League, when, after a 0-0 draw at home in the away match of the Austrian club SK Sturm Graz 1-0 was defeated and Breiðablik thus ascended into the third qualifying round.

Achievements

• Icelandic Champion: 2010
• Icelandic Cup Winners: 2009

Former Players

• Oliver Risser Namibia, the Namibian national team
• New Zealand Che Bunce, a former professional with Sheffield United and Coventry City, in New Zealand, Ireland and Denmark, New Zealand national team
• Iceland Arnar Grétarsson, former legionnaire at the Glasgow Rangers and AEK Athens and in Belgium, 71 times the Icelandic national team.
• Trinidad and Tobago Errol McFarlane, former professional Trinidad and Tobago and the Lebanon national team of Trinidad and Tobago
• Iceland Viktor Unnar Illugason, moved in January 2007 from Keflavík to Reading FC to England
• Netherlands Prince Rajcomar, a former professional in the Netherlands, Dutch youth international