Deildabikar

Deildabikar

Founded	1996
Region	Iceland
Number of teams	24
Current champions	Valur (2nd title)
Most successful club	Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar (5 titles)
2011 Deildabikar

The Deildabikar, also known as the Icelandic League Cup is a pre-season professional football competition in Iceland. It is also considered the third most important competition in Icelandic football.

The pre-season tournament involves the top 24 clubs in Iceland from the previous season. It generally takes place between February and May. The number of teams in the 2008 edition rose from 16 to 24.

The 24 teams are divided into three pools of eight teams. Each team meets each other one during the pool stage. The final positions of the group are determined after these 7 games are played. The top two of each group automatically gain entry to the next stage in the competition, and the best 2 teams in third place join them in the quarter final round.

From the quarter final round it is a purely knockout competition where ties take place over 1-leg only, if a tie is not decided in the 90 minutes then penalty kicks are taken to decide the game.

Since 2001, two other pre-season tournaments have been arranged in the same format for teams lower down in the Icelandic football league ladder.

Winners

Club	#	Year(s)
FH	5	2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009
KR	4	1998, 2001, 2005, 2010
ÍA	3	1996, 1999, 2003
Valur	2	2008, 2011
Grindavík	1	2000
ÍBV	1	1997

Finals

Year	Winner	Score	Finalist
1996	ÍA	3-1 *	Breiðablik
1997	ÍBV	3-2 *	Valur
1998	KR	2-2 **(6-5)	Valur
1999	ÍA	1-0	Fylkir
2000	Grindavík	4-0	Valur
2001	KR	0-0 **(5-3)	FH
2002	FH	2-2 **(4-3)	Fylkir
2003	ÍA	1-1 **(4-2)	Keflavik
2004	FH	2-1	KR
2005	KR	3-2	Þróttur
2006	FH	3-2	Keflavik
2007	FH	3-2 *	Valur
2008	Valur	4-1	Fram
2009	FH	3-0	Breiðablik
2010	KR	2-1	Breiðablik
2011	Valur	3-1 *	Fylkir

* - After Extra Time
** - Penalties

External links

• http://www.ksi.is/
• http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/ijsleagcuphist.html