1998 Deildabikar

The Deildabikar 1998 was the 3rd staging of the Finnish League Cup. It featured 34 teams.

The competition started on 13 March 1998 and concluded on 26 August 1998 with KR beating Valur 6-5 on penalties in the final.

Details

• The 34 teams were divided into 5 groups of 6 teams and 1 group of 4 teams. In the 4 team group, each team played other teams twice. In the 6 team groups, each team plays one match with other teams in the group once. The top 2 teams from each group qualified for the 2nd round along with the best four 3rd placed teams from the groups with 6 teams.

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
FH	14	6	4	2	0	14	4	+10
Keflavík	13	6	4	1	1	17	6	+11
Grindavík	4	6	1	1	4	9	12	-3
Selfoss	3	6	1	0	5	5	23	-18

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
ÍBV	13	5	4	1	0	25	4	+21
Valur	13	5	4	1	0	21	6	+15
Fylkir	7	5	2	1	2	14	11	+3
Víðir	5	5	1	2	2	16	14	+2
Sindri	4	5	1	1	3	5	11	-6
Þrottur N.	0	5	0	0	5	3	38	-35

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Leiftur	12	5	4	0	1	18	3	+15
ÍR	11	5	3	2	0	14	4	+10
HK	9	5	3	0	2	10	11	-1
Þór Akureyri	7	5	2	1	2	7	4	+3
Njarðvík	3	5	1	0	4	2	17	-15
Fjölnir	1	5	0	1	4	3	15	-12

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Stjarnan	12	5	4	0	1	9	3	+6
KR	8	5	2	2	1	9	5	+4
Leiknir Reykjavík	7	5	2	1	2	10	8	+2
Afturelding	7	5	2	1	2	5	5	+0
KA	4	5	1	1	3	6	10	-4
KS	4	5	1	1	3	6	14	-8

Group E

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Breiðablik	12	5	4	0	1	25	7	+18
ÍA	12	5	4	0	1	18	5	+13
Þróttur R.	9	5	3	0	2	14	5	+9
Völsungur	6	5	2	0	3	7	12	-5
Dalvík	6	5	2	0	3	5	19	-14
Reynir Sandgerði	0	5	0	0	5	0	21	-21

Group F

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Tindastóll	12	5	4	0	1	10	8	+2
Fram	10	5	3	1	1	18	6	+12
Haukar	9	5	3	0	2	4	5	-1
Skallagrímur	7	5	2	1	2	14	9	+5
Víkingur Reykjavík	6	5	2	0	3	5	6	-1
Ægir	0	5	0	0	5	3	20	-17

Knockout stage

Second Round

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	ÍBV	6 – 2	HK
2	Tindastóll	0 – 1	KR
3	FH	2 – 1	Fylkir
4	Leiftur	2 – 2	Þróttur R.
After extra time. Leiftur won 4 – 3 on penalties
5	Breiðablik	–	ÍR
After extra time. ÍR won 5 – 4 on penalties
	Keflavík	0 – 1 (a.e.t.)	ÍA
7	Valur	1 – 0	Fram
8	Stjarnan	2 – 1	Haukar

Quarter-finals

1998-05-02	FH	3 – 1	ÍR
	Saevarsson Gardarsson Magnusson		Arnljotur Davidsson

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1998-05-02	Stjarnan	1 – 4	Valur
	Gunnarsson		Hreidarsson Stefansson Magnusson

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1998-05-02	Leiftur	1 – 1 (a.e.t.) 5 - 6 p	ÍA
	Ingimundarson		Gislason

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1999-05-04	ÍBV	2 – 3	KR
	Johannesson		Juliusson Jakobsson Benediktsson

Semi-finals

1998-05-05	FH	1 – 3	Valur
	Gestsson		Stefansson Magnusson Juliusson

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1998-05-07	KR	0 – 0 (a.e.t.) 4 - 3 p	ÍA

Final

1998-08-26	KR	2 – 2 (a.e.t.) 6 - 5 p	Valur	Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík Referee: Gylfi Thor Orrason
	Haxhiajdini  60' Hinriksson  95'		Guðjohnsen  30' Juliusson  109'

References

RSSSF Page - Deildabikar 1998

See also

• VISA-bikar - Icelandic National Cup
• Knattspyrnusamband Íslands - The Icelandic Football Association
• Icelandic First Division League 1998