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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.
The team became slightly famous when they beat 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. oktober 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 unlikly 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".
[edit] Notable players
[edit] Current team squad
Provisional as of the winter transfer window, 2005-2006
| No. |
|
Position |
Player |
| 1 |
 |
GK |
Daði Lárusson |
| 2 |
|
DF |
Auðun Helgason |
| 3 |
 |
DF |
Peter Matzen |
| 4 |
|
DF |
Tommy Fredsgaard Nielsen |
| 5 |
|
DF |
Freyr Bjarnason |
| 6 |
|
MF |
Ásgeir Gunnar Ásgeirsson |
| 7 |
|
MF |
Davíð Þór Viðarsson |
| 8 |
|
MF |
Baldur Bett |
| 9 |
|
FW |
Tryggvi Guðmundsson |
| 10 |
|
MF |
Sigurvin Ólafsson |
| 11 |
|
FW |
Allan Dyring |
| 12 |
|
GK |
Róbert Örn Óskarsson |
| 13 |
|
MF |
Hjalti Brynjarsson |
| 14 |
|
DF |
Guðmundur Sævarsson |
|
|
| No. |
|
Position |
Player |
| 16 |
|
FW |
Pétur Óskar Sigurðsson |
| 17 |
|
FW |
Atli Viðar Björnsson |
| 18 |
|
MF |
Hermann Albertsson |
| 19 |
|
FW |
Ólafur Páll Snorrason |
| 20 |
|
DF |
Sverrir Garðarsson |
| 21 |
|
FW |
Atli Guðnason |
| 22 |
|
FW |
Matthías Vilhjálmsson |
| 23 |
|
DF |
Heimir Snær Guðmundsson |
| 24 |
|
MF |
Haukur Ólafsson |
| 25 |
|
MF |
Árni Freyr Guðnason |
| 26 |
|
FW |
Tómas Leifsson |
| 27 |
|
MF |
Hjörtur Logi Valgarðsson |
| 28 |
|
DF |
Pétur Viðarsson |
| 30 |
 |
FW |
André Shei Lindbæk |
| 31 |
|
DF |
Dennis Siim |
|
[edit] External links
Breiðablik • 
FH Hafnarfjörður • 
Fram • 
Fylkir • 
Keflavík • 
HK
ÍA Akranes • 
KR Reykjavík • 
Valur • 
Víkingur Reykjavík
