B36 Tórshavn

B36 Tórshavn

Full name	Bóltfelagið 1936
Nickname(s)	B36 Hvítir (Whites)
Founded	28 March 1936
Ground	Gundadalur Stadium, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
Ground Capacity	5,000
Chairman	Heiðrikur Christiansen
Manager	Sámal Erik Hentze
League	Faroe Islands Premier League
2013	3rd
Home colours Away colours

B36 Tórshavn (Faroese: Bóltfelagið 1936, in English: Football Club 1936) or F.C. Tórshavn is a Faroese football club, based in the capital of the country, Tórshavn. Home games are played at the Gundadalur Stadium and they compete in the Faroe Islands Premier League.

History

B36 players (in white) in a match against FC Suðuroy in Vodafonedeildin, 2010. Number 23 is Hjalgrím Elttør, number 11 is Christian Mouritsen.

B36 in their new away colours against TB Tvøroyri on 15 April 2012. The player is Símun Hansen.

B36 Tórshavn was founded on 28 March 1936. B36 started to play football matches in 1935, but were officially founded in 1936. B36 has an arch rival, HB Tórshavn, which was founded in 1904, the first club in Tórshavn.

But the rivalry has a limit, when B36 Tórshavn were going to publish an official book in 1997, they used HB Tórshavn's book as the main source. B36 Tórshavn's first documents got lost, that's why HB Tórshavn's book had to be used. When B36 was founded, they battled with rivals HB Tórshavn for the rights to the Gundadalur Stadium, but the teams played a lot of matches against each other that year.

B36 Tórshavn had a hard time by getting accepted by the main newspaper in the Faroe Islands, but after half a year B36 Tórshavn had achieved some good results, that resulted in that journalists had no other option but to accept B36 Tórshavn. Today, B36 Tórshavn is one of the biggest football clubs in the Faroe Islands.

Clubs in the Faroe Islands first took part in European competitions in 1992, after the Faroe Islands Football Association became a member of UEFA in 1990. B36 were drawn against Avenir Beggen in the Cup winners Cup Qualifying round in 1992. They went close but didn't make it through to the first round after a 1-0 loss and a 1-1 at home.

In 2005/06 the team reached the second round in the UEFA Cup after defeating ÍBV Vestmannaeyar of Iceland 3-2 on aggregate. In the second round they narrowly lost to Danish Superliga-club FC Midtjylland 1-2 in the away leg and drew 2-2 at home. The team reached the second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League in 2006/07 after defeating Birkirkara FC of Malta 5-2 on aggregate and were eliminated in second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League, losing both matches to Fenerbahçe 4-0 and 5-0.

Current squad

As of October 7 2013

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Tórður Thomsen 3 DF Símun Joensen 4 MF Robert Heðin Brockie 6 FW Heini í Skorini 7 MF Súni Olsen 8 FW Gilli Sørensen [1] 9 FW Jákup á Borg (captain) 10 MF Róaldur Jakobsen 11 FW Łukasz Cieślewicz 12 MF Evrard Blé [2] 13 FW Patrick Larsen

No. Position Player 14 MF Høgni Midjord 15 MF Niels Joensen 17 MF Hørður Askham 18 MF Benjamin Heinesen 20 DF Høgni Eysturoy 21 GK Jákup Højgaard 22 DF Karl Martin Danielsen 23 MF Rasmus Dan Sørensen 24 GK Thomas Knudsen 30 FW Adeshina Lawal

Honours

• Faroe Islands Premier League (9):
  • 1946, 1948, 1950, 1959, 1962, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2011
• Faroe Islands Cup (5):
  • 1965, 1991, 2001, 2003, 2006. Runners up 9 times.
• Atlantic Cup (1)
  • 2006
• Faroe Islands Super Cup (1):
  • 2007

UEFA club competition record

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Results
1992–93	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Q	Avenir Beggen	0–1, 1–1
1997	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group 5	Genk	0–5
			Stabæk	0–5
			Dynamo Moskva	0–1
			Panachaiki	2–4
1998–99	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Beitar Jerusalem	1–4, 0–1
1999–2000	UEFA Cup	QR	Ankaragücü	0–1, 0–1
2000–01	UEFA Cup	QR	AB	0–8, 0–1
2002–03	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Torpedo Kutaisi	2–5, 0–1
2004–05	UEFA Cup	1Q	Liepājas Metalurgs	1–3, 1–8
2005–06	UEFA Cup	1Q	ÍBV	1–1, 2–1
		2Q	Midtjylland	1–2, 2–2
2006–07	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Birkirkara	3–0, 2–2
		2Q	Fenerbahçe	0–4, 0–5
2007–08	UEFA Cup	1Q	Ekranas	1–3, 2–3
2008–09	UEFA Cup	1Q	Brøndby	0–1, 0–2
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Olimpi Rustavi	0–2, 0–2
2012–13	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Linfield	0–0, 0–0 (3–4p)
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	1Q	TBD

Home results in bold.

Managers

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to B36 Tórshavn.

• Official website (Faroese)