11 facts about the champion of the Faroe Islands, who will definitely play in the European Cup group
Faroese Klaksvik is the main sensation of qualifying for the European Cup season 2023/2024. The modest club, representing a village of just over 5,000 people, has already gone through two rounds of Champions League qualification, knocking out Hungary’s Ferencváros and Sweden’s Hacken, and guaranteed itself at least a Conference League group spot for the first time in Faroese football history.
Klaksvik is also close to reaching the playoffs: in the first match of the third round of selection, the team of the Norwegian specialist Magne Hoseth, for whom this is the first independent coaching job, beat Molde (2:1). We tell you a few facts that will make you fall in love with this modest, but proud and titled club.
To begin with, a small remark: Klaksvik was close to a loud sensation in Europe last season as well. Then, in the first match of the first round of the Champions League qualification, the team lost to Boude-Glimt away 0:3, but almost took revenge at home – 3:1. On this performance of the club in the European Cup season ended. Now – to the facts.
One match – The championship of the Faroe Islands is played according to the spring / autumn system – Klaksvik lost this season, losing in the 1/8 finals of the B-36 country Cup. In total, the club has 18 wins, four draws and one loss in 23 matches played.
Two champions – Ferencváros and Hacken – knocked Klaksvik out of the tournament in this Champions League draw.
Two Klaksvik won three draws in five Champions League qualifying matches.
Two season in a row Klaksvik wins the championship of the Faroe Islands and the Super Cup of the country.
PoleKlaksvik’s 31-year-old striker Arnie Fredriksberg scored 31 goals in five Champions League qualifying matches. Moreover, the striker scored three doubles to three different opponents – Ferencvaros, Hecken and Melda.
15 matches Klaksvik has not lost in a row in all tournaments: 12 wins and three draws.
16 matches out of 16 won Klaksvik in the 2023 national championship. Note that since the 1942/1943 season and Dresden, which participated in the championship of Nazi Germany, not a single club in the history of European football has been able to win all the matches in the championship of its country. Klaksvik is nine matches away from the historical record.
20 times Klaksvik became the champion of the Faroe Islands, second only to HB Torshavn, who has 23 titles.
22 local football players out of 31 in the club’s application for the Champions League
2.77 million euros – the total cost of the composition of Klaksvik
5,024 people, according to the latest data, is the population of the town of Klaksvik, the second largest settlement in the Faroe Islands. The capacity of the club’s home stadium is 2,500 people.
Source: Sportarena
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