1998 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup

1998 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup

Deildarbikar karla
Country	Iceland
Teams	34
Champions	KR
Runners-up	Valur
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The 1998 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup was the third staging of the Icelandic Men's 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	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
FH	6	4	2	0	14	4	+10	14
Keflavík	6	4	1	1	17	6	+11	13
Grindavík	6	1	1	4	9	12	−3	4
Selfoss	6	1	0	5	5	23	−18	3

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Group B

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

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Group C

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

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Group D

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

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Group E

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

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Group F

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

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

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	0 - 0	ÍR
After extra time. ÍR won 5 – 4 on penalties
6	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
Haxhiajdini 60' Hinriksson 95'		Guðjohnsen 30' Juliusson 109'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Referee: Gylfi Thor Orrason

See also

• Icelandic Men's Football Cup
• Knattspyrnusamband Íslands - The Icelandic Football Association
• Icelandic First Division League 1998

References

• RSSSF Page - Deildabikar 1998