Nickname(s) | Kvinnulandsliðið (Women's National Team) | ||
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Association | Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF) | ||
Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | ||
Head coach | Signe Pries Andersen | ||
Captain | Ásla Johannesen | ||
Most caps | Heidi Sevdal (82) | ||
Top scorer | Rannvá B. Andreasen (27) | ||
Home stadium | Tórsvøllur | ||
FIFA code | FRO | ||
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FIFA ranking | |||
Current | 110 (13 December 2024) [1] | ||
Highest | 60 (June 2009) | ||
Lowest | 113 (June 2024) | ||
First international | |||
Official Faroe Islands 0–2 Republic of Ireland (Toftir, Faroe Islands; 24 September 1995) Unofficial Iceland 6–0 Faroe Islands (Kópavogur, Iceland; 25 June 1986) | |||
Biggest win | |||
Faroe Islands 8–0 Andorra (Ħamrun, Malta; 6 April 2015) | |||
Biggest defeat | |||
Faroe Islands 0–13 Norway (Tórshavn, Faroe Islands; 8 October 2019) |
The Faroe Islands women's national football team represents the Faroe Islands in women's association football and is controlled by the Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF), the governing body of all football in the Faroe Islands. The FSF became a member of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) in 1988 and Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) in 1990. By population, it remains the fourth smallest member of UEFA, which encompasses the countries of Europe. The women's team played their first FIFA-sanctioned international match in 1995 and have never advanced to the finals of the FIFA Women's World Cup or UEFA Women's Championship. They took part in the Island Games in 2001, 2003 and 2005 and won all three tournaments, as well as appearing at the 2010 edition of the Algarve Cup. In the Faroe Islands, the team is known as the Kvinnulandsliðið.
The FSF was founded on 13 January 1979 [2] and a women's national league began play in 1985. [3] The first Faroese women's national team games took place in June 1986, with two defeats to Iceland. The matches, a 6–0 defeat at Kópavogsvöllur and a 2–0 defeat at Akranesvöllur, predate the Faroe Islands' membership of FIFA and UEFA but are listed as full internationals at both FIFA.com and the official website of the Football Association of Iceland (KSÍ). [4] [5]
The Faroe Islands joined FIFA on 2 July 1988 [2] and the male national team played its first official match—a 1–0 defeat against Iceland—on 24 August 1988. [6] Membership of UEFA followed on 18 April 1990 and the Faroe Islands' male team entered its first major international competition later that year: the qualifying rounds for the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship. [2]
A women's team was formed to take part in the 1997 UEFA Women's Championship qualification tournament, which began in September 1995. Páll Guðlaugsson was appointed as coach. The Faroe Islands were competing at class B, in a regionalised group alongside Belgium, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The group winners would not qualify for the final tournament but would play-off against a last placed team from A class for promotion to the higher grade. [7]
The Faroe Islands staged all their home games at the national stadium of the time, Svangaskarð in Toftir. On 24 September 1995 they lost their first ever home match 2–0 to Ireland. [8] The following month, another 2–0 defeat, to Belgium in Brussels, preceded a 7–1 loss in Scotland where Sólvá Joensen scored the team's first ever goal. [9] Two days later, on 25 October 1995, the Faroe Islands beat Wales 1–0 at Farrar Road in Bangor to record their first ever victory. Helga Ellingsgaard scored the decisive goal on 35 minutes, [10] while opposition coach Sue Lopez lamented her team's failure to convert any of their 20 shots at goal. [11]
The next match was a 3–1 defeat in Dublin, Ireland's third goal coming in the last minute. In 1996 the Faroe Islands finished their campaign with three home games, but lost them all. The first, on 18 May 1996, was a 9–0 defeat by group winners Belgium which remained the Faroe Islands' joint record defeat until 2019. Scotland and Wales departed Toftir with 3–0 and 1–0 victories, respectively, as the Faroe Islands finished bottom of the group with three points, having scored three goals and conceded 27.
The FSF scrapped their women's national team after the tournament, as they were unwilling to fund travel to away fixtures. They did enter competitions at youth level, which were not played on a home and away basis but were mini-tournaments staged in a single location to keep costs down. [12]
When the senior women's national team was relaunched in 2004 after an eight-year hiatus, their first match was a 2–1 friendly defeat to Ireland. Irish coach Noel King named an experimental team which lacked his leading players from Arsenal Ladies. [13] The game was staged in Klaksvík on 12 October 2004, the day before the nations' senior men's teams met at Lansdowne Road, Dublin.
In the next match, a return friendly with Ireland at the Oscar Traynor Centre in Dublin, Rannvá B. Andreasen put the Faroe Islands ahead after six minutes. Ireland hit back to win 2–1.
The Faroe Islands' first matches back in UEFA competition came in November 2006, at the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 qualifying series. At a preliminary round mini-tournament held in Strumica, Macedonia, Malena Josephsen's injury time goal in the first match was not enough to avert a 2–1 defeat to Wales. The team was eliminated after another defeat, 1–0 to Kazakhstan. In the final match the Faroe Islands beat hosts Macedonia 7–0 at Stadion Kukuš to record a record win which stood until 2015.
The Faroe Islands women's national football team plays their home matches on the Tórsvøllur.
Win Draw Lose Void or Postponement Fixture
22 February Visit Malta Women's Tournament 2024 | Malta | 2–0 | Faroe Islands | Paola, Malta |
18:00 | Report | Stadium: Tony Bezzina Stadium |
25 February Visit Malta Women's Tournament 2024 | Albania | 3–0 | Faroe Islands | Paola, Malta |
Report | Stadium: Tony Bezzina Stadium |
5 April Euro 2025 qualifying | Greece | 1–0 | Faroe Islands | Heraklion |
Report | Stadium: Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium Referee: Rita Vehapi (Kosovo) |
9 April Euro 2025 qualifying | Montenegro | 5–1 | Faroe Islands | Podgorica |
Report | Stadium: Podgorica City Stadium Referee: Emily Heaslip (England) |
31 May Euro 2025 qualifying | Faroe Islands | 4–0 | Andorra | Tórshavn |
17:45 (16:45 UTC+1) |
| Report | Stadium: Tórsvøllur Attendance: 507 Referee: Marisca Overtoom (Netherlands) |
4 June UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying – Group C3 | Faroe Islands | 0–2 | Greece | Tórshavn, Faroe Islands |
18:45 | Report | Stadium: Tórsvøllur Referee: Laura Mauricio (Switzerland) |
12 July Euro 2025 qualifying | Faroe Islands | 2–1 | Montenegro | Tórshavn |
17:45 (16:45 UTC+1) | Report | Stadium: Tórsvøllur |
16 July Euro 2025 qualifying | Andorra | 0–4 | Faroe Islands | Andorra la Vella |
19:00 | Report | Stadium: Estadi Nacional |
24 October 2024 Women's Baltic Cup | Latvia | 2–1 | Faroe Islands | Riga, Latvia |
19:00 | Miksone 28', 75' | Report | Ryan 57' | Stadium: Jānis Skredelis' Stadium Attendance: 247 Referee: Ugnė Šmitaitė (Lithuania) |
27 October 2024 Women's Baltic Cup | Lithuania | 1–2 | Faroe Islands | Riga, Latvia |
13:00 | Vaitukaitytė 25' | Report |
| Stadium: Jānis Skredelis' Stadium |
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Position | Name | Ref. |
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Head coach | Signe Pries Andersen | [14] |
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No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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23 | GK | Valborg Østerø | 6 August 2002 | 4 | 0 | B36 |
GK | Gunnvá Lutzen | 25.04.2005 | HB Tórshavn | |||
7 | DF | Ásla Johannesen (captain) | 9 May 1996 | 47 | 3 | Piteå |
3 | DF | Birita Ryan | 24 November 2002 | 28 | 0 | KÍ |
15 | DF | Tórunn Joensen | 27 September 1999 | 14 | 0 | KÍ |
8 | DF | Eyðvør Klakstein | 5 September 1995 | 47 | 1 | KÍ |
11 | DF | Sanna Savardal | 14 November 2001 | 22 | 1 | KÍ |
4 | DF | Lea Lisberg | 28 February 2002 | 15 | 0 | Víkingur |
21 | MF | Rúna Jacobsen | 5 February 1996 | 14 | 1 | HB |
5 | MF | Sunniva Willemoes | 12 September 2003 | 8 | 1 | HB |
22 | MF | Durita Hummeland | 21 March 1998 | 12 | 0 | KÍ |
MF | Malena Olsen | 19 May 2004 | 8 | 0 | KÍ | |
17 | MF | Tóra Mohr | 1 April 1999 | 14 | 1 | KÍ |
MF | Sara Lamhauge | 19 December 2000 | 22 | 0 | NSÍ | |
6 | MF | Heidi Sevdal | 6 March 1989 | 82 | 26 | NSÍ |
MF | Anna Katrina Mikkelsen | 20.04.2005 | Víkingur | |||
MF | Anna Brændstrup | 23 juillet 2005 | HB Køge | |||
10 | FW | Petra Hoydal | AaB | |||
10 | FW | Fridrikka Clementsen | 11 July 2003 | 7 | 0 | HB |
14 | FW | Mona Rasmusdóttir | 22 April 2001 | 18 | 1 | Víkingur |
13 | FW | Jensa Tórolvsdóttir | 8 March 2001 | 28 | 3 | Víkingur |
FW | Rakul Sørensen | 21/07/2005 | Víkingur |
Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club | Latest call-up |
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GK | Eyðgerð Mikkelsen | 20 February 2001 | 3 | 0 | Víkingur | v. Greece,4 June 2024 |
GK | Óluva Joensen | 21 April 2002 | 23 | 0 | KÍ | v. Andorra,16 July 2024 |
DF | Mirjam Huneck | 0 | v. Albania,25 February 2024 | |||
DF | Sára Poulsdóttir Á Líðarenda | 0 | v. Albania,25 February 2024 | |||
DF | Sarita Petersen | 0 | v. Azerbaijan,5 December 2023 | |||
MF | Margunn Lindholm | 0 | v. Albania,25 February 2024 | |||
MF | Maria Johansen | 0 | v. Albania,25 February 2024 | |||
MF | Lena Olsen | 0 | v. Azerbaijan,5 December 2023 | |||
MF | Rúna Olsen | 0 | v. Azerbaijan,5 December 2023 | |||
MF | Julia Mortensen | NSÍ Runavík | v. Andorra,16 July 2024 | |||
FW | Sunniva Dal Christiansen | v. Albania,25 February 2024 | ||||
MF | Margit Magnusdottir | 0 | v. Azerbaijan,5 December 2023 | |||
FW | Rebekka Fjallsá Benbakoura | 5 January 1999 | 17 | 0 | Kastoria GPO | v. Andorra,16 July 2024 |
Source: [22]
Most capped players
| Top goalscorers
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On 28 November 2012 two of the players of the Faroe Islands women's national team set a world record. For the first time ever a parent and child played together in a football match for their country. [23] Bára Skaale Klakkstein has played for many years now on the national team, Eyðvør has played for the U17 and U19 national teams, but on 28 November 2012 both mother and daughter played together in a friendly match against Luxembourg. The Faroe Islands won 6–0. Eyðvør was born on 5 September 1995 and was 17 years old when playing this match which was her first for the national team. The mother, Bára Skaale Klakkstein, was born on 24 March 1973 [24] and was 39 years old, when she played the match against Luxembourg. Mother and daughter have played together on the KÍ women's best team since 2010. [25]
FIFA Women's World Cup record | Qualification record | |||||||||||||||
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Year | Result | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | |
1991 to 2011 | Did not enter | Did not participate | ||||||||||||||
2015 | Did not qualify | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 45 | −36 | ||||||||
2019 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 56 | −46 | |||||||||
2023 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 56 | −54 | |||||||||
2027 | To be determined | To be determined | ||||||||||||||
Total | — | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 32 | 5 | 3 | 24 | 21 | 157 | −136 |
UEFA Women's Championship record | Qualifying record | |||||||||||||||||
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Year | Result | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | P/R | Rnk | |
1984 to 1995 | Did not enter | Did not participate | ||||||||||||||||
1997 | Did not qualify | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 27 | −24 | – | |||||||||
2001 | Did not enter | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||||
2005 | ||||||||||||||||||
2009 | Did not qualify | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 3 | +5 | – | |||||||||
2013 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||
2017 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 4 | +8 | |||||||||||
2022 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 42 | −41 | |||||||||||
2025 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 9 | +2 | [a] | 43rd | |||||||||
2029 | To be determined | To be determined | ||||||||||||||||
Total | — | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 37 | 87 | −50 | 43rd |
UEFA Women's Nations League record | ||||||||||||
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Year | League | Group | Pos | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | P/R | Rnk | |
2023–24 | C | 3 | 4th | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 50th | ||
2025 | C | 1 | To be determined | |||||||||
Total | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 50th |
Promoted at end of season | |
No movement at end of season | |
Relegated at end of season | |
* | Participated in promotion/relegation play-offs |
Island Games record | |||||||
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Year | Result | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA |
2001 | Champions | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 4 |
2003 | Champions | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 2 |
2005 | Champions | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 2 |
2007 to present | Did not enter | ||||||
TOTAL | 3 Titles | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 106 | 8 |
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