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The 2024 Besta deild karla was the 113th season of top-flight Icelandic Football. It was the third season following the league's rebrand as Besta deild karla . [ 1 ]
The Icelandic football league system is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in Iceland. [1] As of 2013 a fifth level was added to the previous men's format of four levels. [2] As of 2019 there are 79 participating men's teams and 27 women's teams in the football league.
The Besta deild karla (lit. ' Men's Best Division ') is the top level men's football league in Iceland. [2] The competition was founded in 1912 as the Icelandic Championship. [3]
The 2023 Besta deild karla was the 112th season of top-flight Icelandic football.It was the second season of the league after it was rebranded as Besta deild karla. [1]The winners (Víkingur Reykjavík) qualified for the 2024–25 Champions League first qualifying round.
The 2024 Besta deild kvenna was the 53rd edition of the Icelandic top-level women's football league. The 2024 season has opened on 21 April 2024. [1] The regular season concluded on 25 August 2024 with the championship round running until 5 October 2024. Breiðablik won the 2024 season with a narrow 1 point lead over Valur.
Football is the most popular sport in Iceland. [1] [2] [3] Iceland hosted the U-18 European Championship in 1997, but an Icelandic national team has qualified for the final competition of a major tournament only five times—three times by the women's national team at UEFA Women's Euro in 2009, 2013 and 2017, and twice by the men's team at UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
1. deild karla, known as Lengjudeild karla (The Lengja League) for sponsorship reasons, is an association football league in Iceland. It is the second highest professional level in the Icelandic football league system. The league was founded in 1955 and current champions are ÍA.
The association was founded in 1960. The men's division played in 1980 in the first Icelandic League (then Landsbankadeild) and managed the 2000 promotion again to the highest Icelandic league.