VB Vágur is a Faroese handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

 club. VB is short for Vágs Bóltfelag. It started as a football club, which was founded in 1905, but later the sport handball became a part of the club. The handball club is based in Vágur

Vágur

Vágur meaning Bay is a town on the Faroe Islands of Suðuroy, it is situated on the east coast of the island on the Vágsfjørður fjord, and dates from the fourteenth century. Expansion has meant that the nearby town of Nes is now a suburb of Vágur...

 in Suduroy. They play their home matches in the sports hall, Vágshøll on Eiðinum in Vágur

Vágur

Vágur meaning Bay is a town on the Faroe Islands of Suðuroy, it is situated on the east coast of the island on the Vágsfjørður fjord, and dates from the fourteenth century. Expansion has meant that the nearby town of Nes is now a suburb of Vágur...

. The football club is now known as FC Suðuroy

FC Suðuroy

FC Suðuroy is a Faroese Football club, which was founded in January 2010 and consists currently of the former clubs VB Vágur and SÍ Sumba , which merged in 2005 to form VB/Sumba...

.

Women's handball

VB Vágur (handball) was earlier a handball club for men and women. But since the football competition was changed, so it now starts earlier and ends later, it is not possible anymore for the same person to play both handball and football. So now the handball in Vágur is only for women and football is mostly for the men, in the best divisions anyway. The population is only 1400, there are not enough people to get good teams in both sports for both genders.

Honours for VB Vágur (Handball, Women)

VB Vágur Handball team has won the Faroese Championships three times: 1950, 2003 and 2005.

Foreign players

Over the last decade it has become normal for Faroese handball clubs as well football clubs, to import foreign players in order to improve the team. This is also the fact regarding VB. In 2004 the Football club signed 22 year old Lithuanian International

Lithuania national football team

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, Mindaugas Grigalevicius

Mindaugas Grigalevicius

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. In 1996 Tomislav Sivić became player/manager for the football team, when he first came to Faroe Islands. The team was coached by another young foreign player/manager, Krzysztof Popczyński

Krzysztof Popczyński

Krzysztof Popczyński is a former Polish footballer and now a coach, since July 2008 has been head coach of Aarhus Fremad....

, from 1998 to 2001. Most of the foreign players who played for VB were from Eastern Europe, as well as some from Denmark, Iceland and Africa. Although like other football clubs in the Faroe Islands, the large majority of players in the squad were Faroese.

In 2010 the Handball team made an agreement with three players from Lithuania

Lithuania

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The football club

As mentioned above, VB was founded in 1905. 90 years later, the club merged with Sumba to form Sumba/VB, although the merger only lasted a single season. 10 years later, in 2005, there was a second merger between VB Vágur and Sumba, and formed VB/Sumba, which later was changed it's name to FC Suðuroy

FC Suðuroy

FC Suðuroy is a Faroese Football club, which was founded in January 2010 and consists currently of the former clubs VB Vágur and SÍ Sumba , which merged in 2005 to form VB/Sumba...

. Other divisions of FC Suðuroy play some of their home games in Sumba

Sumba, Faroe Islands

Sumba is the southernmost place of the Faroe Islands on the island of Suðuroy. It is located in the Sumbiar municipality.The municipality has 385 inhabitants. 258 of these people are living in Sumba. The other villages in the Municipality of Sumba are: Lopra , Akrar , Víkarbyrgi .Sumba is known for...

 at the Krossi Stadium.

Achievements

• Faroe Islands Premier League Football
  Faroe Islands Premier League Football
  The Faroe Islands Premier League, the top division of football in the Faroe Islands, was founded in 1942. It is organised by the Faroe Islands Football Association. The league has been known as Vodafonedeildin since February 2009 for sponsorship reasons....
  
  : 1
  • 2000

• Faroe Islands Cup
  Faroe Islands Cup
  The Faroe Islands Cup is the main football cup competition in Faroe Islands. The first edition was played in 1955.-Finals:List of finals:-External links:**...
  
  : 1
  • 1974

VB Vágur football team in Europe

• 1Q = 1st Qualifying Round

Season	Competition	Round		Club	1st leg	2nd leg
2001/02 UEFA Champions League 2001-02 The 2001–02 UEFA Champions League was the tenth season of UEFA's premier club football tournament, the UEFA Champions League, since its rebranding from the European Cup in 1992. The tournament was won by Real Madrid, who beat Bayer Leverkusen in the final to claim their ninth European Cup title...	Champions League UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...	1Q		Slavia Mozyr	0-0	0-5

Extern Links

• FCSuduroy.com The current website of FC Suðuroy
• HSF.fo, The Faroe Islands Handball Association