2008 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup

2008 Deildabikar

Tournament details
Country	Iceland
Teams	24
Final positions
Champions	Valur
Runner-up	Fram

The 2008 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup was the 13th season of the Icelandic Men's League Cup, a pre-season professional football competition in Iceland. The competition started on 22 February 2008 and concluded on 1 May 2008. Valur beat Fram 4–1 in the final to win their first League Cup title.

The 24 teams were divided into 4 groups of 6 teams. Every team played every other team of its group once, either home or away. Top 2 teams from each group qualified for the quarter-finals.

Group stage

The games were played from 22 February to 15 April 2008.

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		VAL	BRE	GRI	ÍBV	SEL	VÓL
1	Valur	5	5	0	0	19	5	+14	15			2–1		6–0		3–1
2	Breiðablik	5	4	0	1	19	4	+15	12						4–1	2–0
3	Grindavík	5	2	1	2	7	11	−4	7		1–4	1–5		1–0
4	ÍBV	5	1	1	3	6	19	−13	4			0–7			4–3
5	Selfoss	5	0	2	3	8	14	−6	2		2–4		1–1
6	Víkingur Ólafsvík	5	0	2	3	5	11	−6	2				1–3	2–2	1–1

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		KR	FH	LRE	FJÖ	VÍK	ÞÓR
1	KR	5	5	0	0	16	4	+12	15			2–0			4–0
2	FH	5	4	0	1	19	5	+14	12				7–1	4–0	5–0
3	Leiknir R.	5	2	1	2	9	15	−6	7		1–3			4–3		1–1
4	Fjölnir	5	1	1	3	11	15	−4	4		2–3				1–1
5	Víkingur Reykjavík	5	1	1	3	6	14	−8	4				1–2			4–2
6	Þór A.	5	0	1	4	9	17	−8	1		1–4	2–3		3–5

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		FRA	ÍA	KAK	ÞRÓ	HAU	KSL
1	Fram	5	4	1	0	10	2	+8	13			2–1			4–0
2	ÍA	5	4	0	1	9	4	+5	12				2–1		2–0	2–0
3	KA	5	2	1	2	13	9	+4	7		1–1			1–0		7–1
4	Þróttur Reykjavík	5	2	0	3	7	5	+2	6		0–1	1–2			3–0
5	Haukar	5	2	0	3	7	13	−6	6				5–3			2–1
6	KS/Leiftur	5	0	0	5	3	16	−13	0		0–2			1–3

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		HK	KEF	FYL	KFF	NJA	STJ
1	HK	5	4	1	0	9	4	+5	13				1–0		1–0
2	Keflavík	5	3	0	2	12	10	+2	9		2–4					3–1
3	Fylkir	5	2	1	2	9	8	+1	7			3–4			0–0	3–1
4	Fjarðabyggð	5	1	3	1	8	8	0	6		1–1	2–1	2–3
5	Njarðvík	5	1	2	2	4	5	−1	5			0–2		1–1
6	Stjarnan	5	0	1	4	6	13	−7	1		1–2			2–2	1–3

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

2008-04-18

Valur	2 – 0	Keflavík
Pálmason 20' Mortensen 79'

Vodafonevöllurinn, Reykjavík

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2008-04-18

HK	1 – 1 (aet)	Breiðablik
Þórsson 16'		Grétarsson 74'
Penalties
	3 – 5

Kópavogsvöllur, Kópavogur

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2008-04-19

Fram	2 – 1	FH
McShane 16' H. Þórarinsson 56'		Vilhjálmsson 68'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

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2008-04-19

KR	0 – 3	ÍA
		Guðjónsson 1' Sigurðarson 44' 77' (og)

KR-völlur, Reykjavík

Semi-finals

2008-04-24

Valur	5 – 2	ÍA
Pálmason 51' (p) 62' Mortensen 70' 84' Hjaltason 90'		Guðjónsson 18' (p) Magnússon 69'

Vodafonevöllurinn, Reykjavík

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2008-04-24

Fram	2 – 2 (aet)	Breiðablik
Grímsson 102' Júlíusson 114'		Rajcomar 95' 111' (p)
Penalties
	4 – 2

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Final

2008-05-01

Valur	4 – 1	Fram
Mortensen 4' 29' A. S. Þórarinsson 50' Pálmason 90'		H. Þórarinsson 33' (p)

Kópavogsvöllur, Kópavogur]

Referee: Eyjolfur M. Kristinsson

VALUR:
GK		Kjartan Sturluson
DF		Birkir Már Sævarsson
DF		Gunnar Einarsson
DF		Atli Sveinn Þórarinsson
DF		Bjarni Ólafur Eiríksson
DF		Rene Skovgaard Carlsen
MF		Pálmi Rafn Pálmason
MF		Baldur Bett
FW		Daníel Hjaltason		82'
FW		Guðmundur Benediktsson		68'
FW		Dennis Bo Mortensen
Substitutes:
MF		Sigurbjörn Örn Hreiðarsson		82'
FW		Hafþór Ægir Vilhjálmsson		68'
Manager:
Willum Þór Þórsson

FRAM:
GK		Hannes Þór Halldórsson
DF		Óðinn Árnason
DF		Reynir Leósson
DF		Sam Tillen
MF		Daði Guðmundsson
MF		Paul McShane		89'
MF		Halldór Hermann Jónsson
FW		Heiðar Geir Júlíusson
FW		Grímur Björn Grímsson		38'
FW		Hjálmar Þórarinsson
FW		Ívar Björnsson		81'
Substitutes:
MF		Jón Orri Ólafsson		38'
FW		Guðmundur Magnússon		81'
DF		Kristinn Ingi Halldórsson		89'
Manager:
Þorvaldur Örlygsson

Top goalscorers

10 goals

• Tryggvi Guðmundsson (FH)

7 goals

• Dennis Bo Mortensen (Valur)

6 goals

• Almarr Ormarsson (KA)
• Helgi Sigurðsson (Valur)

5 goals

• Prince Rajcomar (Breiðablik)
• Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa (KR)
• Gudjon Baldvinsson (KR)
• Daníel Hjaltason (Valur)
• Pálmi Rafn Pálmason (Valur)

4 goals

• Andri Steinn Birgisson (Grindavík)
• Patrik Redo (Keflavík)
• Alfred Elias Johannsson (Víkingur Ólafsvík)

External links

• Deildabikar on rsssf.com