Bjorninn
Wikipedia - Skautafélagið Björninn
Skautafélagið Björninn, also known as Björninn for short, is an Icelandic sports club, founded in 1990 and based in Reykjavík, Iceland. It began as a skating club that fielded ice hockey teams and included figure skating and curling programs; it eventually added football.
On 28 September 2018, the club's ice skating departments merged into Ungmennafélagið Fjölnir, which overtook all of the department's assets and debts.
History
History
The clubs men's ice hockey team played in the Icelandic Men's Hockey League from the 1991–92 season until 2018. It won the national championship in 2012 after beating Skautafélag Reykjavíkur 3–1 in the best-of-five finals series.
In the early 1990s, Björninn was the first team to invite American service members from nearby NAS Keflavik to play on their team. At the time, each team in the Icelandic League was allowed to put a maximum of 3 non-Icelandic players on their rosters. In 1994, Petty Officer Steve Mitchell, who also played for Björninn, started the first American military team in Iceland, the NATO North Stars. The team shared practice time with Björninn and played several teams in the Icelandic League in exhibitions.
Bjorninn won in 1981 de IJslandse beker en bereikte in 1982 de finale van de IJslandse beker. In 1997 werd Bjorninn kampioen van de 1. deild karla, de tweede klasse van het IJslandse voetbalsysteem. In 2003 degradeerde de club naar de 2. deild karla, maar promoveerde in 2004 weer naar de 1. deild karla. In 2008 degradeerde Bjorninn opnieuw naar de 2. deild karla, maar promoveerde in 2011 weer naar de 1. deild karla. In 2012 degradeerde de club opnieuw naar de 2. deild karla, maar promoveerde in 2014 weer naar de 1. deild karla.
De huidige trainer van Bjorninn is Ágúst Gylfason. Enkele bekende voormalige spelers van Bjorninn zijn:
* Þórður Guðjónsson
* Rúnar Kristinsson
* Sigurður Jónsson
* Gunnar Heiðar Þorvaldsson
* Arnór Guðjohnsen