The Icelandic Men's Football League Cup (Icelandic: Deildarbikar karla), also known as the Lengjubikar karla for sponsorship reasons, is a pre-season professional football competition in Iceland. It is considered the third most important competition in Icelandic football.
The pre-season tournament involves the top 22 clubs in Iceland from the previous season and the two clubs promoted from 2. deild, for a total of the 24 teams that will comprise the top two divisions in Iceland the following season. It generally takes place between February and May. The number of teams in the 2008 edition rose from 16 to 24.
Format The 24 teams are divided into four pools of six teams. Each team meets each other once during the pool stage. The final positions of the group are determined after these 5 games are played. The top two of each group automatically gain entry to the next stage in the competition.
From the quarter final round it is a purely knockout competition where ties take place over 1-leg only. If a tie is not decided in 90 minutes, penalty kicks are taken to decide the game.
Since 2001, two other pre-season tournaments have been arranged in the same format for teams lower down in the Icelandic football league ladder.
Finals YearWinnerScoreRunner-up1996 ÍA 3–1 (aet) Breiðablik1997 ÍBV 3–2 (aet) Valur1998 KR 2–2 (6–5p) Valur1999 ÍA 1–0 Fylkir2000 Grindavík 4–0 Valur2001 KR 0–0 (5–3p) FH2002 FH 2–2 (4–3p) Fylkir2003 ÍA 1–1 (4–2p) Keflavik2004 FH 2–1 KR2005 KR 3–2 Þróttur2006 FH 3–2 Keflavik2007 FH 3–2 (aet) Valur2008 Valur 4–1 Fram2009 FH 3–0 Breiðablik2010 KR 2–1 Breiðablik2011 Valur 3–1 (aet) Fylkir2012 KR 1–0 Fram2013 Breiðablik 3–2 Valur2014 FH 4–1 Breiðablik2015 Breiðablik 1−0 KA2016 KR 2−0 Víkingur R.2017 KR 4–0 Grindavík2018 Valur 4–2 Grindavík2019 KR 2–1 ÍA2020 Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic2021 Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic2022 FH 2–1 Víkingur R. 2023 Valur 1–1 (4-3 p) KA2024 Breiðablik 4–1 ÍA2025 Valur 3–2 Fylkir
Performance by club Club Titles Runners-up Winning Year(s) KR 8 1 1998, 2001, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2019 FH 7 1 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2022 Valur 5 5 2008, 2011, 2018, 2023, 2025 Breiðablik 3 4 2013, 2015, 2024 ÍA 3 2 1996, 1999, 2003 Grindavík 1 2 2000 ÍBV 1 0 1997 Fylkir 0 4 — Keflavík 0 2 — Fram 0 2 — Víkingur R. 0 2 — KA 0 2 — Þróttur 0 1 —
External links https://web.archive.org/web/20090415071050/http://ksi.is/ RSSSF League history IcelandFootball.net - League cup results. https://www.flashscore.com/football/iceland/league-cup-2022/#/Ee7HBtOQ/table/overall https://www.flashscore.com/match/OtjvDob5/#/match-summary/match-summary