Faroe Islands women's national football team

This article is about the women's team. For the men's team, see Faroe Islands national football team.

The Faroe Islands women's national football team represents the Faroe Islands in women's association football and is controlled by the Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF), the governing body of all football in the Faroe Islands. The FSF became a member of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) in 1988 and Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) in 1990. By population, it remains the fourth smallest member of UEFA, which encompasses the countries of Europe. The women's team played their first FIFA-sanctioned international match in 1995 and have never advanced to the finals of the FIFA Women's World Cup or UEFA Women's Championship. They took part in the Island Games in 2001, 2003 and 2005 and won all three tournaments, as well as appearing at the 2010 edition of the Algarve Cup. In the Faroe Islands, the team is known as the Kvinnulandsliðið.

Faroe Islands

Nickname(s)	Kvinnulandsliðið (Women's National Team)
Association	Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF)
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Pætur Clementsen
Captain	Ásla Johannesen
Most caps	Heidi Sevdal (96)
Top scorer	Heidi Sevdal (31)
Home stadium	Tórsvøllur
FIFA code	FRO
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	105 3 (7 August 2025)[1]
Highest	60 (June 2009)
Lowest	113 (June 2024)
First international
Official  Faroe Islands 0–2 Republic of Ireland  (Toftir, Faroe Islands; 24 September 1995) Unofficial  Iceland 6–0 Faroe Islands  (Kópavogur, Iceland; 25 June 1986)
Biggest win
Faroe Islands 8–0 Andorra  (Ħamrun, Malta; 6 April 2015)
Biggest defeat
Faroe Islands 0–13 Norway  (Tórshavn, Faroe Islands; 8 October 2019)

History

Faroe Islands national team in 2013

The FSF was founded on 13 January 1979^[2] and a women's national league began play in 1985.^[3] The first Faroese women's national team games took place in June 1986, with two defeats to Iceland. The matches, a 6–0 defeat at Kópavogsvöllur and a 2–0 defeat at Akranesvöllur, predate the Faroe Islands' membership of FIFA and UEFA but are listed as full internationals at both FIFA.com and the official website of the Football Association of Iceland (KSÍ).^[4][5]

The Faroe Islands joined FIFA on 2 July 1988^[2] and the male national team played its first official match—a 1–0 defeat against Iceland—on 24 August 1988.^[6] Membership of UEFA followed on 18 April 1990 and the Faroe Islands' male team entered its first major international competition later that year: the qualifying rounds for the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship.^[2]

A women's team was formed to take part in the 1997 UEFA Women's Championship qualification tournament, which began in September 1995. Páll Guðlaugsson was appointed as coach. The Faroe Islands were competing at class B, in a regionalised group alongside Belgium, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The group winners would not qualify for the final tournament but would play-off against a last placed team from A class for promotion to the higher grade.^[7]

The Faroe Islands staged all their home games at the national stadium of the time, Svangaskarð in Toftir. On 24 September 1995 they lost their first ever home match 2–0 to Ireland.^[8] The following month, another 2–0 defeat, to Belgium in Brussels, preceded a 7–1 loss in Scotland where Sólvá Joensen scored the team's first ever goal.^[9] Two days later, on 25 October 1995, the Faroe Islands beat Wales 1–0 at Farrar Road in Bangor to record their first ever victory. Helga Ellingsgaard scored the decisive goal on 35 minutes,^[10] while opposition coach Sue Lopez lamented her team's failure to convert any of their 20 shots at goal.^[11]

The next match was a 3–1 defeat in Dublin, Ireland's third goal coming in the last minute. In 1996 the Faroe Islands finished their campaign with three home games, but lost them all. The first, on 18 May 1996, was a 9–0 defeat by group winners Belgium which remained the Faroe Islands' joint record defeat until 2019. Scotland and Wales departed Toftir with 3–0 and 1–0 victories, respectively, as the Faroe Islands finished bottom of the group with three points, having scored three goals and conceded 27.

The FSF scrapped their women's national team after the tournament, as they were unwilling to fund travel to away fixtures. They did enter competitions at youth level, which were not played on a home and away basis but were mini-tournaments staged in a single location to keep costs down.^[12]

When the senior women's national team was relaunched in 2004 after an eight-year hiatus, their first match was a 2–1 friendly defeat to Ireland. Irish coach Noel King named an experimental team which lacked his leading players from Arsenal Ladies.^[13] The game was staged in Klaksvík on 12 October 2004, the day before the nations' senior men's teams met at Lansdowne Road, Dublin.

In the next match, a return friendly with Ireland at the Oscar Traynor Centre in Dublin, Rannvá B. Andreasen put the Faroe Islands ahead after six minutes. Ireland hit back to win 2–1.

The Faroe Islands' first matches back in UEFA competition came in November 2006, at the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 qualifying series. At a preliminary round mini-tournament held in Strumica, Macedonia, Malena Josephsen's injury time goal in the first match was not enough to avert a 2–1 defeat to Wales. The team was eliminated after another defeat, 1–0 to Kazakhstan. In the final match the Faroe Islands beat hosts Macedonia 7–0 at Stadion Kukuš to record a record win which stood until 2015.

Team image

Home stadium

The Faroe Islands women's national football team plays their home matches on the Tórsvøllur.

Results and fixtures

• The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Legend

  Win   Draw   Lose   Void or Postponement   Fixture

2024

Malta  v  Faroe Islands

22 February Visit Malta Women's Tournament 2024	Malta	2–0	Faroe Islands	Paola, Malta
18:00	Sultana 55' Bugeja 59'	Report		Stadium: Tony Bezzina Stadium

Albania  v  Faroe Islands

25 February Visit Malta Women's Tournament 2024	Albania	3–0	Faroe Islands	Paola, Malta
	Berisha 9' Istrefaj 60' Tukaj 65'	Report		Stadium: Tony Bezzina Stadium

Greece  v  Faroe Islands

5 April Euro 2025 qualifying	Greece	1–0	Faroe Islands	Heraklion
	Sarri 55' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium Referee: Rita Vehapi (Kosovo)

Montenegro  v  Faroe Islands

9 April Euro 2025 qualifying	Montenegro	5–1	Faroe Islands	Podgorica
		Report		Stadium: Podgorica City Stadium Referee: Emily Heaslip (England)

Faroe Islands  v  Andorra

31 May Euro 2025 qualifying	Faroe Islands	4–0	Andorra	Tórshavn
17:45 (16:45 UTC+1)	Dal Christiansen 25' Johannesen 48' Ryan 67' Hoydal 79'	Report		Stadium: Tórsvøllur Attendance: 507 Referee: Marisca Overtoom (Netherlands)

Faroe Islands  v  Greece

4 June UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying – Group C3	Faroe Islands	0–2	Greece	Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
18:45		Report	Sarri 13' Koggouli 78'	Stadium: Tórsvøllur Referee: Laura Mauricio (Switzerland)

Faroe Islands  v  Montenegro

12 July Euro 2025 qualifying	Faroe Islands	2–1	Montenegro	Tórshavn
17:45 (16:45 UTC+1)		Report		Stadium: Tórsvøllur

Andorra  v  Faroe Islands

16 July Euro 2025 qualifying	Andorra	0–4	Faroe Islands	Andorra la Vella
19:00		Report		Stadium: Estadi Nacional

Latvia  v  Faroe Islands

24 October 2024 Women's Baltic Cup	Latvia	2–1	Faroe Islands	Riga, Latvia
19:00	Miksone 28', 75'	Report	Ryan 57'	Stadium: Jānis Skredelis' Stadium Attendance: 247 Referee: Ugnė Šmitaitė (Lithuania)

Lithuania  v  Faroe Islands

27 October 2024 Women's Baltic Cup	Lithuania	1–2	Faroe Islands	Riga, Latvia
13:00	Vaitukaitytė 25'	Report	Johannesen 18' Sevdal 44'	Stadium: Jānis Skredelis' Stadium

2025

Slovakia  v  Faroe Islands

21 February 2025 (2025-02-21) 2025 UEFA Nations League C	Slovakia	3–0	Faroe Islands	Trnava,
19:00	Hmírová 20' Morávková 29' Fabová 60'	Report		Stadium: Štadión Antona Malatinského Attendance: 309 Referee: Anastasia Mylopoulou (Greece)

Gibraltar  v  Faroe Islands

25 February 2025 (2025-02-25) UEFA Women's Nations League C	Gibraltar	0–1	Faroe Islands	Europa Point, Gibraltar
19:00		Report	Sevdal 70'	Stadium: Europa Point Stadium Referee: Melek Dakan (Türkiye)

Faroe Islands  v  Moldova

4 April 2025 (2025-04-04) 2025 UEFA Nations League C	Faroe Islands	2–0	Moldova	Torshavn, Faroe Islands
	Hummeland 47' Sevdal 75'	Report		Stadium: Tórsvøllur Referee: Lovisa Johansson (Sweden)

Faroe Islands  v  Gibraltar

8 April 2025 (2025-04-08) UEFA Women's Nations League C	Faroe Islands	5–0	Gibraltar	Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
18:00 (17:00 WET)	Klakstein 20' Tórolvsdóttir 27' Sevdal 58' Johannesen 88', 90+3'	Report		Stadium: Tórsvøllur Referee: Teresa Oliveira (Portugal)

Moldova  v  Faroe Islands

30 May 2025 UEFA Nations League C	Moldova	1–1	Faroe Islands	Chișinău
19:00	Colnic 37'	Report	Johannesen 23'	Stadium: Zimbru Stadium Attendance: 568 Referee: Jelena Međedović (Serbia)

Faroe Islands  v  Slovakia

3 June 2025 UEFA Nations League C	Faroe Islands	1–2	Slovakia	Tórshavn
19:00	Johannesen 35'	Report	Hmírová 11' Maťavková 88'	Stadium: Tórsvøllur Attendance: 606 Referee: Emily Heaslip (England)

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

Position	Name	Ref.
Head coach	Signe Pries Andersen	[14]

Manager history

• Páll Guðlaugsson (1995–1997)
• Álvur Hansen (2001– May 2012)^[15]
• Rúni Nolsøe 2012^[16]
• Jón Pauli Olsen (2013–2015)
• Pætur Clementsen (December 2015–2018)^[17]
• John Petersen (2019–2020)^[18]
• Lene Terp (January 2021–2023)^[14]
• Signe Pries Andersen (2023–2024)^[19]
• Pætur Clementsen (January 2025–)^[20]

Players

See also: Category:Faroe Islands women's international footballers

Current squad

The following players were called up for the 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League matches against Moldova and Slovakia on 30 May and 3 June 2025. ^[21]

Caps and goals are correct as of 8 April 2025, after the match against Gibraltar. ^[22]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Óluva Joensen	(2002-04-21) 21 April 2002 (age 23)	27	0	KÍ
	1GK	Gunnvá Lützen	(2005-04-25) 25 April 2005 (age 20)	1	0	HB Tórshavn
3	2DF	Birita Ryan	(2002-11-24) 24 November 2002 (age 22)	40	2	KÍ
7	2DF	Ásla Johannesen (captain)	(1996-05-09) 9 May 1996 (age 29)	58	8	Piteå
8	2DF	Eyðvør Klakstein	(1995-09-05) 5 September 1995 (age 29)	59	6	KÍ
11	2DF	Sanna Svarvadal	(2001-11-14) 14 November 2001 (age 23)	30	1	KÍ
15	2DF	Tórunn Joensen	(1999-09-27) 27 September 1999 (age 25)	26	1	KÍ
	2DF	Teresa Jacobsen	(2006-07-30) 30 July 2006 (age 19)			HB
6	3MF	Heidi Sevdal	(1989-03-06) 6 March 1989 (age 36)	94	31	NSÍ
10	3MF	Julia Mortensen	(2000-09-28) 28 September 2000 (age 24)	33	2	NSÍ Runavík
16	3MF	Anna Brændstrup	(2005-07-23) 23 July 2005 (age 20)	4	0	HB Køge
17	3MF	Jancy Mohr	(2005-08-04) 4 August 2005 (age 20)	4	0	KÍ
20	3MF	Sara Lamhauge	(2000-12-19) 19 December 2000 (age 24)	31	0	NSÍ
22	3MF	Durita Hummeland	(1998-03-21) 21 March 1998 (age 27)	23	1	KÍ
	3MF	Sunniva Willemoes	(2003-09-12) 12 September 2003 (age 21)	16	2	HB
	3MF	Sólja Ernstsdóttir	(2006-09-05) 5 September 2006 (age 18)			KÍ
9	4FW	Rakul Sørensen	(2005-07-21) 21 July 2005 (age 20)	2	0	Víkingur
13	4FW	Jensa Tórolvsdóttir	(2001-03-08) 8 March 2001 (age 24)	40	6	Víkingur
18	4FW	Fridrikka Clementsen	(2003-07-11) 11 July 2003 (age 22)	19	0	HB
19	4FW	Petra Hoydal	(2005-03-07) 7 March 2005 (age 20)	9	1	AaB

Recent call ups

The following players were called up to the squad within the last 12 months.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
GK	Eyðgerð Berg	(2001-02-20) 20 February 2001 (age 24)	4	0	Víkingur	v.  Gibraltar, 8 April 2025
GK	Valborg Østerø	(2002-08-06) 6 August 2002 (age 23)	7	0	B36	v.  Lithuania, 25 February 2025
DF	Lea Lisberg	(2002-02-28) 28 February 2002 (age 23)	19	1	Víkingur	v.  Lithuania, 27 October 2024
DF	Mirjam Huneck	(1994-10-14) 14 October 1994 (age 30)	1	0		v.  Albania, 25 February 2024
DF	Sára á Líðarenda	(2003-09-26) 26 September 2003 (age 21)	0	0		v.  Albania, 25 February 2024
MF	Rúna Jacobsen	(1996-02-05) 5 February 1996 (age 29)	25	1	HB	v.  Gibraltar, 8 April 2025
MF	Maria Johansen	(2004-07-23) 23 July 2004 (age 21)	1	0	KÍ	v.  Gibraltar, 8 April 2025
MF	Anna Katrina Mikkelsen	(2005-04-20) 20 April 2005 (age 20)	0	0	Víkingur	v.  Gibraltar, 8 April 2025
MF	Malena Olsen	(2004-05-19) 19 May 2004 (age 21)	13	0	KÍ	v.  Moldova, 4 April 2025
MF	Tóra Mohr	(1999-04-01) 1 April 1999 (age 26)	14	0	KÍ	v.  Lithuania, 27 October 2024
MF	Margunn Lindholm	(1996-04-16) 16 April 1996 (age 29)	17	0		v.  Albania, 25 February 2024
FW	Mona Rasmusdóttir	(2001-04-22) 22 April 2001 (age 24)	22	1	Víkingur	v.  Lithuania, 27 October 2024
FW	Rebekka Benbakoura	(1999-01-05) 5 January 1999 (age 26)	18	0	Kastoria GPO	v.  Andorra, 16 July 2024
Notes ALT = Alternate INJ = Withdrew due to injury PRE = Preliminary squad / on stand-by PER = Withdrew due to personal reasons RET = Retired from national team TOP = Train-on player UNV = Made themselves unavailable for selection

Records

Individual records

See also: Category:Faroe Islands women's international footballers

Source:^[23]

• Players in bold are still active.

Most capped players As of 20 June 2025 Rank Player Caps 1 Heidi Sevdal 96 2 Olga Kristina Hansen 68 3 Eyðvør Klakstein 60 3 Ásla Johannesen 60 5 Rannvá Andreasen 56 6 "Ansy" Sevdal 45 7 Jensa Tórolvsdóttir 42 7 Birita Ryan 42 9 Malena Josephsen 41 10 Randi Wardum 38

Top goalscorers As of 20 June 2025 Rank Player Goals 1 Heidi Sevdal 31 2 Rannvá B. Andreasen 27 3 Malena Josephsen 10 3 Ásla Johannesen 10 5 Eyðvør Klakstein 6 5 Jensa Tórolvsdóttir 6 7 Olga Kristina Hansen 5 7 Milja Simonsen 5 9 Mona Breckmann 3 9 Vivian Bjartalíð 3 9 Sunniva Willemoes 3

Team records

On 28 November 2012 two of the players of the Faroe Islands women's national team set a world record. For the first time ever a parent and child played together in a football match for their country.^[24] Bára Skaale Klakkstein has played for many years now on the national team, Eyðvør has played for the U17 and U19 national teams, but on 28 November 2012 both mother and daughter played together in a friendly match against Luxembourg. The Faroe Islands won 6–0. Eyðvør was born on 5 September 1995 and was 17 years old when playing this match which was her first for the national team. The mother, Bára Skaale Klakkstein, was born on 24 March 1973^[25] and was 39 years old, when she played the match against Luxembourg. Mother and daughter have played together on the KÍ women's best team since 2010.^[26]

Honours

Regional

Women's Baltic Cup

• Champions: 2016
• Runners-up: 2021

Non-FIFA competitions

Island Games

• Champions: 2001, 2003, 2005

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

FIFA Women's World Cup record										Qualification record
Year	Result	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD		Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD
1991 to 2011	Did not enter									Did not participate
2015	Did not qualify									13	2	3	8	9	45	−36
2019										11	3	0	8	10	56	−46
2023										8	0	0	8	2	56	−54
2027	To be determined									To be determined
2031	To be determined									To be determined
2035	To be determined									To be determined
Total	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		32	5	3	24	21	157	−136

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

UEFA Women's Championship

UEFA Women's Championship record										Qualifying record
Year	Result	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD		Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD	P/R	Rnk
1984 to 1995	Did not enter									Did not participate
1997	Did not qualify									8	1	0	7	3	27	−24	–
2001	Did not enter									Did not enter
2005
2009	Did not qualify									3	1	0	2	8	3	+5	–
2013										3	1	0	2	2	2	0
2017										3	2	0	1	12	4	+8
2022										7	0	0	7	1	42	−41
2025										6	3	0	3	11	9	+2	[a]	43rd
2029	To be determined									To be determined
Total	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		30	8	0	22	37	87	−50	43rd

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

UEFA Women's Nations League

UEFA Women's Nations League record
Year	League	Group	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	P/R	Rnk
2023–24	C	3	4th	6	0	0	6	1	15		50th
2025	C	1	To be determined
Total				6	0	0	6	1	15	50th

	Promoted at end of season
	No movement at end of season
	Relegated at end of season
*	Participated in promotion/relegation play-offs

Island Games

Island Games record
Year	Result	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
2001	Champions	4	4	0	0	39	4
2003	Champions	4	4	0	0	34	2
2005	Champions	5	5	0	0	33	2
2007 to present	Did not enter
TOTAL	3 Titles	13	13	0	0	106	8

See also

• Faroe Islands portal
• Sports portal
• Games portal
• Association football portal
• Women's association football portal

• Sport in Faroe Islands
  • Football in Faroe Islands
    • Women's football in Faroe Islands
• Faroe Islands women's national under-20 football team
• Faroe Islands women's national under-17 football team
• Faroe Islands men's national football team

Notes

1. From Euro 2025 onwards a new qualifying format was introduced, linked to the Women's Nations League where teams are divided into leagues with promotion/relegation between the leagues at the end of each cycle.