Rannvá Andreasen

Rannvá Biskopstø Andreasen (born 10 November 1980) is a Faroese football forward for KÍ Klaksvík of the Faroese 1. deild kvinnur. Since 2004, she has represented the Faroe Islands women's national football team at senior international level. She is the national team's all-time record goalscorer, inclusive of both male and female players.

Rannvá B. Andreasen

Playing for the Faroe Islands in October 2013
Personal information
Full name	Rannvá Biskopstø Andreasen
Date of birth	(1980-11-10) 10 November 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth	Klaksvík, Faroe Islands
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	KÍ
Number	9
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1995–	KÍ	447	(561)
International career‡
1997–1998	Faroe Islands U19	6	(1)
2004–2020	Faroe Islands[1]	56	(27)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20 September 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23 October 2020

Club career

In 1995, aged 14, Andreasen made her 1. deild kvinnur debut for KÍ Klaksvík in an 11–0 thrashing by rivals HB Tórshavn. Despite the inauspicious start Andreasen emerged as a promising player and finished her first season with 15 goals. In 1997 she was the league's top goalscorer for the first time with 28 goals as KÍ won the championship. In 2000, KÍ won a league and cup double, beating HB Tórshavn 2–0 in the cup final.

As of 2013, KÍ have won the league title every season since 2000, with Andreasen as top goalscorer on 11 occasions, including in 2003 when she scored a record 46 goals. She also collected ten Faroese Women's Cup winner's medals.

Andreasen has made 50 appearances and scored 16 goals for KÍ in the UEFA Women's Champions League, formerly known as the UEFA Women's Cup. Her debut came in October 2001, in the first round of the inaugural 2001–02 competition held in Helsinki. Andreasen scored both goals in KÍ's opening 2–1 win over Austrians USC Landhaus Wien, but the team then lost 4–0 to hosts HJK and Italian champions Torres and were eliminated.

Career statistics

Club

Klub	Sezon	Liga	Liga		Puchar kraju		Europa		Suma
			Mecze	Bramki	Mecze	Bramki	Mecze	Bramki	Mecze	Bramki
KÍ Klaksvík	1995	1. deild kvinnur	18	15	0	0	—		18	15
	1996		12	6	8	6	—		20	12
	1997		14	28	9	23	—		23	51
	1998		9	20	6	16	—		15	36
	1999		6	8	1	1	—		7	9
	2000		14	24	4	8	—		18	32
	2001		10	7	4	4	3	2	17	13
	2002		17	36	4	8	3	0	24	44
	2003		16	46	4	8	3	1	23	55
	2004		10	30	4	5	3	3	17	38
	2005		19	21	2	1	2	0	23	22
	2006		18	28	4	3	3	0	25	31
	2007		16	14	4	6	3	0	23	20
	2008		20	27	3	1	3	1	26	29
	2009		20	28	3	1	3	3	26	32
	2010		18	27	4	4	3	1	25	32
	2011		21	29	2	3	3	0	26	32
	2012		18	31	4	4	3	2	25	37
	2013		18	23	3	6	3	1	24	30
	2014		19	29	4	4	3	0	26	33
	2015		3	4	0	0	0	0	3	4
	Ogólnie		314	481	79	112	41	14	434	607

International career

The Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF) relaunched their senior women's national team in 2004 after an eight-year hiatus. Andreasen played the whole of their first match, a 2–1 friendly defeat to Ireland.^[2] The match 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, Andreasen put the Faroe Islands ahead after six minutes. Ireland hit back to win 2–1.

Andreasen was part of the squad as the Faroe Islands won the football tournament at the 2005 Island Games in Shetland. She struck two goals in a 3–0 win over Bermuda and contributed four to the 12–0 defeat of Guernsey in the gold medal match.^[3]

Andreasen's first matches in UEFA competition came in the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 qualifying series. At a preliminary round mini-tournament held in Strumica, Macedonia, the Faroe Islands lost 2–1 to Wales and 1–0 to Kazakhstan, but then beat hosts Macedonia 7–0. Andreasen plundered four goals in a result which remained the Faroe Islands' record win, until their 8–0 thrashing of Andorra on 6 April 2015 with Rannvá again netting four goals.

In 2012, Andreasen and her KÍ teammates Randi Wardum and Malena Josephsen simultaneously became the first female Faroese players to win 25 caps.^[4] She holds the record for most matches and scored goals for the Faroe Islands; as of 25 October 2017 she has played 51 matches and scored 26 goals.

In March 2020 Andreasen announced that the friendly match against Estonia on 9 March 2020 was her last international for the Faroe Islands. She came in as a substitute after 81 minutes. She scored the 1-1 goal seven minutes later, which was also the final result of the match.^[5]

Personal life

For much of her career at club and international level, Andreasen has played alongside her twin Ragna Patawary.^[6] She is also the aunt of Faroese international footballer Jákup Andreasen.

International goals

Scores and results list Faroe Islands' goal tally first.

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Source
1	6 June 2005	Dublin, Ireland	Republic of Ireland	1–0	1–2	Friendly	[7]
2	12 July 2005	Cunningsburgh, Shetland	Bermuda	1–0	3–0	2005 Island Games	[8]
3				3–0
4	23 October 2006	Stadion Kukuš, Strumica, Macedonia	Macedonia	2–0	7–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2009 Qual.	[9]
5				3–0
6				4–0
7				7–0
8	7 November 2007	Panevėžys, Lithuania	Latvia	1–0	3–0	UEFA friendly competition	[10]
9	25 October 2008	Marijampolė, Lithuania	Lithuania	1–0	4–1	UEFA friendly competition	[11]
10	12 May 2008	Luxembourg, Luxembourg	Latvia	1–1	4–2	UEFA friendly competition	[12]
11				2–1
12	15 May 2008	Luxembourg, Luxembourg	Luxembourg	1–0	4–2	UEFA friendly competition	[13]
13				2–0
14	11 April 2009	Sportski park Podravac, Virje, Croatia	Croatia	2–1	3–1	UEFA friendly competition	[14]
15	13 April 2009	NK Pitomača, Pitomača, Croatia	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–2	2–3	UEFA friendly competition	[15]
16	28 November 2012	Stade Jos Haupert, Niederkorn, Luxembourg	Luxembourg	1–0	6–0	UEFA friendly competition	[16]
17				3–0
18	6 April 2013	LFF Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania	Lithuania	1–0	1–0	2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Qual. – UEFA Preliminary Round	[17]
19	6 April 2015	Victor Tedesco Stadium, Ħamrun, Malta	Andorra	1–0	8–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying preliminary round	[18]
20				2–0
21				6–0
22				7–0
23	9 April 2015	Victor Tedesco Stadium, Ħamrun, Malta	Malta	1–0	4–2	UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying preliminary round	[19]
24	4 August 2016	Latvia	Estonia	2–2	2–2	Baltic Cup	[20]
25	5 August 2016	Riga, Latvia	Lithuania	1–0	1–0	Baltic Cup	[20]
26	11 April 2017	Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands	Turkey	1–1	2–1	2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA preliminary round
27	9 March 2020	Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands	Estonia	1–1	1–1	Friendly	[21]