2008 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup

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.

2008 Deildabikar

Country	Iceland
Teams	24
Champions	Valur
Runners-up	Fram
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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