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Arnbjørn Hansen
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Personal information
Full name Arnbjørn Theodor Hansen
Date of birth (1986-02-27) 27 February 1986 (age 36)
Place of birth Eiði, Faroe Islands
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
EB/Streymur
Number 22
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2014 EB/Streymur 209 (131)
2015–2016 HB Tórshavn 11 (7)
2017– EB/Streymur 61 (17)
International career
2004 Faroe Islands U19 2 (0)
2007 Faroe Islands U21 4 (1)
2006– Faroe Islands 17 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 November 2020
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20 November 2020

Arnbjørn Theodor Hansen (Faroese pronunciation: [ˈaɻɳ.ˌpjœtn ˈhan̥s.ɛn]; born 27 February 1986 in Eiði) is a Faroese football striker who plays for EB/Streymur in the Faroe Islands Premier League. He has also played for the Faroe Islands national team from 2006 to 2014. As of 20 November 2020 he has played 288 matches and scored 155 goals in the Faroe Islands Premier League

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Eiði

Eiði

Eiði [ˈaiːjɪ] (listen) is a village located on the north-west tip of Eysturoy in the Faroe Islands. It is the seat of Eiði Municipality. It is located 4 km north of Ljósá and 6.5 km west of Funningur.

Association football

Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposite team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is considered the world's most popular sport.

EB/Streymur

EB/Streymur

EB/Streymur is a Faroese semi-professional football club based in Streymnes and Eiði. The club was founded in 1993, as result of the merger between EB and Streymur. They have won the Faroe Islands Premier League twice and the Faroe Islands Cup four times.

Faroe Islands national football team

Faroe Islands national football team

The Faroe Islands national football team represents the Faroe Islands in association football and is governed by the Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF). The FSF became a member of FIFA in 1988 and UEFA in 1990 and represents the fourth-smallest UEFA country by population.

Career

Arnbjørn Theodor Hansen has some good skills in handball and football. Through his younger years he played with HB and EB/Streymur. When Arnbjørn was at HB, he was 12 years old. He moved to EB/Streymur after his short spell at HB and it was there his football career really started. He had trials at Danish club Odense BK, but was not offered a contract with the Danish Superliga team. In 2008 Arnbjørn Hansen scored 20 goals in the Faroe Islands Premier League, the top Faroese division, for EB/Streymur. In 2006, he won the title "Best young player of the year".[1] He was chosen as player of the year 2008. Hansen won the Faroese Golden Boot 2008 for being the top scorer in the top Faroese division, Vodafonedeildin. He scored 20 goals, which was 5 goals more than number two on the top scoring list, Andrew av Fløtum from HB Tórshavn, who scored 15.[1] He also won the golden boot in 2010 together with Christian Høgni Jacobsen from NSÍ; they scored 22 goals each.[2]

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International goals

Scores and results list Faroe Islands' goal tally first.
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 9 September 2009 Svangaskarð, Toftir, Faroe Islands  Lithuania 2–1 2–1 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying
2 7 June 2011 Svangaskarð, Toftir, Faroe Islands  Estonia 2–0 2–0 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
3 16 October 2012 Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands  Republic of Ireland 1–2 1–4 2014 World Cup qualifier

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Svangaskarð

Svangaskarð

Svangaskarð, also referred to as Tofta Leikvøllur, is a multi-purpose stadium in Toftir, Faroe Islands with two football fields and a sports arena for athletics around the lower field. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 6,000 people. It was the sole home ground of the Faroe Islands national football team from 1991 and until the Tórsvøllur Stadium was built in the capital Tórshavn in 1999 and is still occasionally used for international football matches.

Toftir

Toftir

Toftir is a village in Nes Municipality on the island of Eysturoy, in the Faroe Islands. It is part of a chain of villages stretching over a distance of 10 kilometres on the east side of Skálafjørður (fjord) on Eysturoy island. The highest hill in Toftir, called Húkslond, is 129 metres high, and Nes Municipality is the only area in the Faroes which has no mountains above 200 metres.

Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands, or simply the Faroes, are a North Atlantic island group and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

Lithuania national football team

Lithuania national football team

The Lithuania national football team represents Lithuania in international football and is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation, the governing body for football in Lithuania. They played their first match in 1923. In 1940, Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union; the country regained its independence in 1990 and played their first match thereafter against Georgia on 27 May of that year.

Estonia national football team

Estonia national football team

The Estonia national football team represents Estonia in international football matches and is controlled by the Estonian Football Association, the governing body for football in Estonia. Estonia's home ground is Lilleküla Stadium in the capital city Tallinn.

UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying Group C

UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying Group C

This page shows the standings and results for Group C of the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying tournament.

Tórsvøllur

Tórsvøllur

Tórsvøllur is a football stadium on the sport site of Gundadalur in Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. The stadium holds 6,500 people, and was built in 1999 to become the country's national stadium to provide an artificial grass surface on which international football matches could be played. Previously, the Faroe Islands national team played its home matches in the town of Toftir at Svangaskarð stadium.

Tórshavn

Tórshavn

Tórshavn, usually locally referred to as simply Havn, is the capital and largest city of the Faroe Islands. It is located in the southern part on the east coast of Streymoy. To the northwest of the city lies the 347-meter-high (1,138 ft) mountain Húsareyn, and to the southwest, the 350-meter-high (1,150 ft) Kirkjubøreyn. They are separated by the Sandá River. The city itself has a population of 14,001 (2022), and the greater urban area has a population of 21,078, including the suburbs of Hoyvik and Argir.

Republic of Ireland national football team

Republic of Ireland national football team

The Republic of Ireland national football team represents the Republic of Ireland in men's international football. It is governed by the Football Association of Ireland (FAI).

2014 FIFA World Cup qualification

2014 FIFA World Cup qualification

The 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations. The 2014 FIFA World Cup featured 32 teams, with one place reserved for the host nation, Brazil. The remaining 31 places were determined by a qualification process, in which the other 207 teams, from the six FIFA confederations, competed. Most of the successful teams were determined within these confederations, with a limited number of inter-confederation play-offs occurring at the end of the process.

Honours

  • Faroese Premier League: 2008 and 2012
  • Faroese Premier League Runner-up: 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011

Individual

Source: "Arnbjørn Hansen", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, December 17th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnbjørn_Hansen.

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