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Ólavsøka

Saint Olaf's Day is tomorrow, but the people of Tórshavn like to get things started the day before with a boat race. Source.

H. N. Jacobsens Bókahandil, Tórshavn

Source.

Eiði

Eiði Stadium in the northwest of Eysturoy in the Faroe Islands would be a shoo-in for Seaside League membership. Source.

Developments:

The SPFL clubs have voted against reconstruction, so 2020-21 will be the usual 12-10-10-10, and Hearts will play Morton this coming season, unless a judge tells them they don't have to. Morton voted in favour of 14-10-10-10, along with Hearts, ICT, Arbroath and Dunfermline. Hearts and Partick are threatening court action over their relegation. The SFA is threatening to kick them out of Scottish football. SPFL chief Neil Doncaster has been appointed to UEFA's disciplinary committee.

The Scottish Championship clubs have voted for a 27-game schedule for 2020-21. Leagues One and Two still don't have a start date.

Scotland enters Phase 2 this weekend, which will allow team sports to be played behind closed doors.

The 2020 Canadian Championship is being reformatted. Eight CPL teams, including Ottawa, and three MLS clubs will participate. AS Blainville and Masters Futbol Academy are out, but will have spots in the 2021 tournament. See below for the deleted plan.

The 2019-20 UEFA Champions League, Europa League and Women's Champions League will be completed as hub tournaments in August.

The Emperor's Cup has been reformatted again. The 2020 champions in J2 and J3 have been added and an extra round inserted. The total number of participants is now 52 clubs. This will be the first time that J3 has had a guaranteed place in the cup.

Canadian Premier League commissioner David Clanachan says that a tournament involving all eight CPL clubs would be 35 to 40 games long. How would that work? If each team played each other team once in a round robin, that would make 28 games. Then if there were quarterfinals, semifinals and a final that would add 7 games, for a total of 35. If the playoffs were two-legged except for the final then the total would be 41. Or, if they formed into two groups of four (one group in Charlottetown and one in Moncton) and each team played the others in its group three times, that would make 36 games; add SF and F to get 39.

Bob McHugh has signed with Queen's Park. This is Ray McKinnon's work.

Bo'ness United have received SFA membership.

Games being played:

Icelandic tier II: ÍBV [2 - 0] Magni

Faroes: B36 1 - 1 Nes Sóknar Ítróttarfelag Runavík (NSÍ) (June 16)

Ítróttarfelag Fuglafjarðar (ÍF) [0 - 3] B36 (tomorrow)

K League: Pohang Steelers 1 - 2 Jeonbuk Motors (June 16)

Pohang Steelers [2 - 0] Gangwon

Iwaki FC have a training match against Ryukyu Keizai University. [Iwaki 5 - 7 RKU.]

The 2020 Allsvenskan resumed this week. Fouad Bachirou is still with Malmö, so let's follow them.

Malmö 2 - 0 Mjallby (June 15)

Häcken 1 - 1 Malmo (June 18)

Malmö [2 - 2] Varberg (tomorrow)

Varbergs BoIS are new to the Allsvenskan. They come from Halland County in the South. In 2004 they were in tier 5.

The top Albanian league -- the Kategoria Superiore -- resumed its 2019-20 season June 3rd after having been off since March 12th. It's due to wrap up July 29th. Tirana lead the league.

Other countries that have restarted their 2019-20 season: Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Kosovo, Montenegro, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tanzania, Turkey, Ukraine.

Countries that have gone ahead with a 2020 season: Belarus, Estonia, Faroes, Finland, Georgia, Iceland, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.

Games not being played:

Originally the 2020 Canadian Championship was to have begun this week. The bracket went:

A) FC Edmonton vs Pacific FC                   June 16-18 and 23-25

B) Valour FC vs Forge FC

C) Masters Futbol Academy vs York9

D) AS Blainville vs HFX Wanderers

E) winner of A) vs Vancouver Whitecaps        July 7-9 and 14-16

F) winner of B) vs Cavalry FC

G) winner of C) vs Toronto FC

H) winner of D) vs Montreal Impact

I) winner of E) vs winner of F)                 August 11-13 and 18-20

J) winner of G) vs winner of H)

K) winner of I) vs winner of J)           September 15-17 and 22-24

Winner to go on to the 2021 Concacaf Champions League.

I'm recording this because it's the sort of information that gets written over when the new schedule comes out.

Historical games:

JFL 1999: Mito HollyHock 2 - 1 Denso

B36 in the 1990s:

             G     W    D    L    F     A      GD     P    Pos

1999    18    12    2    4    52    22    +30    38    3rd

1998    18    11    4    3    59    24    +35    37    3rd

1997    18    16    0    2    58    24    +34    48    1st

1996    18      9    5    4    34    21    +13    32    4th

1995    18      8    2    8    23    35     -12    26    5th

1994    18      5    5    8    24    34     -10    15    7th

1993    18      6    6    6    21    17      +4    18    5th

1992    18      4    8    6    26    28       -2    16    6th

1991    18    10    4    4    37    28      +9    24    2nd    Cup

1990    18      9    2    7    30    27      +3    20    2nd

Armenia vs Georgia in UEFA competition:

2005/7/14      UC 1QR     Banants 2 - 3 Lokomotiv Tbilisi

2005/7/28      UC 1QR     Lokomotiv 0 - 2 Banants

2006/7/13      UC 1QR     Ameri Tbilisi 0 - 1 Banants

2006/7/27      UC 1QR     Banants 1 - 2 Ameri Tbilisi (Ameri won on away goals)

2011/6/30      UL 1QR      Banants 0 - 1 Metalurgist Rustavi

2011/7/7        UL 1QR      Metalurgist Rustavi 1 - 1 Banants

2016/6/30      UL 1QR      Dila Gori 1 - 0 Shirak

2016/7/7        UL 1QR      Shirak 1 - 0 Dila Gori (Shirak won on PK)

2016/7/12      CL 2QR      Dinamo Tbilisi 2 - 0 Alashkert

2016/7/19      CL 2QR      Alaskert 1 - 1 Dinamo Tbilisi

2019/8/6        EL 3QR      Ararat-Armenia 1 - 2 Saburtalo Tbilisi

2019/8/14      EL 3QR      Saburtalo Tbilisi 0 - 2 Ararat-Armenia

AS Blainville in the Canadian Championship:

2018/6/6        Blainville 2 - 1 Oakville Blue Devils

2018/6/13      Oakville Blue Devils 0 - 1 Blainville

2018/6/20      Blainville 0 - 1 Ottawa Fury

2018/6/27      Ottawa Fury 1 - 0 Blainville

2019/5/15      Blainville 0 - 0 York9

2019/5/22      York9 1 - 0 Blainville

Faroese Stamps by Anker Eli

Postage stamps designed by Anker Eli.

Klaksvík Statue

Living between mountains can put you in a certain frame of mind. Source.

Draken Harald Hårfagre in the Faroes

This spring the dragon ship Harald Hårfagre crossed the Atlantic from Norway to Newfoundland, making stops along the way. Here they are in the Faroes. Read about it here and here.

About B36 Tórshavn

Downtown Tórshavn. Source.

B36 Tórshavn is a football club in the Faroe Islands. They are the second most successful club in the capital Tórshavn, after HB Tórshavn, and the third most successful club in the country in terms of league titles and cup wins.

The club was founded in 1936. They play at Gundadalar Stadium, which seats 5,000. They wear white, hence their nickname Hvítir, the Whites.

They have won the league title 11 times, most recently in 2015, which gives them a place in the 2016-17 Europa Cup first qualifying round. They have won the Faroe Islands Cup 5 times, the last time being 2006.

Currently they are in third place, three points out of first.

Read an article about foreigners playing in the Faroes league.

June 1st, it was Ottawa 2 - 0 Vancouver, and Toronto 4 - 2 Montreal in the Canadian Championship semifinals, first leg.

The latest on relegation and promotion between the Lowland League and the sixth tier leagues: Threave are going down, but neither St Cuthbert nor Leith are going up. But Edusport Academy might apply for Lowland League membership.

On Friday it was UCD 2 - 0 Shelbourne. There are three Dublin clubs in the League of Ireland First Division: UCD, Shelbourne, and Cabinteely. The Premier Division also has three: Bohemians, Shamrock Rovers, and St Patrick's Athletic. On any given weekend the chances of a Dublin derby are pretty good.

Today: Nabisco League Cup: Vegalta Sendai [0 - 2] Yokohama F. Marinos. [That ends the group stage. Vegalta finish fourth in their group and do not advance.] Watch the trailer to a film about Vegalta Sendai and the 3/11 tsunami.

How to follow B36 Tórshavn:

Club website.

KVF fótbóltur.

Fótbóltsamband Føroya.

Faroe Islands Transit Map

Source. Plus there are plans to build three undersea tunnels joined by an undersea roundabout!