Season | 2022 |
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Dates | 18 April – 29 October 2022 |
Champions | Breiðablik |
Relegated | Leiknir ÍA |
Champions League | Breiðablik |
Europa Conference League | Víkingur Reykjavík KA |
Matches played | 132 |
Goals scored | 461 (3.49 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Nökkvi Þeyr Þórisson (17 goals) |
Biggest home win | Víkingur Reykjavík 9–0 Leiknir (7 September 2022) |
Biggest away win | Leiknir 1–7 Keflavík (22 October 2022) |
Highest scoring | Fram 4–8 Keflavík (17 September 2022) |
Longest winning run | 9 matches Breiðablik |
Longest unbeaten run | 13 matches Víkingur Reykjavík |
Longest winless run | 12 matches ÍBV |
Longest losing run | 7 matches ÍA |
← 2021 2023 →
All statistics correct as of 10 October 2022. |
The 2022 Besta deild karla was the 111th season of top-flight Icelandic football. Twelve teams contested the league, including the defending champions Víkingur Reykjavík, who won their sixth league title in 2021.[1] It was the first season of the league after it was rebranded as Besta deild karla.[2]
The 2022 Besta deild karla is contested by twelve teams, ten of which played in the division the previous year and two teams promoted from 1. deild karla. The bottom two teams from the previous season, HK and Fylkir (both relegated after one year in the top flight), were relegated to the 2022 1. deild karla and were replaced by Knattspyrnufélagið Fram (promoted after a seven-year absence) and ÍBV (promoted after a two-year absence), champions and runners-up of the 2020 1. deild karla respectively.
Team | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
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Breiðablik | Kópavogur | Kópavogsvöllur | 3,009[3] |
FH | Hafnarfjörður | Kaplakriki | 6,450[4] |
Fram | Reykjavík | Laugardalsvöllur | 9,800 |
ÍA | Akranes | Norðurálsvöllurinn | 3,054[5] |
ÍBV | Vestmannaeyjar | Hásteinsvöllur | 2,300 (534 seated) |
KA | Akureyri | Akureyrarvöllur[a] | 1,645[6] |
Keflavík | Reykjanesbær | Keflavíkurvöllur | 5,200 |
KR | Reykjavík | Alvogenvöllurinn | 3,333[7] |
Leiknir | Reykjavík | Leiknisvöllur | 1,025 |
Stjarnan | Garðabær | Samsung völlurinn | 1,440 |
Valur | Reykjavík | Valsvöllur | 2,465[8] |
Víkingur R. | Reykjavík | Víkingsvöllur | 2,023[9] |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Breiðablik | 22 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 55 | 23 | +32 | 51 | Qualification for the Championship Round |
2 | Víkingur Reykjavík | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 58 | 32 | +26 | 43 | |
3 | KA | 22 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 45 | 26 | +19 | 43 | |
4 | Valur | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 38 | 32 | +6 | 32 | |
5 | KR | 22 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 37 | 34 | +3 | 31 | |
6 | Stjarnan | 22 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 40 | 42 | −2 | 31 | |
7 | Keflavík | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 39 | 40 | −1 | 28 | Qualification for the Relegation Round |
8 | Fram | 22 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 44 | 51 | −7 | 25 | |
9 | ÍBV | 22 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 33 | 44 | −11 | 20 | |
10 | Leiknir | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 49 | −28 | 20 | |
11 | FH | 22 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 27 | 35 | −8 | 19 | |
12 | ÍA | 22 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 24 | 53 | −29 | 15 |
Each team was originally scheduled to play home and away once against every other team for a total of 22 games each.[11]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | BRE | KA | VÍK | KR | STJ | VAL | |
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1 | Breiðablik (C) | 27 | 20 | 3 | 4 | 66 | 27 | +39 | 63 | Qualification for the Champions League preliminary round | — | — | 1–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | — | |
2 | KA | 27 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 54 | 30 | +24 | 53 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League first qualifying round[a] | 1–2 | — | — | 1–0 | — | 2–0 | |
3 | Víkingur Reykjavík | 27 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 66 | 41 | +25 | 48 | — | 2–2 | — | 2–2 | — | 3–2 | ||
4 | KR | 27 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 42 | 40 | +2 | 38 | — | — | — | — | 0–2 | 2–1 | ||
5 | Stjarnan | 27 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 44 | 52 | −8 | 37 | — | 0–3 | 2–1 | — | — | — | ||
6 | Valur | 27 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 46 | 44 | +2 | 35 | 2–5 | — | — | — | 3–0 | — |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | KEF | ÍBV | FRA | FH | ÍA | LEI | |
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7 | Keflavík | 27 | 11 | 4 | 12 | 56 | 48 | +8 | 37 | — | — | 4–0 | 2–3 | 3–2 | — | ||
8 | ÍBV | 27 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 43 | 50 | −7 | 32 | 2–1 | — | — | 2–1 | — | 1–0 | ||
9 | Fram | 27 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 53 | 63 | −10 | 31 | — | 1–3 | — | 3–0 | — | 3–2 | ||
10 | FH | 27 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 36 | 46 | −10 | 25 | — | — | — | — | 1–2 | 4–2 | ||
11 | ÍA (R) | 27 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 36 | 63 | −27 | 25 | Relegation to 1. delid karla | — | 3–2 | 3–2 | — | — | — | |
12 | Leiknir (R) | 27 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 28 | 66 | −38 | 21 | 1–7 | — | — | — | 2–2 | — |
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
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KA | 17 |
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Fram | |
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Breiðablik | 14 |
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Keflavík | 12 |
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Breiðablik | 11 |
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Stjarnan | ||
7 | ![]() |
ÍBV | 10 |
8 | ![]() |
Breiðablik | 9 |
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Víkingur Reykjavík | ||
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FH | ||
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ÍA | ||
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KA |