Season 2012 Champions League FH Start date 2012 End date September 29, 2012 Matches played 132 | Champions FH Europa League KRBreiðablikÍBV Goals scored 425 | |
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Champion Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar Relegated Knattspyrnudeild UMFG, UMF Selfoss | ||
The 2012 Úrvalsdeild (also known as the "Pepsi-deild" for sponsorship reasons) is the 101st season of top-tier football in Iceland. The season began on 6 May 2012 and concluded 29 September 2012. The league was won by FH, the club's sixth Icelandic league title, while defending champions KR finished as runners-up, some 13 points behind FH. At the other end of the table, Grindavík and Selfoss ended the campaign in the bottom two and were thereby relegated to the 2013 1. deild karla.
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Teams
A total of twelve teams will contest the league, including ten sides from the 2011 season and two promoted teams from the 1. deild karla.
Þór Akureyri and Víkingur R. were relegated from 2011 Úrvalsdeild after finishing the season in the bottom two places of the league table. Both teams were relegated having just achieved promotion the season before.
2011 1. deild karla champions ÍA Akranes and runners-up Selfoss secured direct promotion to the Úrvalsdeild. ÍA returned to the Úrvalsdeild after a three-year absence while Selfoss return immediately to the top league after a one-year absence.
League table
Updated to games played on 29 September 2012.
Source: ksi.is (Icelandic)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1KR, winners of the 2012 Icelandic Cup, will qualify for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Positions by round
Source: [1]
Results
Each team play every opponent once home and away for a total of 22 matches.
Updated to games played on 27 September 2012.
Source: ksi.is (Icelandic)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top goalscorers
Source ksi.is (Icelandic)
As of 29 September 2012