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Region
  
Current champions
  
Valur (3rd title)

Current champion
  
Valur (3rd title)

Number of teams
  
9

Most successful club(s)
  
Fram (4 titles)

The Reykjavík Tournament is an annual pre-season football tournament in Iceland. The tournament involves nine of Reykjavík's top football sides from the top two leagues in Iceland, Úrvalsdeild and 1. deild, and uses a combination of group and knockout rounds to determine which team is the winner of the tournament. Currently, matches begin in January, with tournament concluding in February.

Valur are the defending champions, having defeated Fjölnir 1–0 in the 2017 final.

By club

A total of 10 clubs have appeared in the final, of whom 8 have won the competition. The most successful club in terms of wins is Fram with 4 wins from 5 appearances. KR have participated in the most finals, appearing in 8. KR have also have finished runners-up on more occasions than any other club with 5 defeats in the final. Víkingur are the only side to have appeared in a final and not won, finishing runners-up on 3 occasions.

The most recent winner is Valur, who defeated Fjölnir 1–0 in the 2017 final.

References

Reykjavik Tournament Wikipedia


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