1954–55 Greenlandic Football Championship

The first federation to organise a national football championship in Greenland was the GIF (Danish: Grønlands Idrætsforening), a general sports federation that organised more than just football tournaments, founded on 3 September 1953 at a meeting attended by eleven clubs from Upernavik, Uummannaq, Qeqertarsuatsiaat, Qasigiannguit, Aasiaat, Sisimiut, Maniitsoq, Nuuk, Paamiut and Qaqortoq.[1] The 1954–55 tournament was the first national football tournament and GIF continued to organise the competition, usually announced as Fodboldturneringen, Grønlandturneringen or Fodboldmesterskab i Grønland, until 1970.[1] For the first decade of its existence, the tournament was held sporadically, with iterations often taking more than a year to complete.[1] In 1971 a football specific federation, the Football Association of Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaanni Isikkamik Arsaattartut Kattuffiat; Danish: Grønlands Boldspil-Union), was founded, and took over the organisation of the tournament.[1]

Aassik-43

Kissaviarsuk-33

Nagdlunguaq-48

Nanok

Nuuk Idraetslag

Siumut Amerdlok Kunuk

Tupilak-41

Akavsak

KSP

Location of teams participating in the 1954–55 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship. Red dots indicate confirmed participating team, blue dots indicate possible participating teams.

In total, 22 clubs registered for the tournament who were usually denoted by their home towns in newspaper reports rather than their club name. However, the two finalists were definitely the club sides Nuuk Idraetslag and Nagdlunguaq-48.[2] Known participants are listed below:[2]

• Aassik-43, Narsaq
• Kissaviarsuk-33, Qaqortoq
• Nagdlunguaq-48, Ilulissat
• Nanok, Qullissat
• Nuuk Idraetslag, Nuuk
• Siumut Amerdlok Kunuk, Sisimiut
• Tupilak-41, Aasiaat

Possible participants:

• Akavsak, Aamaruutissat
• KSP, Qeqertarsuatsiaat

N.B.: On 19 April 1954, Akavsak, from the town of Aamaruutissat, which was abandoned in 1965 played KSP from Qeqertarsuatsiaat. It is not clear whether that match was part of the tournament. Additionally, on 8 April 1955 a team from Qullissat (presumably Nanok) won 4–1 against a team from Aamaruutissat (presumably Âkavsak). Again, it is not clear whether that match was part of the tournament.

The competitions was divided into two sections, a north section (Danish: Nordkredsen), known to have been played as a single group and a southern section (Danish: Sydkredsen), known to have been divided into two groups.[2] The top two teams in each group in the southern section played each other with the winners qualifying for a regional final to determine the entrant to the grand final. The northern section also featured at least two knockout rounds to determine their entrant. The final was played as a one off match.