2007 Úrvalsdeild

The 2007 season of Úrvalsdeild karla was the 96th season of top tier football in Iceland. Title contenders were considered to be KR, FH, ÍA and Valur. HK were playing for the first time in Landsbankadeild. The league was expanded from 10 teams to 12 teams after the 2007 season, therefore only one team was relegated and 3 were promoted from the 1. deild karla. The first match day of the season was on 12 May. Valur won the league for the first time in 20 years and Vikingur were relegated to 1. deild karla.

Úrvalsdeild karla
Season2007
ChampionsValur
RelegatedVikingur
UEFA Champions LeagueValur (First Qualifying Round)
UEFA Europa LeagueFH (First Qualifying Round)
ÍA (First Qualifying Round)
UEFA Intertoto CupFylkir (First Qualifying Round)
Matches played90
Goals scored269 (2.99 per match)
← 2006
2008 →

Fram's Jónas Grani Garðarsson was the top scorer with 13 goals.

Picture of the Vikingur vs Valur match in August 2007

Final league table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Valur (C) 18 11 5 2 41 20 +21 38 Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2 FH 18 11 4 3 42 26 +16 37 Qualification for the UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3 ÍA 18 8 6 4 34 27 +7 30
4 Fylkir 18 8 5 5 23 18 +5 29 Qualification for the Intertoto Cup first round
5 Breiðablik 18 5 9 4 29 20 +9 24
6 Keflavík 18 5 6 7 26 32 −6 21
7 Fram 18 3 7 8 25 31 −6 16
8 KR 18 3 6 9 17 30 −13 15
9 HK 18 4 4 10 17 35 −18 16
10 Vikingur (R) 18 3 5 10 15 30 −15 14 Relegation to 1. deild karla
Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Each team played every opponent once home and away for a total of 18 matches.

Home \ Away BRE FH FRA FYL HK ÍA ÍBK KR VAL VÍK
Breiðablik 4–3 2–2 0–1 3–0 3–0 2–2 1–1 0–0 1–1
FH 2–1 3–3 0–0 4–0 1–1 3–2 5–1 0–2 4–1
Fram 1–0 0–2 3–1 3–0 2–4 2–2 1–1 0–2 0–2
Fylkir 0–3 1–2 1–1 1–0 2–2 4–0 0–0 1–2 1–0
HK 1–1 2–2 2–1 1–2 1–0 2–1 2–0 1–4 2–2
ÍA 2–1 2–3 2–2 0–2 4–1 2–1 3–1 2–1 1–0
Keflavík 0–3 1–2 2–1 1–0 3–0 3–3 1–1 1–3 0–0
KR 1–1 0–2 2–1 1–1 3–2 1–1 1–2 0–3 1–2
Valur 2–2 4–1 1–1 2–4 1–0 2–2 2–2 2–1 3–1
Vikingur 1–1 1–3 2–1 0–1 0–0 0–3 1–2 0–1 1–5
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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