2025 Besta deild karla

Besta deild karla
Season2025
Dates5 April – 14 September 2025
2024
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The 2025 Besta deild karla is the 114th season of top-flight Icelandic Football. It is the fourth season following the league's rebrand as Besta deild karla.[1]

Teams

The league consisted of twelve teams: the top ten teams from the previous season, and two teams promoted from the 1. deild karla. Breiðablik entered the season as defending champions after winning their seventh title during the previous season.[2]

The promoted teams were 2024 1. deild karla champions ÍBV (promoted after a single-season absence), and play-off winners Afturelding (promoted to the top division for the first time in their history). They replaced the 2024 Besta deild karla bottom two teams, HK and Fylkir.

Stadia and locations

Team Location Stadium
Afturelding Mosfellsbær Varmárvöllur
Breiðablik Kópavogur Kópavogsvöllur
FH Hafnarfjörður Kaplakriki
Fram Reykjavík Laugardalsvöllur
ÍA Akranes Norðurálsvöllurinn
ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar Hásteinsvöllur
KA Akureyri Akureyrarvöllur
KR Reykjavík Alvogenvöllurinn
Stjarnan Garðabær Samsung völlurinn
Valur Reykjavík Valsvöllur
Vestri Ísafjörður Olísvöllurinn
Víkingur Reykjavík Reykjavík Víkingsvöllur

Regular season

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Víkingur Reykjavík 14 9 3 2 26 14 +12 30 Qualification for the Championship Round
2 Valur 14 8 3 3 37 19 +18 27
3 Breiðablik 14 8 3 3 26 20 +6 27
4 Fram 14 7 1 6 22 18 +4 22
5 Stjarnan 14 6 3 5 25 25 0 21
6 Vestri 14 6 1 7 13 13 0 19
7 Afturelding 14 5 3 6 17 19 −2 18 Qualification for the Relegation Round
8 KR 14 4 4 6 35 36 −1 16
9 FH 14 4 3 7 20 20 0 15
10 ÍBV 14 4 3 7 13 21 −8 15
11 KA 14 4 3 7 14 26 −12 15
12 ÍA 14 4 0 10 15 32 −17 12
Updated to match(es) played on 7 July 2025. Source: KSI (in Icelandic), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Head-to-head away goals scored; 8) Play-off (only for deciding champion); 9) Draw.[3]

Results

Each team was originally scheduled to play home and away once against every other team for a total of 22 games each.[4]

Home \ Away AFT BRE FH FRA ÍA ÍBV KA KR STJ VAL VES VÍK
Afturelding 2–2 31 AUG 14 JUL 4–1 0–0 17 AUG 4–3 3–0 0–2 6 AUG 1–0
Breiðablik 2–0 17 AUG 1–1 1–4 14 SEP 5 AUG 3–3 2–1 2–1 19 JUL 3–1
FH 0–0 2–0 14 SEP 11 AUG 24 AUG 20 JUL 2–2 1–1 3–0 2–0 5 AUG
Fram 3–0 4–2 2–0 0–1 2–0 1–2 18 AUG 6 AUG 31 AUG 1–0 27 JUL
ÍA 14 SEP 24 AUG 1–3 0–1 0–3 3–0 14 JUL 0–3 5 AUG 0–2 17 AUG
ÍBV 1–2 0–2 2–1 3–1 31 AUG 0–0 2 AUG 14 JUL 17 AUG 0–2 0–0
KA 1–0 0–1 3–2 24 AUG 27 JUL 10 AUG 2–2 1–1 2–5 14 SEP 0–2
KR 11 AUG 27 JUL 3–2 2–3 5–0 4–1 1–2 25 AUG 3–3 2–1 14 SEP
Stjarnan 28 JUL 1–4 2–1 2–0 2–1 2–3 31 AUG 4–2 3–2 17 AUG 2–2
Valur 25 AUG 10 AUG 27 JUL 2–1 6–1 3–0 3–1 6–1 14 SEP 1–1 1–1
Vestri 2–0 0–1 1–0 10 AUG 0–2 27 JUL 1–0 31 AUG 3–1 0–2 0–1
Víkingur Reykjavík 2–1 31 AUG 3–1 3–2 2–1 2–0 4–0 3–2 10 AUG 20 JUL 24 AUG
Updated to match(es) played on 7 July 2025. Source: KSI (in Icelandic), Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Hat-tricks

Player For Against Result Date

Discipline

Player

  • Most yellow cards:
  • Most red cards:

Club

  • Most yellow cards:
  • Most red cards:

References

  1. ^ "2025 Besta deild karla". Soccerway. 16 February 2025. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
  2. ^ "2025 Besta deild karla". UEFA. 16 February 2025. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
  3. ^ "Besta-deild karla 2022 – Season rules". Scoresway. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  4. ^ "2025 Besta deild karla". voetbal. 16 February 2025. Retrieved 16 February 2025.