Rannvá Andreasen

Rannvá Biskopstø Andreasen (born 10 November 1980) is a Faroese football forward for KÍ Klaksvík of the Faroese 1. deild kvinnur. Since 2004, she has represented the Faroe Islands women's national football team at senior international level. She is the national team's all-time record goalscorer, inclusive of both male and female players.

Rannvá B. Andreasen
Playing for the Faroe Islands in October 2013
Personal information
Full nameRannvá Biskopstø Andreasen
Date of birth (1980-11-10) 10 November 1980 (age 43)
Place of birthKlaksvík, Faroe Islands
Position(s)Forward
Team information
Current team
Number9
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1995–447(561)
International career
1997–1998Faroe Islands U196(1)
2004–2020Faroe Islands[1]56(27)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 September 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 October 2020

Club career

In 1995, aged 14, Andreasen made her 1. deild kvinnur debut for KÍ Klaksvík in an 11–0 thrashing by rivals HB Tórshavn. Despite the inauspicious start Andreasen emerged as a promising player and finished her first season with 15 goals. In 1997 she was the league's top goalscorer for the first time with 28 goals as KÍ won the championship. In 2000, KÍ won a league and cup double, beating HB Tórshavn 2–0 in the cup final.

As of 2013, KÍ have won the league title every season since 2000, with Andreasen as top goalscorer on 11 occasions, including in 2003 when she scored a record 46 goals. She also collected ten Faroese Women's Cup winner's medals.

Andreasen has made 50 appearances and scored 16 goals for KÍ in the UEFA Women's Champions League, formerly known as the UEFA Women's Cup. Her debut came in October 2001, in the first round of the inaugural 2001–02 competition held in Helsinki. Andreasen scored both goals in KÍ's opening 2–1 win over Austrians USC Landhaus Wien, but the team then lost 4–0 to hosts HJK and Italian champions Torres and were eliminated.

Career statistics

Club

KlubSezonLigaLigaPuchar krajuEuropaSuma
MeczeBramkiMeczeBramkiMeczeBramkiMeczeBramki
KÍ Klaksvík19951. deild kvinnur1815001815
1996126862012
199714289232351
19989206161536
1999681179
20001424481832
200110744321713
2002173648302444
2003164648312355
2004103045331738
2005192121202322
2006182843302531
2007161446302320
2008202731312629
2009202831332632
2010182744312532
2011212923302632
2012183144322537
2013182336312430
2014192944302633
201534000034
Ogólnie314481791124114434607

International career

The Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF) relaunched their senior women's national team in 2004 after an eight-year hiatus. Andreasen played the whole of their first match, a 2–1 friendly defeat to Ireland.[2] The match was staged in Klaksvík on 12 October 2004, the day before the nations' senior men's teams met at Lansdowne Road, Dublin.

In the next match, a return friendly with Ireland at the Oscar Traynor Centre in Dublin, Andreasen put the Faroe Islands ahead after six minutes. Ireland hit back to win 2–1.

Andreasen was part of the squad as the Faroe Islands won the football tournament at the 2005 Island Games in Shetland. She struck two goals in a 3–0 win over Bermuda and contributed four to the 12–0 defeat of Guernsey in the gold medal match.[3]

Andreasen's first matches in UEFA competition came in the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 qualifying series. At a preliminary round mini-tournament held in Strumica, Macedonia, the Faroe Islands lost 2–1 to Wales and 1–0 to Kazakhstan, but then beat hosts Macedonia 7–0. Andreasen plundered four goals in a result which remained the Faroe Islands' record win, until their 8–0 thrashing of Andorra on 6 April 2015 with Rannvá again netting four goals.

In 2012, Andreasen and her KÍ teammates Randi Wardum and Malena Josephsen simultaneously became the first female Faroese players to win 25 caps.[4] She holds the record for most matches and scored goals for the Faroe Islands; as of 25 October 2017 she has played 51 matches and scored 26 goals.

In March 2020 Andreasen announced that the friendly match against Estonia on 9 March 2020 was her last international for the Faroe Islands. She came in as a substitute after 81 minutes. She scored the 1-1 goal seven minutes later, which was also the final result of the match.[5]

Personal life

For much of her career at club and international level, Andreasen has played alongside her twin Ragna Patawary.[6] She is also the aunt of Faroese international footballer Jákup Andreasen.

International goals

Scores and results list Faroe Islands' goal tally first.
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetitionSource
16 June 2005Dublin, Ireland  Republic of Ireland1–01–2Friendly[7]
212 July 2005Cunningsburgh, Shetland  Bermuda1–03–02005 Island Games[8]
33–0
423 October 2006Stadion Kukuš, Strumica, Macedonia  Macedonia2–07–0UEFA Women's Euro 2009 Qual.[9]
53–0
64–0
77–0
87 November 2007Panevėžys, Lithuania  Latvia1–03–0UEFA friendly competition[10]
925 October 2008Marijampolė, Lithuania  Lithuania1–04–1UEFA friendly competition[11]
1012 May 2008Luxembourg, Luxembourg  Latvia1–14–2UEFA friendly competition[12]
112–1
1215 May 2008Luxembourg, Luxembourg  Luxembourg1–04–2UEFA friendly competition[13]
132–0
1411 April 2009Sportski park Podravac, Virje, Croatia  Croatia2–13–1UEFA friendly competition[14]
1513 April 2009NK Pitomača, Pitomača, Croatia  Bosnia and Herzegovina1–22–3UEFA friendly competition[15]
1628 November 2012Stade Jos Haupert, Niederkorn, Luxembourg  Luxembourg1–06–0UEFA friendly competition[16]
173–0
186 April 2013LFF Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania  Lithuania1–01–02015 FIFA Women's World Cup Qual. – UEFA Preliminary Round[17]
196 April 2015Victor Tedesco Stadium, Ħamrun, Malta  Andorra1–08–0UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying preliminary round[18]
202–0
216–0
227–0
239 April 2015Victor Tedesco Stadium, Ħamrun, Malta  Malta1–04–2UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying preliminary round[19]
244 August 2016Latvia  Estonia2–22–2Baltic Cup[20]
255 August 2016Riga, Latvia  Lithuania1–01–0Baltic Cup[20]
2611 April 2017Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands  Turkey1–12–12019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA preliminary round
279 March 2020Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands  Estonia1–11–1Friendly[21]

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