Stjarnan
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| Full name | Ungmennafélagið Stjarnan |
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| Founded | 1960 |
| Ground | Samsungvöllur Garðabær, Iceland |
| Capacity | 1,000 |
| Chairman | Jóhann Ingimundarson |
| Manager | Rúnar Páll Sigmundsson |
| League | Úrvalsdeild |
| 2016 | 2nd |
| Website | Club home page |
Ungmennafélagið Stjarnan is an Icelandic sports club specialising in handball, football, basketball, volleyball and gymnastics located in Garðabær,
The club have won numerous major titles in handball, both men's and women's.
They won the promotion from the 1. deild karla in 2008. Stjarnan won the Úrvalsdeild for the first time in 2014.
The association was founded in 1960. The men's division played in 1997 in the first Icelandic League (then Landsbankadeild) and managed the 2006 promotion to the second highest Icelandic league. In 2008 men's reached the summit and thus to play in Úrvalsdeild since 2009.
The club gained worldwide fame when their elaborate goal celebrations, including highly choreographed depictions of landing a fish, diving, a human toilet, a human bicycle, and a Rambo shooting spree, were published widely across the Internet and football television shows.
In the 2014–15 Europa League, they reached the play-off rounds after beating Scottish club Motherwell and Polish team Lech Poznań, before Italian giants Inter Milan denied them a place in the group stages.
As of 5 January 2016
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
The Stjarnan Women play in Iceland's top division, the women's Úrvalsdeild. In 2011 the team won the championship two weeks before the end. The team also reached the final of the Icelandic Women's Cup in 1993 and 2010, losing 1–3 and 0–1 respectively. The team won the cup eventually in 2012 with a 1–0 win over Valur. In 2013 they won their second league title, winning every single game that season thus not dropping a single point.
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