Skautafélagið Björninn (, ), also known as Björninn () for short, is an Icelandic sports club, founded in 1990 and based in Reykjavík, Iceland. It began as a skating club that fielded ice hockey teams and included figure skating and curling programs; it eventually added football.

On 28 September 2018, the club's ice skating departments merged into Ungmennafélagið Fjölnir, which overtook all of the department's assets and debts.

Ice hockey Men's ice hockey History The clubs men's ice hockey team played in the Icelandic Men's Hockey League from the 1991–92 season until 2018. It won the national championship in 2012 after beating Skautafélag Reykjavíkur 3–1 in the best-of-five finals series.

In the early 1990s, Björninn was the first team to invite American service members from nearby NAS Keflavik to play on their team. At the time, each team in the Icelandic League was allowed to put a maximum of 3 non-Icelandic players on their rosters. In 1994, Petty Officer Steve Mitchell, who also played for Björninn, started the first American military team in Iceland, the NATO North Stars. The team shared practice time with Björninn and played several teams in the Icelandic League in exhibitions.

Achievements Icelandic champion (1): 2012

Season-by-season record

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime Wins, OTL = Overtime Losses, L = Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points Season GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pts Finish Playoffs 2009–10 16 7 0 1 8 63 70 22 2nd Lost final 2008–09 20 3 0 1 16 10 75 105 3rd Did not qualify 2007–08 18 9 0 0 9 27 133 94 3rd Did not qualify 2006–07 16 7 1 0 8 23 74 73 3rd Did not qualify 2005–06 18 7 0 0 11 86 111 21 3rd Won third place game This table includes results from the last five years only.

Women's ice hockey History The clubs women's ice hockey team won the national championship in 2006. Achievements Icelandic champion (1): 2006

Figure Skating

Single Skating

History The main activity of the figure skating department was singles skating, starting from the Learn to Skate Program up to competitive levels.

Synchronized skating

History Björninn had two active teams of synchronized skating, Frostrósir and Ísbirnir.

Football Men's football Björninn first fielded a men's football team during the 2010 season in the Icelandic Cup and the 3. deild karla where it served as a feeder club for Ungmennafélagið Fjölnir. In 2019, Björninn finished first in group A of the 4. deild karla. It was knocked out of the playoffs the same year by Hvíti Riddarinn on a 1–4 aggregate score.

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References

External links Official site