were forecasting Fram to win the league, but the team had difficulties scoring goals. Not much changed in the summer of 2013: in the middle of the summer Þorvaldur Örlygsson quit and Ríkharður Daðason was hired. Ríkharður started very well and in the end he won the VISA Cup, the first big title Fram had won in football for 23 years. After that cup final, however, things went downhill and the team lost most of the remaining games of the season. 2014–: New manager, new team Ríkharður Daðason did not stay long, and after arguments with the Board about money to buy players he decided to quit. He was replaced by Bjarni Guðjónsson. With him came big changes: all the foreign players were sold, along with some of the bigger names in the squad such as Sam Hewson and Hólmbert Friðjónsson. Instead he bought young Icelandic players from other Icelandic teams, and his own brother Jóhannes Karl Guðjónsson. European adventures Fram Reykjavik has a long tradition of playing in both UEFA Cup and European Champions League. Still today Fram remains the only Icelandic team ever to play against both Real Madrid C.F. and Barça in European competitions. The first one was in the year of 1971 against Hibernians F.C. from Malta. Both matches were exceptionally played at Malta and Fram lost the first match 3–0 but won the second leg 2–0. In 1973 FC Basel came to Iceland and won very easily in both matches against Fram Reykjavik. In 1974 Fram traveled to Madrid in European Cup to play against Real Madrid C.F. at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. Madrid won 6–0 but at Laugardalsvöllur it looked almost the whole match as it would end up in draw until on 74th minute when Real scored a goal and again in the last seconds of the match. In 1976 Fram Reykjavik lost against Slovan Bratislava. In 1985 Northern Ireland was Fram next stop when Fram Reykjavik won an easy victory against Glentoran F.C. in round two same the Austrian Bundesliga giants Rapid Vienna which Fram lost overall with only one goal which has to be one of the best performance of Icelandic team ever. In 1986 Fram traveled to Poland to play against Katowice in a very even duel Fram eventually lost. Sparta Prague came to Reykjavík 1987 to play against Fram Reykjavik at Laugardalsvöllur stadium. They were simply too big for the