abroad. In 1930, a fourth club of the capital, Reykjavik Valur, won its first championship. During the 1930s, several foreign clubs came and played games on Icelandic soil. These matches were against some of the best clubs of the time (mostly against teams from England). The teams had started to tour Europe during this period, and it was during the first tour to the Faroe Islands in 1930 that takes place which can be likened to the first game of the Icelandic national team. Indeed, a selection of fifteen Icelandic players (two of them will follow one another at the head of the Federation twenty years later) made the trips to the neighboring island, first confronting a local club. The second match pits a selection of the best Faroese players. Albert Guðmundsson became the first professional footballer from Iceland. Women's football in Iceland The first women's football team in Iceland was Fótboltafélagið Hvöt that was founded in 1914. However, public opinion meant that the early women's football did not last. Thoughts around the sport re-emerged in 1970, with consideration from KSÍ, the Football Association of Iceland, for it being public in the early half of the year. By the end of the year a friendly match would be organised between a selected XI from each of Reykjavík and Keflavík, with the capital team winning. The national league would form the next year, though only indoors at first, with the transition to the modern day outdoor league coming another year after, in 1972. 8 teams would participate in the inaugural season, though few of Iceland's traditional footballing heavyweights would participate at first, with the main expansion coming in 1982. Today, the federation manages the national championship and the women's national team. Breiðablik UBK is the dominating women's football in Iceland, unlike its male counterpart (16 titles for the women versus one for the men). The national side played its first official game in 1981, though games were not regular at first and they did not play across 1988-1991. Even though they have never qualified for a World Cup, they have four consecutive appearances in the European Championship, where they have reached the quarterfinals in 1995 and 2013, being the smallest UEFA nations to qualify and to reach the knockout stages. Modern development In 2012, the Icelandic Men's National Football Team were placed 122nd in the FIFA World Rankings. Since then, the