FAROES-FAIR ENOUGH

On this day in 1990, the Faroe Islands thumped Austria 1-0 in a Euro Qualifier. The Faroese boys were at home, but actually playing in Sweden because they have no grass pitches that far north, only astros! UEFA wouldn't like astro would they?
One great result in the qualifiers was a 1-1 draw with Northern Ireland at Windsor Park however they lost the next 5 ties. In all Euro qualifiers the "National Team" have played 70 games, won 7 drawn 7 conceded 184, scored 34. World Cup qualifiers are similarly one sided! as we would expect.

So to play fair, the Faroes FA travelled as instructed and won.
With a population of around 46,000 and nicknamed "Landslioio"-you guessed it-"the National team". It was a building company salesman, Torkil Nielsen who scored the goal.
Founded as a national team played friendly matches from 1930 against Iceland, Shetland, Orkney, Greenland and Denmark U21s. On the 8th August 1988 they played their first official match against Iceland and won 1-0. At the same time they joined FIFA. On 1990 they joined UEFA and are the smallest nation in the Association.
Their biggest wins have been with a three goal difference against San Marino 3-0 in 1995, Gilbraltar away in 2014, 4-1 and v Liechtenstein a 3-0 win in Marbella in March 2018.
I have written about the "Island Games" before and the Faroes fair well in this tournament. In 1989 and 1991 they won the whole thing unbeaten.
Frooi Benjaminsen is their most capped player with 95 and managers have included Allan Simonsen of Borussia Monchen and Barcelona, Henrik Larsen, Brian Kerr (Ireland) and Lars Olsen.
The present round of matches in the UEFA Nations League D ("minnows") are:
v Malta 3-1 win and Kosovo (loss 0-2) and Azerbaijan are waiting in the wings.

The country's first club was formed in 1892 known as Tvoroyrar Boltfelag; there are now 10 teams in their league known as the Vodafonedeildin......spot the sponsor and below, the islands.
There they are....