‘Locals have accepted rules’: football returns to Covid-19-free Faroe Islands

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Restrictions remain as players and fans adapt to stadiums with just 50 people but European domestic football is officially back

The last time KI Klaksvik and B36 Torshavn met, last October, it was to decide the destiny of the Premier League title, a match that attracted a record 6,000 people – about 11.5% of the population of the Faroe Islands. On Saturday they played again, with no more than 50 people allowed into the stadium including the 22 players on the field, as European domestic football got back under way on the rocky archipelago between Scotland and Iceland.

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Written by Tróndur Arge
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‘Locals have accepted rules’: football returns to Covid-19-free Faroe Islands

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