Icelandic Women's Basketball Cup Explained

Icelandic Women's Basketball Cup
Current Season:	2022–23 Icelandic Women's Basketball Cup
Pixels:	120px
Sport:	Basketball
Founded:	1975 season
Continent:	Europe
Country:	Iceland
Champion:	Keflavík (16th title)
Most Champs:	Keflavík (16 titles)
Related Comps:	Úrvalsdeild kvenna Icelandic Supercup
Website:	KKI.is
Tv:	RÚV
Sponsor:	VÍS

The Icelandic Women's Basketball Cup (Icelandic: Bikarkeppni KKÍ) is an annual basketball competition between clubs in Iceland. It is Iceland's first-tier cup competition, and is not to be confused with Iceland's former second-tier cup competition, the Company Cup.

History and format

The first edition of the Icelandic Women's Cup championship took place in 1975, and was won by Þór Akureyri. All the rounds are played with a single game knockout format. The final four and the finals are played on a single weekend.^[1]

Finally, the winner of the Icelandic Cup championship, or the runner-up if the same team wins both the cup and national championship, will then face the winner of the Úrvalsdeild kvenna championship in a single game to determine the winner of the Icelandic Supercup championship in the beginning of the next season.^[2]

Sponsorship

The Cup was known as Geysir bikarinn for sponsorship reasons from 2018 to 2020.^[3]

In January 2021, VÍS was announced as the new sponsor for the cup competition.^[4]

Title holders

1974–75 Þór Akureyri
1975–76 KR
1976–77 KR
1977–78 ÍS
1978–79 ÍR
1979–80 ÍS
- - - - 1980–81 ÍS 1981–82 KR 1982–83 KR 1983–84 Haukar 1984–85 ÍS 1985–86 KR 1986–87 KR
1987–88 Keflavík
- - - - 1988–89 Keflavík 1989–90 Keflavík 1990–91 ÍS 1991–92 Haukar 1992–93 Keflavík 1993–94 Keflavík
- 1994–95 Keflavík 1995–96 Keflavík
  - - 1996–97 Keflavík 1997–98 Keflavík 1998–99 KR 1999–00 Keflavík
2000–01 KR
- - - - 2001–02 KR 2002–03 ÍS 2003–04 Keflavík 2004–05 Haukar 2005–06 ÍS 2006–07 Haukar
        2007–08 Grindavík 2008–09 KR 2009–10 Haukar 2010–11 Keflavík 2011–12 Njarðvík 2012–13 Keflavík 2013–14 Haukar 2014–15 Grindavík
2015–16 Snæfell
- - 2016–17 Keflavík 2017–18 Keflavík 2018–19 Valur
2019–20 Skallagrímur
- - 2020–21 Haukar 2021–22 Haukar 2022–23 Haukar
2023–24 Keflavík

Source

Cup Finals MVP

Year	Player	Position	Team
2010	^[5] ^[6]	Forward	Haukar
2011		Forward	Keflavík
2012		Guard	Njarðvík
2013		Guard	Keflavík
2014		Center	Haukar
2015		Forward	Grindavík
2016		Point guard	Snæfell
2017		Point guard	Keflavík
2018		Point guard	Keflavík
2019		Small forward	Valur
2020		Point guard	Skallagrímur
2021		Forward	Haukar
2022		Forward	Haukar
2023		Forward	Haukar