[5][6] A year later, future actress Anna Borg founded a short lived football team in Reykjavík.

A year later the transition to the modern day outdoor league came with 8 teams participating in the inaugural season.

Few of Iceland's traditional footballing heavyweights participated at first, but came in with the main expansion in 1982.

[citation needed] Besta deild kvenna is the highest tier of women's football in Iceland.

[8] Since the 21st Century Iceland has seen an upsurge of success with the national team qualifying for the UEFA Women's Championship four times and their greatest achievement was reaching the quarter finals of UEFA Women's Euro 2013.