‘Fighting with nature’: Iceland’s Grindavík play again after 18-month seismic gap

The Grindavík men's football team played their first game in Grindavík for 18 months yesterday. There has been no sporting activity in the town since it was evacuated due to fires in early November 2023. Grindavík met Fjölnir in a thrilling match that ended 3-3 in the Lengjudeild men's football league, which is the second highest league. Here you can see pictures from the pitch, some incidents from the game and Grindvíking fans. The latest data …

‘Fighting with nature’: Iceland’s Grindavík play again after 18-month seismic gap

The town was ripped apart and the economy decimated. But now the football club will make an emotional return It was about 7pm when UMF Grindavík’s players finished training in the club’s indoor hall. There had been seismic activity in the area all day but, in this harbour town to the south of Iceland’s famous Blue Lagoon, everybody had become wearily used to that. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions had been a discomfiting, menacing backdrop to t…