Jákup Johansen

Jákup Johansen took the long way to the Faroese top flight, spending the best part of a decade with Skála ÍF before a first stint away at ÍF Fuglafjørður and a return to Skála that turned him into a genuine goalscoring midfielder — 47 goals in 128 league appearances across that second spell. That record persuaded Víkingur Gøta to sign him on a free transfer in January 2020, and he has since become one of the club's mainstays from midfield, left-footed, with 46 goals from 157 league outings.

The title he had chased for years arrived in 2024, when Víkingur won the Meistaradeildin with Johansen in the squad. He had missed out on the club's earlier championships in 2016 and 2017, before his arrival, which makes the 2024 triumph the one that belongs to him.

His international career, by contrast, remains a single entry: a substitute appearance for the Faroe Islands against Iceland on 4 June 2021, coming on in the 84th minute of a match his side lost 0–1. It has not been repeated since.