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2021 Icelandic Cup

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ106168537 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2021 Icelandic Cup, also known as Mjólkurbikarinn for sponsorship reasons, was the 62nd edition of the Icelandic national football cup.

First round

64 clubs competed in the first round. The matches were played from 22 to 26 April 2021.

1 Match awarded.

Second round

A total of 40 teams competed in the second round. Ties were played from 30 April–2 May.

Third round (round of 32)

A total of 32 teams competed in this round of the competition, with the clubs from the Úrvalsdeild entering at this stage. Ties were played from 22 to 24 June.

Fourth round (round of 16)

A total of sixteen teams competed in the fourth round, with matches played on 26, 27 and 28 June.

Quarter-finals (round of 8)

A total of eight teams competed in the quarter-finals, with matches played on 15 September.

Editorial summary

“2021 Icelandic Cup” enters the record as football tournament season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Icelandic, football and tournament can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Icelandic, football and tournament.
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Why this record matters

“2021 Icelandic Cup” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Icelandic, football and tournament provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106168537. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “2021 Icelandic Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.