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Gilli Rólantsson

Faroese association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ15645125
Source-derived summary

Gilli Rólantsson Sørensen (born 11 August 1992) is a Faroese professional footballer who plays for Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag and the Faroe Islands national team.

Career

He has earlier played for TB Tvøroyri, B36 Tórshavn, AaB and the Scottish U19 team of Aberdeen F.C. He was the captain of the Faroese U21 national football team.

On 10 February 2021 he signed a two-year deal with Norwegian Eliteserien club Odd.

On 3 July 2023 he signed a one-year deal with Danish Superliga club Vejle. Due to the high competition and limited playing minutes, the parties agreed to terminate the collaboration on 20 December 2023. He soon returned to his hometown club TB Tvoroyri.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 28 May 2022

International goals

Scores and results list the Faroe Islands' goal tally first.

Editorial summary

“Gilli Rólantsson” enters the record as faroese association football player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gilli, Rólantsson and Faroese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 2021, 2023, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992-08-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gilli, Rólantsson and Faroese.
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“Gilli Rólantsson” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gilli, Rólantsson and Faroese provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15645125. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992, 2021, 2023 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from Gilli Rólantsson” 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.