1978 Úrvalsdeild
# 1978 Úrvalsdeild

Statistics of Úrvalsdeild in the 1978 season.

## Overview

It was contested by 10 teams, and Valur won the championship. ÍA's Pétur Pétursson was the top scorer with 19 goals.

## League standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Valur | 18 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 45 | 8 | +37 | 35 |
| 2 | ÍA | 18 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 47 | 13 | +34 | 29 |
| 3 | Keflavík | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 31 | 25 | +6 | 20 |
| 4 | ÍBV | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 29 | 24 | +5 | 19 |
| 5 | Víkingur | 18 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 27 | 31 | −4 | 19 |
| 6 | Fram | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 23 | 31 | −8 | 16 |
| 7 | Þróttur | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 22 | 27 | −5 | 14 |
| 8 | KA | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 38 | −24 | 11 |
| 9 | FH | 18 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 22 | 37 | −15 | 10 |
| 10 | Breiðablik | 18 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 19 | 45 | −26 | 7 |

## Results

Each team played every opponent once home and away for a total of 18 matches.

| Home \ Away | BRE | FH | FRA | ÍA | ÍBV | KA | ÍBK | VAL | VÍK | ÞRÓ |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Breiðablik | | 0–4 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–4 | 1–2 | 1–4 |
| FH | 1–3 | | 2–3 | 1–7 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 3–3 | 0–0 |
| Fram | 2–0 | 4–4 | | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 4–1 |
| ÍA | 4–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 5–0 | 3–2 |
| ÍBV | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 2–3 | | 6–2 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 3–0 |
| KA | 0–3 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–5 | 1–1 | | 0–5 | 0–0 | 2–5 | 0–0 |
| Keflavík | 3–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 2–3 | | 0–2 | 3–1 | 0–0 |
| Valur | 4–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 2–1 | | 3–0 | 1–0 |
| Víkingur | 3–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–4 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–5 | | 1–0 |
| Þróttur | 4–2 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 2–0 | |
