page_title: B71 Sandoy
section_title: Pre-season row, relegation and manager-shifts (2008–2009)
hierarchical_section_title: B71 Sandoy / The Club history / Pre-season row, relegation and manager-shifts (2008–2009)
caption_attribution_description: English: The football field of B71 Sandoy is Inni í Dal, which is halfway between Sandur and Skopun on the island Sandoy in the Faroe Islands. This photo was taken just after B71 Sandoy scored a goal against FC Suðuroy in Vodafonedeildin (The Faroese Premier League). Føroyskt: Inni í Dal á Sandoynni. Vodafonedystur millum B71 og FC Suðuroy 3-1. Dysturin varð spældur 2. mai 2010.
context_page_description: B71 is a Faroese sports club, playing their home games Inni í Dal, Sandur. Teams are made up of players from all the towns on the island of Sandoy.
context_section_description: The 2008 season was kicked off with B71 once again being named underdogs, but this time B71 didn't provide many surprises. Instead they went on a losing streak, only to salvage the first half of the season on the finishing line, when they played convincingly and won three of their last matches.
  B71 had been unsettled pre-season, with the departure and absence of many key-players. The most prominent of which was one Magnus Olsen.
  There was much controversy and tension between B71 and B36 regarding the player in question. Allegations of tapping up and player-poaching echoed from the B71 camp, while B36 kept refuting the claims, suggesting that the B71 board had been notified of the club's interest in Magnus.
  This resulted in many appeals and re-appeals to the highest footballing authority in The Faroe Islands, FSF. B71 were eventually deemed to have no case and Magnus Olsen's much coveted player license was transferred to B36.
  Apart from Magnus Olsen, players including Hanus Clementsen, Jóhannis Jensen and Clayton Soares were all ruled out, while successful defender Anders Rasmussen had left, during pre-season.
  Three games into the season, B71's talented young winger Rasmus Nielsen was injured in a bout with Fróði Benjaminsen and would be out for the entire first half of the season.
  The second part of the season was considered somewhat better than the first, with the team playing better football and producing fair results, but in the end they came up short with a meager 22 points. Despite the low point tally, B71 did have slim chances of avoiding relegation right up until the second-last match of the season, when they lost 0–1 at home against Víkingur
  Since the relegation became a reality, two key-players from the B71 squad signed with different clubs. Goalkeeper Símun Rógvi Hansen and talented midfielder Gudmund Nielsen, both 21, signed with HB and champions EB/Streymur, respectively.
  In addition to this, winger Rasmus Nielsen left during the break, to play for, then, newly promoted Tórshavn side, AB, while three of B71's four Brazilian players were released, leaving Clayton Soares as the only Brazilian to reprise his role in the team.
  At around the same time, coach Eli Hentze announced he had made the decision to step down from coaching B71's first-team. He was later replaced by Frankie Jensen, who hales from Sandoy, but lives in Tórshavn.
  Subsequently, it was announced that Frankie Jensen had been released from his contract, and Eli Hentze was appointed new head-coach, for the third time in his career and at the end of the '09 season, Eli Hentze stepped down, and former 07 Vestur coach, Piotr Krakowski, succeeded him. Appointing Piotr Krakowski has been dubbed coming home, by the media, for the highly rated coach, because of his affiliation with the team in the 1990s.
  B71 had, before this, clinched promotion to top-flight football, on the second to last match-day of the season, after just the one year in 1. Deild
caption: B71 vs. FC Suðuroy in Vodafonedeildin on 2. May 2010. B71 won the match 3–1. This is just after B71 scored one of their 3 goals.
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