Faroe Islands, which have a 136th Fifa ranking, stunned Czech Republic 2-1, thanks to a late winner from substitute Martin Agnarsson a minute after coming on.

The country situated on the bank of North Atlantics, which have a population of only 55,000 had also shocked Montenegro 4-0 on Thursday and now sit third in Group L, one point below the second-placed Czechs with one match to go.

Hanus Sorensen put Faroe Islands ahead in the second half, with Adam Karabec equalising for the visitor in the 78th minute. Then a defensive mistake from 39th-ranked Czech Republic allowed Agnarsson to shoot into an empty net three minutes later, sealing the win.

Faroe Islands, who has won four World Cup qualifiers in a single cycle for the first time, will look to keep its dream of reaching a maiden World Cup finals alive when it visits group leader Croatia on 14th November.

Faroese football did not have a proper ground. The game was played on rough ground and in an amateurish manner, without any organized youth training system and facilities. The national team, built-up in an unprepared manner, could only take part in friendly matches, mostly against neighbour, Shetland. They only got the opportunity to play a national game away from home in 1962 against Iceland.

In the late 1980’s Faroese football gets its biggest break. The Faroe Islands became a full member of UEFA and FIFA.

On September 12th, 1990, the Faroe Islands National Football team played the first qualifying match in the Euro 92 qualifiers. After a number of friendlies with varying results, 33-year-old Icelandic coach Páll Guolaugsson felt the 11 amateurs were ready to be on the pitch in the Swedish town of Landskrona.

As there was no certified grass pitch in the Faroe Islands the home ground is moved to Sweden. Nobody in the Faroe Islands knew about Landskrona before the match.

Faroe Island made their biggest upset in the world of international football when the amateur team upstaged the professional football team of Austria in September in 1990.

In 2005 jogvan Martin Olsen became the first Faroese national to become national manager. Faroese football was in transition as the results show.

After a year and a half of searching for the right formula, his greatest result came in the second-to-last game of his tenure, when Austria came to visit in the World Cup 2010 qualifier. Bogi Lokin scored the goal for the Faroe Islands.

With the amazing development of national team, infrastructure developed, foreign footballers from Latin America and Europe started joining the premier division of Faroe Islands. Simultaneously, players of the Faroe Islands national team started getting offers from different lower-division teams across Brazil and Europe.