Stoke appointed the football club's first overseas manager, Gudjon Thordarson, who helped Stoke City win the Football League Trophy and earn promotion to the First Division in 2001 – 02.

Despite achieving the goal of promotion, Thordarson was sacked by Gunnar Gíslason only days after the club won promotion.

Lyn struggled at the bottom of the table for most of the season but avoided relegation thanks to the efforts of team captain Tommy Berntsen, who took on the role as coach after Teitur Thordarson, the 5th coach in two years, had resigned.

Head coach Teitur Thordarson resigned at the end of 1999, leading the Estonian football association to look for a new coach.

A poem from around 1020, the Austrfaravísur (' Eastern-journey verses ') of Sigvat Thordarson, mentions that, as a Christian, he was refused board in a heathen household, in Sweden, because an álfablót (" elves ' sacrifice ") was being conducted there.

When he was released by Crewe, Gudjon Thordarson signed him for Notts County.

Gradi remained in charge of the team for two games during the Christmas period, with Thordarson taking over on 29 December.

Richardson managed to guide the club away from the relegation zone and held the manager's job until the end of the season when Gudjon Thordarson became the club's sixth manager in five years.

Þórbergur Þórðarson ( Thorbergur Thordarson ) ( Hali í Suðursveit, 12 March 1888 / 1889 — Reykjavík, 12 November 1974 ) was an Icelandic author and Esperantist.

Founded in 1986, the team played its final year in the second tier of the United States soccer pyramid in the NASL Conference of the USSF Division 2 Professional League coached by Teitur Thordarson.

* Thorvaldur Thordarson and Stephen Self.

* Thorvaldur Thordarson.

A rise in the FIFA rankings began after Icelandic coach Teitur Thordarson was appointed.

Results improved with the arrival of the newly independent team's first foreign coach, Icelandic Teitur Thordarson.

* Thordarson, D. B.

* Teitur Thordarson ( born 1952 ), Icelandic football coach.

Chester Hjortur Thordarson ( May 12, 1867-January 6, 1945 ) — born Hjörtur Þórðarson — was an Icelandic-American inventor who eventually held nearly a hundred patents.

Thordarson immigrated to the United States from Iceland in 1873.

His buildings have been added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Thordarson Estate Historic District.

Thordarson's company is now called Thordarson Meissner, Inc., and has locations in Mount Carmel, Illinois, and in Henderson, Nevada.

Attractions include the stone Viking boathouse and other structures built by inventor Chester H. Thordarson, Native American artifacts, as well as Potawatomi Lighthouse ( Wisconsin's oldest lighthouse ).

Under future national team manager Giuseppe Viani, promotion straight back up was achieved.

Coach Marcelino García Toral announced on 30 May 2007 that he would leave the club at the end of the season, subsequently joining Racing de Santander – he had also been the coach that previously achieved the 2006 promotion.

The maintenance and promotion of health is achieved through different combination of physical, mental, and social well-being, together sometimes referred to as the " health triangle ".

On 2 May 2011, Southampton effectively achieved promotion to the Championship after a 3 – 1 win at Plymouth Argyle, which was confirmed on 7 May with a 3 – 1 victory over Walsall.

Real Zaragoza achieved promotion from the second division at the first attempt.

In 2009, the first XI achieved promotion to the Home Counties Cricket League, and are therefore one division away from the highest level of club cricket in England and Wales.

On 21 May 2011, promotion to the football league was achieved when AFC Wimbledon won their Conference National play-off against Luton Town on penalty kicks ( after a goalless draw and extra time ) at City of Manchester Stadium This put Wimbledon back into English Football League, a remarkable achievement in such a short time.

Starting in the third tier of the Vale of Glamorgan Amateur Football League the team achieved great success in their first season back, achieving an unlikely cup-promotion double. The 2011-12 season saw the club gain their second promotion in three years to reach the premier division.

In 2010 / 2011, in what is now commonly referred to as the Invictus season, the college Rugby team under the leadership of Tom Blight achieved a perfect season, winning 10 games from 10 and in doing so gained a double promotion.

The 2nd XV also achieved promotion in 2011.

In the developing world, for decades, universal access to water and sanitation has been seen as the essential step in reducing the preventable ID burden, but it is now clear that this is best achieved by programs that integrate hygiene promotion with improvements in water quality and availability, and sanitation.

* A balance to be achieved: thus, the idea of defense of cultural diversity through the promotion of actions in favor of " cultural minorities " said to be disadvantaged ;

The local football team is Sorrento Calcio who play in the Stadio Italia, and have achieved promotion into Serie C1 of the Italian Football League.

However, his time at Selhurst Park was not a success, as he failed to save Palace from relegation and he resigned the following November as a disappointing start to the 1981 / 82 season saw their promotion hopes effectively written off ( promotion was ultimately not achieved for another seven seasons ).

Instant promotion was achieved the following year but Depor were relegated again at the end of the 1946 – 47 season.

Stoke achieved promotion from the 2nd Division in 1932 – 33 – as champions – however Matthews only featured in fifteen games in this season.

Durban achieved promotion to the First Division in the 1978 – 79 season, but after consolidating the club's position in the First Division he left to manage Sunderland in 1981.

The following season, 1992 – 93, promotion was achieved from the third tier.

The club achieved promotion to Premier B for the 2013 season.

Following eight more years back in the Second Division, Wolves finally achieved a return to top division football in 1932, claiming the Second Division title and another promotion.

UNESCO marks World Press Freedom Day by conferring the UNESCO / Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize on a deserving individual, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and / or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially when this has been achieved in the face of danger.

Promotion to the Third Division was finally achieved in 1973, their first promotion in 41 years of league football.

As a consequence the celebrations planned by the achieved promotion were suspended.