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Iceland
Nickname(s)	Strákarnir okkar
Association	Knattspyrnusamband Íslands
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Ólafur Jóhannesson
Asst coach	Pétur Pétursson
Captain	Hermann Hreiðarsson
Most caps	Rúnar Kristinsson (104)
Top scorer	Eiður Guðjohnsen (24)
Home stadium	Laugardalsvöllur (Reykjavík)
FIFA code	ISL
FIFA ranking	92
Highest FIFA ranking	37 (September 1994)
Lowest FIFA ranking	117 (August 2007)
Elo ranking	92
Highest Elo ranking	43 (26 september 1994)
Lowest Elo ranking	139 (19 february 2008)
Home colours	Away colours
First international
	Faroe Islands 0 – 1 Iceland ; (Faroe Islands; 29 July 1930)
Biggest win
	Iceland 9 – 0 Faroe Islands ; (Keflavík, Iceland; 10 July 1985)
Biggest defeat
	Denmark 14 – 2 Iceland ; (Copenhagen, Denmark; 23 August 1967)

A friendly match between Iceland and Slovakia, at the Laugardalsvöllur in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The Iceland national football team is the national football team of Iceland and is controlled by the Football Association of Iceland. It has never advanced to the finals of any major international competition.

For the Euro 2004, Iceland were led by Ásgeir Sigurvinsson topping the group table for a while, with 4 wins and even held Germany to a 0–0 draw in Reykjavík, however both Germany and Scotland had a game in hand to them and both used them to their maximum potential, with Scotland beating Lithuania and Germany beat Scotland in Germany's penultimate game. Iceland failed to grind a result in their final game against Germany, and Scotland pipped them to a play-off place. Iceland have failed to match this since, finishing on just 4 points for the 2006 World Cup qualifiers and 8 points from their Euro 2008 qualifying campaign.

Iceland were knocked out in the quarter finals of the 2001 Millennium Super Cup to a Chilean Football League XI, this was following a 3-0 victory over hosts India.

Perhaps its most notable match was a friendly against Estonia on 24 April 1996 in Tallinn. During the second half of this match, Eiður Guðjohnsen entered as a substitute for his father Arnór. This marked the first time that a father and son played in the same international match. Another landmark for Icelandic football was the 2–0 upset victory over Italy in a friendly at Laugardalsvöllur, 18 August 2004^[1] with 20,204 fans in attendance, an Icelandic record.^[2]

[edit] World Cup record

1930 to 1950 – Did not enter
1954 – Entry not accepted by FIFA
1958 – Did not qualify
1962 to 1970 – Did not enter
1974 to 2010 – Did not qualify

[edit] European Championship record

1960 – Did not enter
1964 – Did not qualify
1968 – Did not enter
1972 – Did not enter
1976 to 2008 – Did not qualify

[edit] 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification

Main article: 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 9

Team v • d • e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Netherlands	8	8	0	0	17	2	+15	24
Norway	8	2	4	2	9	7	+2	10
Scotland	8	3	1	4	6	11	−5	10
Macedonia	8	2	1	5	5	11	−6	7
Iceland	8	1	2	5	7	13	−6	5


Iceland	–	1 – 0	1 – 2	1 – 1	1 – 2
Macedonia	2 – 0	–	1 – 2	0 – 0	1 – 0
Netherlands	2 – 0	4 – 0	–	2 – 0	3 – 0
Norway	2 – 2	2 – 1	0 – 1	–	4 – 0
Scotland	2 – 1	2 – 0	0 – 1	0 – 0	–

[edit] Current Squad

Called up for the friendly against South Africa on 14 October 2009

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Árni Gautur Arason	7 May 1975 (1975-05-07) (age 34)	66	0	Odd Grenland
	GK	Gunnleifur Gunnleifsson	14 June 1975 (1975-06-14) (age 34)	10	0	FH
	DF	Grétar Steinsson	9 January 1982 (1982-01-09) (age 27)	32	4	Bolton Wanderers
	DF	Ragnar Sigurðsson	19 June 1986 (1986-06-19) (age 23)	11	0	IFK Göteborg
	MF	Stefán Gíslason ^	15 March 1980 (1980-03-15) (age 29)	27	0	Brøndby
	MF	Emil Hallfreðsson	29 June 1984 (1984-06-29) (age 25)	24	1	Barnsley
	FW	Eiður Guðjohnsen	15 September 1978 (1978-09-15) (age 31)	60	24	Monaco
	FW	Heiðar Helguson	22 August 1977 (1977-08-22) (age 32)	43	8	Watford
	MF	Arnar Smárason	7 September 1988 (1988-09-07) (age 21)	5	1	Heerenveen
	FW	Garðar Jóhannsson	1 April 1980 (1980-04-01) (age 29)	1	0	Fredrikstad

^ Misses game vs Macedonia through suspension

[edit] Recent call-ups

The following players have all recently been called up to the Iceland squad. Bracket shows last call-up time.

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	MF	Davíð Þór Viðarsson	24 April 1984 (1984-04-24) (age 25)	6	0	FH
	FW	Guðmundur Steinarsson	20 September 1979 (1979-09-20) (age 30)	3	0	Keflavik

[edit] Most capped Icelandic players

As of 7 June 2009, the ten players with the most caps for Iceland are:

#	Name	Career	Caps	Goals
1	Rúnar Kristinsson	1987-2004	104	3
2	Hermann Hreiðarsson*	1996-	85	5
3	Guðni Bergsson	1984-2003	80	1
4	Birkir Kristinsson	1988-2004	74	0
5	Arnór Guðjohnsen	1979-1997	73	14
6	Ólafur Þórðarson	1984-1996	72	5
7	Arnar Grétarsson*	1991-2004	71	2
8	Atli Eðvaldsson	1976-1991	70	9
9	Sævar Jónsson	1980-1992	69	1
=	Brynjar Björn Gunnarsson*	1997-	69	4

 * denotes a player still playing or available for selection.

[edit] Top Icelandic goalscorers

As of 5 September 2009, List of leading goalscorers for the Icelandic national football team:

#	Name	Career	Goals	Caps
1	Eiður Guðjohnsen*	1996-	24	59
2	Ríkharður Jónsson	1947-65	17	33
3	Ríkharður Daðason	1991-2003	14	44
=	Arnór Guðjohnsen	1979-97	14	73
5	Þórður Guðjónsson*	1993-2004	13	58
6	Tryggvi Guðmundsson*	1997-	12	42
7	Pétur Pétursson	1978-90	11	41
=	Matthías Hallgrímsson	1968-77	11	45
9	Helgi Sigurðsson*	1993-	10	63
=	Eyjólfur Sverrisson	1990-2001	10	66

the * denotes a player still playing or available for selection.

[edit] National coaches

The first four national coaches (1946-9) only managed the team for a single game.

Frederick Steele & Murdo McDougall (1946)
Roland Bergström (1947)
Joe Devene (1948)
Fritz Buchloh - (1949)
Óli B. Jónsson (1951)
Franz Köhler (1953)
Karl Guðmundsson (1954-6)
Alexander Wier (1957)
Óli B. Jónsson (1958)
Karl Guðmundsson (1959)
Óli B. Jónasson (1960)
Karl Guðmundsson (1961)
Ríkharður Jónsson - (1962)
Karl Guðmundsson (1963-6)
Reynir Karlsson (1967)
Walter Pfeiffer (1968)
Ríkharður Jónsson (1969-71)
Duncan McDowell (1972)
Eggert Jóhannesson (1972)
Henning Enoksen (1973)
Tony Knapp - (1974-7)
Jurí Ilitchev (1978-9)
Guðni Kjartansson (1980-1)
Jóhannes Atlason (1982-3)
Tony Knapp (1984-5)
Siegfried Held (1986-9)
Guðni Kjartansson (1989)
Bo Johansson (1990-1)
Ásgeir Elíasson (1991-5)
Logi Ólafsson - (1996-7)
Guðjón Þórðarson (1997-9)
Atli Eðvaldsson (2000-3)
Ásgeir Sigurvinsson & Logi Ólafsson (2003-5)
Eyjólfur Sverrisson (2006-7)
Ólafur Jóhannesson (2007-?)

[edit] References

^ "Leikskýrsla" (in Icelandic). 2004-08-18. http://www.ksi.is/mot/motalisti/leikskyrsla?Leikur=66722. Retrieved 2008-07-02.
^ "The Football Association of Iceland". http://www.ksi.is/english/. Retrieved 2008-07-02.

[edit] External links

[0] "Leikskýrsla" (in Icelandic). 2004-08-18. http://www.ksi.is/mot/motalisti/leikskyrsla?Leikur=66722. Retrieved 2008-07-02.

[1] "The Football Association of Iceland". http://www.ksi.is/english/. Retrieved 2008-07-02.

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