Iceland national handball team

Iceland
Information
Nickname	Strákarnir okkar (English: Our boys)
Association	Icelandic Handball Association (Handknattleikssamband Íslands)
Coach	Geir Sveinsson[1]
Assistant coach	Óskar Bjarni Óskarsson
Most caps	Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson (407)
Most goals	Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson (1707)
Colours
Home Away
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	7 (First in 1972)
Best result	2nd (2008)
World Championship
Appearances	17 (First in 1958)
Best result	5th (1997)
European Championship
Appearances	9 (First in 2000)
Best result	3rd (2010)
Last updated on Unknown.

Iceland national handball team

Medal record
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	Team
European Championship
	2010 Austria

The Iceland national handball team is the national handball team of Iceland and is controlled by the Icelandic Handball Association.

Competitive record

     Champions       Runners-up       Third Place       Fourth Place  

Olympic Games

Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1936 Berlin	Did not enter
Not held from 1948 to 1968
1972 Munich	Match for 11th place	12th of 16	5	1	1	3	92	90	+2
1976 Montreal	Did not qualify
1980 Moscow
1984 Los Angeles	Match for 5th place	6th of 12	6	3	1	2	126	122	+4
1988 Seoul	Match for 7th place	8th of 12	6	2	1	3	125	133	−8
1992 Barcelona	Fourth Place	4th of 12	7	3	1	3	140	146	−6
1996 Atlanta	Did not qualify
2000 Sydney
2004 Athens	Match for 9th place	9th of 12	6	2	0	4	172	183	−11
2008 Beijing	Runners-up	2nd of 12	8	4	2	2	242	234	+8
2012 London	Quarter-finals	5th of 12	6	5	0	1	200	166	+34
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Not yet qualified
Total	7/12	0 Titles	44	20	6	18	1,097	1,074	+23

World Championships

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1938 Germany	Did not participate
1954 Sweden
1958 East Germany	Preliminary round	10th of 16	3	1	0	2	46	57	−11
1961 West Germany	Main round	6th of 12	6	2	1	3	85	96	−11
1964 Czechoslovakia	Preliminary round	9th of 16	3	2	0	1	40	39	+1
1967 Sweden	Did not participate
1970 France	Placement round	11th of 16	6	2	0	4	96	112	−16
1974 East Germany	Preliminary round	14th of 16	3	0	0	3	48	66	−18
1978 Denmark	Preliminary round	13th of 16	3	0	0	3	54	68	−14
1982 West Germany	Did not participate
1986 Switzerland	Main round	6th of 16	8	4	0	4	179	188	−9
1990 Czechoslovakia	Main round	10th of 16	8	2	0	6	166	186	−20
1993 Sweden	Main round	8th of 16	8	4	0	4	178	175	+3
1995 Iceland	Round of 16	14th of 24	6	3	0	3	131	132	−1
1997 Japan	Quarter-finals	5th of 24	9	7	1	1	236	203	+33
1999 Egypt	Did not participate
2001 France	Round of 16	11th of 24	6	2	1	3	152	150	+2
2003 Portugal	Ranking games	7th of 24	9	6	0	3	308	234	+74
2005 Tunisia	Preliminary round	15th of 24	5	2	1	2	154	144	+10
2007 Germany	Quarter-finals	8th of 24	10	4	0	6	276	247	+29
2009 Croatia	Did not participate
2011 Sweden	Ranking games	6th of 24	9	5	0	4	327	294	+33
2013 Spain	Round of 16	12th of 24	6	3	0	3	181	166	+15
2015 Qatar	Round of 16	11th of 24	6	2	1	3	152	165	−13
2017 France	Not yet qualified
Total	18/25	0 Titles	106	47	5	54	2,482	2,428	+54

European Championships

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1994 Portugal	Did not participate
1996 Spain
1998 Italy
2000 Croatia	Match for 11th place	11th of 12	5	0	0	5	121	137	−16
2002 Sweden	Fourth Place	4th of 16	10	5	3	2	221	209	+12
2004 Slovenia	Preliminary round	13th of 16	3	0	1	2	87	96	−9
2006 Switzerland	Main round	7th of 16	8	3	2	3	190	191	−1
2008 Norway	Main round	11th of 16	8	2	0	6	151	178	−27
2010 Austria	Third Place	3rd of 16	8	4	3	1	249	240	+9
2012 Serbia	Main round	10th of 16	6	2	1	3	177	178	−1
2014 Denmark	Fifth place game	5th of 16	7	4	1	2	199	199	0
2016 Poland	Preliminary round	13th of 16	3	1	0	2	92	101	−9
2018 Croatia	Not yet qualified
Total	9/12	0 Titles	57	21	11	26	1,487	1,529	−42

Team

Current squad

This is the squad for the 2016 European Men's Handball Championship.^[2]

Head coach: Aron Kristjánsson

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Björgvin Páll Gústavsson 24 May 1985 1.93 m 174 4 Bergischer HC 2 P Vignir Svavarsson 20 June 1980 1.94 m 230 261 HC Midtjylland 3 P Kári Kristjánsson 28 October 1984 1.98 m 107 124 ÍBV 4 LB Aron Pálmarsson 19 July 1990 1.93 m 105 407 MKB Veszprém 5 RB Rúnar Kárason 24 May 1988 1.96 m 65 130 TSV Hannover-Burgdorf 6 RB Ásgeir Örn Hallgrímsson 17 February 1984 1.91 m 230 392 USAM Nîmes 7 LB Arnór Atlason 23 July 1984 1.91 m 178 412 Saint-Raphaël 9 LW Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson 8 August 1979 1.87 m 322 1707 FC Barcelona 10 CB Snorri Guðjónsson 17 October 1981 1.87 m 255 842 USAM Nîmes 12 GK Aron Rafn Eðvarðsson 1 September 1989 2.02 m 61 4 Aalborg Håndbold 13 LB Ólafur Guðmundsson* 13 May 1990 1.94 m 67 65 IFK Kristianstad 14 RW Arnór Þór Gunnarsson 23 October 1987 1.81 m 57 126 Bergischer HC 15 RB Alexander Petersson 2 July 1980 1.86 m 173 694 Rhein-Neckar Löwen 18 P Róbert Gunnarsson 22 May 1980 1.90 m 272 770 Paris Saint-Germain 22 LW Stefán Rafn Sigurmannsson 19 May 1990 1.96 m 52 59 Rhein-Neckar Löwen 26 P Bjarki Már Gunnarsson 10 August 1988 2.01 m 44 11 EHV Aue 28 CB Guðmundur Hólmar Helgason 5 August 1992 1.92 m 10 4 Valur

Apps and goals correct as of 19 January 2016 from the HSÍ website.^[3][4] Ólafur Guðmundsson replaced Kári Kristján Kristjánsson on 17 January^[5]

Past squads

2008 Olympic Games (2nd place)

All Star Team: Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson (left wing), Snorri Guðjónsson (centre back), Ólafur Stefánsson (right back)

Björgvin Páll Gústavsson, Logi Geirsson, Bjarni Fritzson, Sigfús Sigurðsson, Ásgeir Örn Hallgrímsson, Arnór Atlason, Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson, Snorri Guðjónsson, Ólafur Stefánsson, Sturla Ásgeirsson, Alexander Petersson, Hreiðar Guðmundsson, Sverre Andreas Jakobsson, Róbert Gunnarsson, Ingimundur Ingimundarson.

Coach: Guðmundur Guðmundsson

2010 European Championship (3rd place)

All Star Team: Ólafur Stefánsson (right back)

Björgvin Páll Gústavsson, Hreiðar Guðmundsson, Vignir Svavarsson, Logi Geirsson, Ásgeir Örn Hallgrímsson, Arnór Atlason, Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson, Snorri Guðjónsson, Ólafur Stefánsson, Alexander Petersson, Sverre Andreas Jakobsson, Róbert Gunnarsson, Ingimundur Ingimundarson, Sturla Ásgeirsson, Þórir Ólafsson, Aron Pálmarsson, Ólafur Guðmundsson, Rúnar Kárason.

Coach: Guðmundur Guðmundsson

List of captains

#	Period	Captain
N/A	2005	Dagur Sigurðsson
2005	2012	Ólafur Stefánsson
2012	-	Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson

List of coaches

#	Period	Coach
1	1950	Sigurður Magnússon
2	1958	Hallsteinn Hinriksson
3	1959	Frímann Gunnlaugsson
4	1961–1963	Hinrik Hallsteinsson
5	1964–1967	Karl Benediktsson
6	1968	Birgir Björnsson
7	1968–1972	Hilmar Björnsson
(5)	1973–1974	Karl Benediktsson
(6)	1974–1975	Birgir Björnsson
8	1975–1976	Viðar Símonarson
9	1976–1977	Janus Czerwinsky
(6)	1977–1978	Birgir Björnsson
10	1978–1980	Jóhann Ingi Gunnarsson
(7)	1980–1983	Hilmar Björnsson
11	1983–1990	Bogdan Kowalczyk
12	1990–1995	Þorbergur Aðalsteinsson
13	1995–2001	Þorbjörn Jensson
14	2001–2004	Guðmundur Guðmundsson
15	2004–2006	Viggó Sigurðsson
16	2006–2008	Alfreð Gíslason
(14)	2008–2012	Guðmundur Guðmundsson
17	2012–2016	Aron Kristjánsson
18	2016–present	Geir Sveinsson

Individual all-time records

  Still active players are highlighted.

Most matches played Total number of matches played in official competitions only. # Player Matches Goals 1 Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson 407 0 2 Geir Sveinsson 340 502 3 Ólafur Stefánsson 330 1,570 4 Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson 322 1,707 5 Júlíus Jónasson 288 703 6 Róbert Gunnarsson 272 770 7 Valdimar Grímsson 271 940 8 Snorri Steinn Guðjónsson 255 842 9 Þorgils Óttar Mathiesen 247 575 Jakob Óskar Sigurðsson 247 303 Last updated: 19 January 2016 Source: Icelandic Handball Association (hsi.is)

Most goals scored Total number of goals scored in official matches only. # Player Goals Matches Average 1 Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson 1,707 322 5.30 2 Ólafur Stefánsson 1,570 330 4.76 3 Kristján Arason 1,123 245 4.58 4 Valdimar Grímsson 940 271 3.47 5 Snorri Steinn Guðjónsson 842 255 3.30 6 Róbert Gunnarsson 770 272 2.83 7 Sigurður Valur Sveinsson 736 242 3.04 8 Júlíus Jónasson 703 288 2.44 9 Alexander Petersson 694 173 4.01 10 Patrekur Jóhannesson 634 241 2.63 Last updated: 19 January 2016 Source: Icelandic Handball Association (hsi.is)

Record against Nordic countries

All games, including European Championships, World Championships and Olympic Games.

Opponent	Played	Win	Draw	Lost
Denmark	107	35	15	55
Faroe Islands	13	12	0	1
Finland	13	9	3	1
Greenland	3	3	0	0
Norway	88	41	15	29
Sweden	67	10	3	54

Last updated: 2 January 2016
Source: Icelandic Handball Association (hsi.is)

Kit suppliers

Since 2006, Iceland's kits have been supplied by Kempa.

References

1. "Geir Sveinsson tekur við landsliðinu". hsi.is (in Icelandic). Icelandic Handball Association. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
2. 2016 European Championship roster
3. http://www.hsi.is/landslid/a-landslid-karla/landslidsmenn/
4. "17 manna hópurinn fyrir Pólland klár". Icelandic Handball Accociaton (in Icelandic). Retrieved 12 January 2016.
5. "Ólafur Guðmundsson inn í landsliðshóp Íslands" (in Icelandic). Icelandic Handball Association. Retrieved 17 January 2016.

External links

• Official website
• IHF profile