Alpha Conteh

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Keflavik
4 Sep 2026
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The Keflavik Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Sindri Kristinn Ólafsson keeps Keflavik in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 16 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

The cup run ends for Keflavik

1‑3 against Stjarnan, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Market

Ásgeir Orri Magnússon hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Keflavik can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Anton Kralj did the work nobody counts — 7.63

15 combined actions and 7.63. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Squad

Nacho Heras in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Keflavik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Ásgeir Páll Magnússon told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ásgeir Páll Magnússon has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Keflavik.

The dugout

Muhamed Alghoul gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Keflavik

6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

Nacho Heras dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

  • Match Keflavik and Valur take a point apiece
  • The dugout Anton Kralj has become a man the manager trusts
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
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The Keflavik Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

15 seasons of Frans Elvarsson

371 appearances across 15 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Keflavik know what they have.

Squad

6 saves: Sindri Kristinn Ólafsson was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

Sindri Kristinn Ólafsson stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Sindri Kristinn Ólafsson and Keflavik agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

A hand in 2 of them from Halid Alghoul — 7.62

Marked 7.62. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

Match

Keflavik come up short against IBV

IBV left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A row about effort at Keflavik

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dagur Ingi Valsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Fylkir watching Edon Osmani

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Keflavik have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

Still no ink between Keflavik and Nacho Heras

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Keflavik, another week without a signature from Nacho Heras.

Market

Nobody at Keflavik has picked up the phone to Sindri Kristinn Ólafsson

49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief