Marked for Viktor Karl Einarsson
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.25 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Viktor Karl Einarsson scored, was marked 7.94, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kristófer Ingi Kristinsson. 5‑4 against Keflavik, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 9.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.25, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Dennis Olsson falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Johann Gudmundsson damages knee ligaments — 14 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 14 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Ásgeir Helgi Orrason has come out of that comparison in the side, and Breidablik have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Viktor Karl Einarsson. Breidablik will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Breidablik than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Keflavik next, and one man in the Breidablik dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Breidablik lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Breidablik out
Out, 1‑2 to Vikingur, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match22 Aug 2026
Breidablik win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 95th minute. KR will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Breidablik can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Dagur Örn Fjeldsted did not need any: 7.69, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$58.0K was the most the club would pay and Keflavik were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
He is 17 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.99 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Stjarnan wanted more than $960.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: BK Hacken keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dagur Skulason has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Johann Gudmundsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kristinn Saevarsson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kolbeinn Sigurdsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
309 appearances across 17 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Breidablik know exactly what they have.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.80 for the rest of it.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The offer went to Stjarnan this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kristinn Jónsson commits to Breidablik for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Breidablik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Aug 2026
Vikingur left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Breidablik, another week without a signature from Kristinn Jónsson.
Market3 Aug 2026
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.