The IA Gazette
Squad3 Aug 2026
13 seasons of Steinar Þorsteinsson
199 appearances across 13 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and IA know what they have.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for IA — 7.32
1 for Böðvar Böðvarsson, marked 7.32, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gísli Eyjólfsson signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gísli Eyjólfsson and IA agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Guðmundur Þórarinsson 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 IA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at IA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erik Tobias Sandberg is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match1 Aug 2026
IA come up short against KR
KR left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Erik Tobias Sandberg's contract
49 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Talks stall between IA and Haukur Andri Haraldsson
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market3 Aug 2026
Balthasar A. Eck is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at IA has been clear about where Balthasar A. Eck stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
- Market Einar Karl Ingvarsson brings the grey hairs IA lacked
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Gísli Eyjólfsson