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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Fylkir
Gísli Gottskálk Þórðarson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Arnar Númi Gíslason
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Arnar Númi Gíslason has come out of that comparison in the side, and Fylkir have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Gísli Gottskálk Þórðarson is on it.
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Steady
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clock did what FH would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Fylkir
Máni Austmann and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.92 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Fylkir had the best player on the pitch.
Squad31 Aug 2026
23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A touch he did not mean and a goal that goes in the book with his name against it. Fylkir will not blame him tonight and he will not need them to.
Match29 Aug 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match19 Aug 2026
Fylkir bow out of the cup
KR go through and Fylkir go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match22 Aug 2026
FH take the points off Fylkir
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Fylkir ran out of time with Stjarnan. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Fylkir
Máni Austmann was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Sverrir Hermannsson left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Fylkir are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alfred Eyjolfsson commits to Fylkir for another 3 years.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Nobody at Fylkir will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Triumph
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 12 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match15 Aug 2026
Fylkir through in the cup
A 2‑0 win over Keflavik, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match12 Aug 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Fylkir scored in the 100th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.93 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Fylkir and Stjarnan have settled on $82.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Fylkir close the window on a squad of their own making
15 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Donart Lubishtani has just signed for Fylkir, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Fylkir
Orri Sveinn Segatta and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Lech, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad10 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Fylkir have gone to FH with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mikael Saevarsson 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alfred Eyjolfsson 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dagur Adalsteinsson has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sverrir Skulason has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Fylkir against KR
0‑1 to KR, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
14 seasons and 191 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Orri Sveinn Segatta and Fylkir agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Fylkir
Orri Sveinn Segatta was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
IBV will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Sigurður Arnar Magnússon has pre-agreed a move to Fylkir, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AC Horsens have kept their man, and Fylkir go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kári Sigfússon. 1‑0 against Valur, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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.