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Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
The deal with Valur is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad22 Feb 2027
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.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Fylkir asked and Vikingur said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikulás Val Gunnarsson, and the manager let it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Fylkir
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christy Grogan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market22 Feb 2027
Marko Polovina is 19, and Fylkir have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Fylkir will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A new face in his position, and Orri Sveinn Segatta suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Fylkir have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market22 Feb 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Fylkir, another week without a signature from Luka Sušanj.
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Market15 Feb 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Fylkir people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad15 Feb 2027
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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Luka Sušanj gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Luka Sušanj has just signed for Fylkir, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Fylkir asked and Valur said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad15 Feb 2027
7 new faces, and Fylkir are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Jóel Baldursson 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.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Fylkir have made the call to Vikingur. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
A loan enquiry to Vikingur: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikulás Val Gunnarsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market8 Feb 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Fylkir have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Match8 Feb 2027
Fylkir are in real trouble now
Position 11, 5 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market8 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Fylkir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nils Roström commits to Fylkir for another 3 years.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Fylkir
Orri Sveinn Segatta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hlynur Sævar Jónsson 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Oliver Djurci is 17, and Fylkir have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market8 Feb 2027
Luka Matijevic is 19, and Fylkir have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad8 Feb 2027
No place for Antonio Siljan in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Fylkir are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Uneasy
The terraces1 Feb 2027
Anger at Fylkir spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Pressure builds in the Fylkir boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Fylkir
Robert Kakeeto 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 dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Nils Roström
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Fylkir
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christy Grogan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Arnar Númi Gíslason's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The formation has left Christy Grogan behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Fylkir will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Nils Roström has moved up it.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Theodór Ingi Óskarsson and Fylkir agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
Market18 Jan 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Guðmundur Tyrfingsson signs something — a contract at Fylkir or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Match11 Jan 2027
Fylkir sink to position 11
5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad11 Jan 2027
22 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Uneasy
The terraces4 Jan 2027
Supporters organise against the Fylkir board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Arnar Númi Gíslason's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Market4 Jan 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Fylkir, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market28 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Eyþór Aron Wöhler signs something — a contract at Fylkir or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Arnar Númi Gíslason and Fylkir agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hlynur Sævar Jónsson 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.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
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.
Match14 Dec 2026
Fylkir sink to position 11
5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market14 Dec 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Fylkir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Dec 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad14 Dec 2026
50 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Fylkir know it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Fylkir lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
Supporters organise against the Fylkir board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad7 Dec 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Birkir Eyþórsson, and the manager let it.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Fylkir, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 29 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Fylkir
Máni Austmann and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kári Sigfússon and Fylkir agree another 3 years.
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Match16 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Fylkir
Position 11 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market16 Nov 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 Fylkir can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Fylkir
Orri Sveinn Segatta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikulás Val Gunnarsson, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Fylkir, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout16 Nov 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 Arnór Breki Ásþórsson is on it.
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Squad9 Nov 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikulás Val Gunnarsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Fylkir
Robert Kakeeto 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Fylkir has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market2 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Eyþór Aron Wöhler signs something — a contract at Fylkir or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Fylkir
Robert Kakeeto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and Fylkir are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The formation has left Robert Kakeeto behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Fylkir will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Uneasy
Match19 Oct 2026
Every point is an argument now for Fylkir
Position 11 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A move William Bergman would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. William Bergman is living that version at Fylkir, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nils Roström is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Fylkir
Orri Sveinn Segatta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Robert Kakeeto commits to Fylkir for another 2 years.
Market19 Oct 2026
Nils Roström is 18, and Fylkir have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets12 Oct 2026
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hlynur Sævar Jónsson commits to Fylkir for another 3 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The formation has left Elias Risp behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Fylkir will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market12 Oct 2026
He is 20, and nobody at Fylkir signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Arnar Númi Gíslason is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Market12 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Fylkir, another week without a signature from Elias Risp.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Birkir Eyþórsson, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets5 Oct 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Fylkir
Máni Austmann and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Birkir Eyþórsson has written the date down.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market5 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Eyþór Aron Wöhler signs something — a contract at Fylkir or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market5 Oct 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Dagur Dan Kristinsson leaves Fylkir the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Match26 Sep 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Fylkir
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. IBV kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Fylkir will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Squad28 Sep 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.
The dugout28 Sep 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Fylkir and IBV take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Sigurdur Gunnarsson was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the Fylkir dressing room was either.
Squad28 Sep 2026
At 20 he was the best of everybody his age in the division for one weekend. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Market28 Sep 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Guðmundur Tyrfingsson signs something — a contract at Fylkir or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Match21 Sep 2026
Fylkir are in real trouble now
Position 11, 4 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Fylkir
Orri Sveinn Segatta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jóel Baldursson is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match20 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Fylkir against Stjarnan
1‑3 to Stjarnan, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Arnar Númi Gíslason, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sigurdur Gunnarsson after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
6 new faces, and Fylkir are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout21 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 Arnór Breki Ásþórsson is on it.
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Market14 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Fylkir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.53 on the card, and the Fylkir support went home talking about one name.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Fylkir will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Sigurdur Gunnarsson chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Stjarnan in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Squad7 Sep 2026
Melker Österberg arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Melker Österberg has, at Fylkir, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Fylkir
Stígur Diljan Þórðarson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Vikingur in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Máni Austmann knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Máni Austmann trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.40, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 2‑0 win over Leiknir, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Match29 Aug 2026
The drought breaks for Fylkir
5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Leiknir were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Sigurdur Gunnarsson could afford to be generous.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Fylkir
Stígur Diljan 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Tumi Fannar Gunnarsson had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Fylkir's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fylkir has to find a result from somewhere.
Match22 Aug 2026
FH take the points off Fylkir
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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.
The dugout24 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Match15 Aug 2026
The small margins put Fylkir out
Out, 3‑4 to Keflavik, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Benedikt Daríus Garðarsson provided it, and the 8.43 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Stígur Diljan Þórðarson did not need any: 7.84, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, and a scan that said otherwise. He goes back to Vikingur; Fylkir go back to the market; and both will insist there is no story here.
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Fylkir say no — this time
The offer from Leiknir for Tumi Fannar Gunnarsson was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Fylkir
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Fylkir are no longer polite ones.
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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Fylkir and Keflavik, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
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Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Vikingur, 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Fylkir against KR
0‑2 to KR, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Haukur Fridjonsson 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. Johann Magnusson 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hordur 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tumi Fannar Gunnarsson commits to Fylkir for another 4 years.
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Crisis
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.
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
Fylkir asked and Wycombe Wanderers said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.