From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Anton Kralj 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.
Squad12 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Steady
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Keflavik is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Oct 2026
He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Anton Kralj 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.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
Anton Kralj 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Fabián Ramos’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Keflavik.
Match26 Sep 2026
Keflavik keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.42. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Keflavik.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Fabián Ramos at his very best
Marked 8.24. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Keflavik.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Marin Brigić 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.
Squad28 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Market28 Sep 2026
Experience through the door at Keflavik
Benjamin Janza arrives at 34 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
Anton Kralj 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tobías Zárate, and the manager let it.
Match19 Sep 2026
FH take the points off Keflavik
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
8 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Keflavik would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Nobody at Keflavik 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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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Nacho Heras 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dagur Ingi Valsson, and the manager let it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Keflavik is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Edon Osmani has agreed terms with Valur for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nacho Heras 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
KR made Keflavik work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Keflavik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marin Brigić 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.95, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Anton Kralj 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.
Squad31 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Shots: 10. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Squad31 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Keflavik 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.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 5.65, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
5.67. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Keflavik
1‑2 against Valur, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 27 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Jerson Cabral, 35, rolls back the years — 7.96
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.96 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market24 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A move Michał Niedbała 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. Michał Niedbała is living that version at Keflavik, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Anton Kralj 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Keflavik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nacho Heras 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Three points for Keflavik, 2‑1 the final word against Fylkir in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anton Kralj, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 10 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.
Match12 Aug 2026
Keflavik march on in the cup
Fylkir are out and Keflavik go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match15 Aug 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market17 Aug 2026
Keflavik say no — this time
The offer from Vikingur for Dagur Ingi Valsson 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.25 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Anton Kralj 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.72. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Keflavik.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Marin Mudražija again, and this time the name on the line is FH. Keflavik are listening politely and promising nothing.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Anton Kralj and Keflavik agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Anton Kralj 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Stefan Alexander Ljubičić, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Muhamed Alghoul’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Anton Kralj asks for a word with the manager
“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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Marin Mudražija has his answer from Keflavik; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market10 Aug 2026
At 35, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
Match8 Aug 2026
No goals between Keflavik and IA
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. IA will be the happier side with the point.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market3 Aug 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 Keflavik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Anton Kralj 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
Words at Keflavik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nacho Heras 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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 Keflavik, another week without a signature from Nacho Heras.
Market3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Edon Osmani is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Keflavik has been clear about where Edon Osmani stands, which is more than many ever get.