KR U20

10 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process
10 Edition

The KR Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

KR do the business in Europe

1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and KR came through the finding-out well against Banik Ostrava.

Match

No end in sight to KR's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at KR has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Halldór Snær Georgsson 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 KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at KR training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.

Squad

Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson gets it from the manager

“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 ratings

Finnur Tómas Pálmason was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.64. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The KR Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

KR have won it

This is the season the town will measure the next twenty against. The trophy travels home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.

Squad

Halldór Snær Georgsson is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Halldór Snær Georgsson: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

Cup progress for KR

A 1‑1 win over Stjarnan, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 8 of the 24 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Stefán Árni Geirsson

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

No end in sight to KR's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at KR has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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 KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at KR training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luke Rae 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Arnór Ingvi Traustason

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Arnór Ingvi Traustason, and the manager let it.

In brief

8 Edition

The KR Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

A European lesson for KR

0‑2 against Krasnodar. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.

Market

Hrafn Tómasson has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around KR they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Real improvement from Oscar Buur at KR

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Oscar Buur is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at KR

Aron Sigurðarson 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.

Player ratings

Stefán Árni Geirsson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

No hiding place for Michael Akoto

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michael Akoto, and the manager let it.

Squad

Sergio Rodríguez 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 ratings

Orri Hrafn Kjartansson was immovable

14 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Match

KR and Leiknir cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Leiknir came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief

7 Edition

The KR Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

KR refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 13 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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 ratings

Luke Rae was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.76. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Match

KR find a way past FH

FH made KR work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason

“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.

Squad

Héctor Solano has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. KR know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Squad

KR pick somebody else ahead of Fredrik Andersson

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Player ratings

The one thing Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson could not do

Shots: 5, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Aron Sigurðarson

Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

6 Edition

The KR Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Words at KR training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.

Squad

Finnur Tómas Pálmason 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 KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson, and the manager let it.

Match

KR come up short against Keflavik

Keflavik left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A month that belonged to Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson

The young player of the month award goes to a 19-year-old at KR who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

Player ratings

Luke Rae runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson

6 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

Player ratings

Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson could have had three

5 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.

Market

The shop window has Aron Þórður Albertsson in it

KR have let the market know Aron Þórður Albertsson can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

5 Edition

The KR Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Halldór Snær Georgsson is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Halldór Snær Georgsson: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

KR march on in the cup

Vikingur are out and KR go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Squad

Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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 KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Kristófer Orri Pétursson out for 35 days

The medical room confirms 35 days on the sidelines for Kristófer Orri Pétursson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Fredrik Andersson gets it from the manager

“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.

Match

Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson sends KR past Breidablik

It finished 1‑0, and it was Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to KR.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Orri Hrafn Kjartansson

18 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Michael Akoto

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief

4 Edition

The KR Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cup progress for KR

A 1‑0 win over IA, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 23 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Halldór Snær Georgsson

There were 6 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Hrafn Tómasson

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Hrafn Tómasson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around KR the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

KR to lose Hrafn Tómasson for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Hrafn Tómasson has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Words at KR training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.

Squad

Sergio Rodríguez 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 KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Aron Sigurðarson gets it from the manager

“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 ratings

Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson in the eights

A performance of 8.57 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

3 Edition

The KR Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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 KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Arnór Ingvi Traustason gets it from the manager

“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 ratings

One of those days for Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.23, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Words at KR training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luke Rae 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 ratings

Nobody could get near Luke Rae

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson rescues a point for KR

It needed Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Fylkir, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

KR pick somebody else ahead of Fredrik Andersson

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Market

KR bring in an old head

Sergio Rodríguez is 37 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Market

Window shut, Aron Þórður Albertsson still here

KR spent the window trying to move Aron Þórður Albertsson on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.

In brief

2 Edition

The KR Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Halldór Snær Georgsson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Halldór Snær Georgsson commits to KR for another 4 years.

Squad

Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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 KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Finnur Tómas Pálmason was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.43. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Boardroom

Albin Skoglund will join KR for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Albin Skoglund has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means KR have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Squad

No hiding place for Halldór Snær Georgsson

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Halldór Snær Georgsson, and the manager let it.

Match

KR find a way past Fjolnir

Fjolnir made KR work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Arnór Ingvi Traustason was immovable

18 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Player ratings

The one thing Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson could not do

Shots: 9, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Squad

This league is too small for Fredrik Andersson

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. KR will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

In brief

1 Edition

The KR Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 8.45

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 8.45, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Squad

Arnór Ingvi Traustason stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Arnór Ingvi Traustason and KR agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Halldór Snær Georgsson 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 KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Fylkir watching Gabríel Hrannar Eyjólfsson

The interest is real enough to have reached print. KR have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Words at KR training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.

Squad

Kristófer Orri Pétursson out for 69 days

The medical room confirms 69 days on the sidelines for Kristófer Orri Pétursson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Match

KR get the job done against IA

A 2‑1 win over IA, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Luke Rae in the eights

A performance of 8.95 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Halldór Snær Georgsson

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief