From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.78 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for KR — 7.46
1 for Orri Hrafn Kjartansson, marked 7.46, 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Window shuts: 12 in, 0 out at KR
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 12 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market17 Aug 2026
Valur come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and KR did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match15 Aug 2026
KR cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Match15 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson. 3‑2 against Valur, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Transfer targets17 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Luke Rae
Marked 8.60 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Triumph
Squad10 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.81, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Orri Hrafn Kjartansson scored, was marked 7.59, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Halldór Snær Georgsson commits to KR for another 4 years.
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at KR
Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson 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 terraces10 Aug 2026
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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Three points for KR, 2‑0 the final word against Fylkir in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dagur Sigurdsson 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.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Fjolnir, and it could have been more.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Stefán Árni Geirsson provided it, and the 8.46 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 6.54 beside his name.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at KR
Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Padova have kept their man, and KR go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ástbjörn Þórðarson 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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 8.10 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad3 Aug 2026
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.