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Uneasy
Match12 Oct 2026
Every point is an argument now for Leiknir
Position 11 and 7 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Óskar Jónsson: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Leiknir have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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 Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Daði Bærings Halldórsson and Leiknir agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Dagur Ingi Hammer 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Viktor Andri Pétursson’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
A move Csongor Kokovai 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. Csongor Kokovai is living that version at Leiknir, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market5 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Arnór Daði Aðalsteinsson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Leiknir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hélder Maurílio commits to Leiknir for another 2 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Diego Celis 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 Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ólafur Íshólm Ólafsson 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Leiknir, another week without a signature from Dawid Kiedrowicz.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Leiknir's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Leiknir has to find a result from somewhere.
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 Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Ólafur Íshólm Ólafsson knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Dagur Ingi Hammer 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brynjar Hlöðvers: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Leiknir have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market21 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Marko Zivkovic
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marko Zivkovic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Leiknir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Marko Zivkovic 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ólafur Íshólm Ólafsson 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
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dagur Ingi Hammer 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Match14 Sep 2026
Leiknir sink to position 11
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Diego Celis 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A move Riku Umeda 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. Riku Umeda is living that version at Leiknir, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christian Valladolid, and the manager let it.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Leiknir, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Leiknir?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Valur? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market14 Sep 2026
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Riku Umeda is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
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Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
A move Agustín Mello 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. Agustín Mello is living that version at Leiknir, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market7 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Leiknir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Diego Celis 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 Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ólafur Íshólm Ólafsson 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Fylkir left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Agustín Mello’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A mark of 5.54 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Uneasy
Squad31 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 Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Dagur Ingi Hammer 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Fjolnir made Leiknir work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Evgeny Pesegov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Sindri Björnsson was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.12. 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Sindri Björnsson had Leiknir level again within 4 minutes, and Fjolnir never got to play with a lead at all.
Squad31 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Diego Celis
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. Leiknir will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market31 Aug 2026
Leiknir bring in an old head
Diego Celis is 34 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The clock does Marko Zivkovic’s negotiating for him
4 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Leiknir could ask drops and the wages Marko Zivkovic can ask rise.
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Crisis
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Leiknir's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Leiknir has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 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 Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Leiknir
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ólafur Íshólm Ólafsson 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
Leiknir come up short against IA
IA left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad24 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: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
Jesús Peralta is 20, and Leiknir 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Leiknir
5 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.
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Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
Leiknir out of the cup
Stjarnan ended it 0‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Leiknir
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Leiknir are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 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 Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Dagur Ingi Hammer 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.
Squad17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Lucas Zalazar
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. Leiknir will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
Vasilis Kontonikos is 20, and Leiknir 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Shots: 8, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Arnór Daði Aðalsteinsson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Leiknir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Arnór Daði Aðalsteinsson 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.
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 Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Evgeny Pesegov 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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
At 21 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.
Squad10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.57 on the card, and the Leiknir support went home talking about one name.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
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Crisis
The terraces3 Aug 2026
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 23 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ólafur Íshólm Ólafsson and Leiknir agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ólafur Íshólm Ólafsson 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 Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Đorđe Vladisavljević 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.
Squad3 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
4 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.