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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Stjarnan may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Emil Atlason 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Stjarnan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Đorđević 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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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Stjarnan are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Emil Atlason 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 Stjarnan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Emil Atlason 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.
Squad5 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
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.
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Crisis
The terraces28 Sep 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.” 6 of the 24 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Emil Atlason 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 Stjarnan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Stefan Đorđević 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
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samúel Kári Friðjónsson, and the manager let it.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Emil Atlason 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
“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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.76 on the card, and the Stjarnan support went home talking about one name.
Match19 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Nery Veloso has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Stjarnan 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Stjarnan have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Steady
Match12 Sep 2026
The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Efrén Mendoza decided nobody was going anywhere. Fjolnir had no time left to answer.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Zarija Lambulić 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 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
The manager makes an example of Germán Cervera
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Fjolnir made Stjarnan work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Örvar Eggertsson has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Stjarnan 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Stjarnan have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Player ratings14 Sep 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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Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Zarija Lambulić 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Guðmundur Baldvin Nökkvason 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Efrén Mendoza, and the manager let it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Stjarnan come up short against IA
IA left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A mark of 5.45 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 5.79. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
Market7 Sep 2026
Stjarnan have let the market know Gustav Kjeldsen can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Steady
Match29 Aug 2026
The 87th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Germán Cervera decided nobody was going anywhere. IBV had no time left to answer.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Emil Atlason 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 Stjarnan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Stefan Đorđević 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.
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
Stjarnan get the job done against IBV
A 1‑0 win over IBV, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Stjarnan
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Stjarnan had a different afternoon.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Stjarnan
1‑1 against FH, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad24 Aug 2026
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Emil Atlason 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 Stjarnan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Đorđević 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Emil Atlason
“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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Everybody has an opinion about Emil Atlason
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
13 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.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Stjarnan through in the cup
A 3‑2 win over Leiknir, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Örvar Eggertsson takes the afternoon — 8.33
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Örvar Eggertsson provided it, and the 8.33 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market17 Aug 2026
Stjarnan pay Alvarado $200.0K for a proper upgrade
Alvarado did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $200.0K for Germán Cervera, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Emil Atlason 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 Stjarnan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Germán Cervera from Alvarado for $200.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Stjarnan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zarija Lambulić 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Vikingur left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.75 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Crisis
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 5 of the 24 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Market10 Aug 2026
Stjarnan say no — this time
The offer from IBV for Daníel Finns Matthíasson 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Emil Atlason 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 Stjarnan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Stefan Đorđević 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samúel Kári Friðjónsson, and the manager let it.
Match8 Aug 2026
Leiknir left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emil Atlason and Stjarnan agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Emil Atlason 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Daníel Finns Matthíasson again, and this time the name on the line is IBV. Stjarnan are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 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
The afternoon belonged to Alpha Conteh
A mark of 7.75, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match1 Aug 2026
Honours even between Stjarnan and FH
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad3 Aug 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.