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Uneasy
Match21 Dec 2026
Stjarnan up to position 3
17 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad21 Dec 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout21 Dec 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stjarnan, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match10 Dec 2026
Stjarnan come up short in Europe
1‑2 away to the standard of RAAL La Louviere. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
7.94, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Match10 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Stjarnan
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Stjarnan
Örvar Logi Örvarsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match10 Dec 2026
Stjarnan leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
No place for Emil Atlason on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Stjarnan pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Stefan Skulason to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Davíð Ingvarsson is on it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Stjarnan
Davíð Ingvarsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout7 Dec 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.
The dugout7 Dec 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.
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Crisis
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Stjarnan have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match26 Nov 2026
Stjarnan beaten on the continent
2‑3 against Viborg, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.
Squad30 Nov 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 Stjarnan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout30 Nov 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.
Match26 Nov 2026
Stjarnan hit back inside 4 minutes
Viborg held the lead for 4 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Stjarnan answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑3 defeat, delivered by Stefan Skulason to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout30 Nov 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
The Emil Atlason talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Stjarnan know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 8. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match23 Nov 2026
Stjarnan are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 17 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad23 Nov 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gustav Kjeldsen and Stjarnan agree another 3 years.
The dugout23 Nov 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
The name of Örvar Eggertsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Stjarnan say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Stjarnan. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Stjarnan
Emil Atlason and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Gustav Kjeldsen
“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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Benedikt V. Warén is on it.
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Crisis
Match5 Nov 2026
0‑3. There is a level at which football is played every single week by clubs that have been doing it for fifty years, and an evening like this is what it feels like to arrive there without having done it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
There were 7 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stjarnan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Stjarnan
Emil Atlason 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Örvar Logi Örvarsson, and the manager let it.
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Stjarnan dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Stefan Skulason left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Sindri Þór Ingimarsson.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Andri Rúnar Bjarnason is on it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Birnir Snær Ingason. Stjarnan will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
The dugout2 Nov 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Sigurður Gunnar Jónsson's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Steady
Match22 Oct 2026
Stjarnan come up short in Europe
1‑3 away to the standard of Torino. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match26 Oct 2026
Stjarnan up to position 3
17 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Damil Dankerlui 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 dugout26 Oct 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑3 Stefan Skulason left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Stjarnan pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Árni Snær Ólafsson is on it.
Market26 Oct 2026
The name of Örvar Eggertsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Stjarnan say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Stjarnan
Davíð Ingvarsson 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Stjarnan
7 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.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stjarnan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Stjarnan
Davíð Ingvarsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Darri Bergmann Gylfason has written the date down.
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Upbeat
Match1 Oct 2026
2‑0 against RAAL La Louviere, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Andri Rúnar Bjarnason was at the centre of the description.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.82 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
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
At 33, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
10 combined actions and 7.45. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Sindri Þór Ingimarsson.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Birnir Snær Ingason
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Birnir Snær Ingason has come out of that comparison in the side, and Stjarnan have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Stefan Skulason kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout5 Oct 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match28 Sep 2026
Stjarnan are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 17 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
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.
The dugout28 Sep 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.15, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match26 Sep 2026
Stjarnan hit back inside 4 minutes
Valur held the lead for 4 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Stjarnan answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Stefan Skulason to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Stjarnan have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.
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Steady
Match17 Sep 2026
A European lesson for Stjarnan
0‑2 against Viborg. 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.
Match21 Sep 2026
The view from the top for Stjarnan
17 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There were 7 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Stjarnan
Emil Atlason and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match20 Sep 2026
It finished 3‑1, and it was Örvar Eggertsson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Stjarnan.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Guðmundur Baldvin Nökkvason has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
The big one: Valur come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Stjarnan will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad21 Sep 2026
6 new faces, and Stjarnan 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.
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Upbeat
Match12 Sep 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Andri Rúnar Bjarnason provided it, and the 8.57 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Emil Atlason, 33, rolls back the years — 7.92
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.92 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stjarnan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Jón Hrafn Barkarson 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Stjarnan
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Stjarnan
Emil Atlason 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A move Luka Raičević 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. Luka Raičević is living that version at Stjarnan, and it tends to show in the first month.
Player ratings14 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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Steady
Squad7 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 Stjarnan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Árni Snær Ólafsson
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Árni Snær Ólafsson has come out of that comparison in the side, and Stjarnan have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Market7 Sep 2026
Stjarnan have made Alex Þór Hauksson available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Alex Þór Hauksson. Stjarnan will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
The dugout7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Emil Atlason moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Stjarnan than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Benedikt V. Warén 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.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Fjolnir in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Emil Atlason talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Stjarnan know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Market31 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 Stjarnan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match29 Aug 2026
Whatever happens, Stjarnan do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 6.86 on 10 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Davíð Ingvarsson 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 dugout31 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 and IA take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Árni Snær Ólafsson is on it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Upbeat
Match22 Aug 2026
IBV will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Stjarnan were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.77 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market24 Aug 2026
Emil Atlason hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stjarnan can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $90.0K — a club that wants Óskar Borgþórsson enough to be asked twice.
Market24 Aug 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Jón Hrafn Barkarson reports back to Stjarnan with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$87.0K was the most the club would pay and Vikingur were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Hrafn Guðmundsson has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.06, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Stjarnan
Davíð Ingvarsson 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.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Stjarnan bow out of the cup
Leiknir go through and Stjarnan go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Árni Snær Ólafsson: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 15 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at Stjarnan until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Stjarnan
Örvar Eggertsson 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 targets17 Aug 2026
$85.0K on the table at Vikingur. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Stjarnan spend $190.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $190.0K for Davíð Ingvarsson, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Leiknir will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Marko Zivkovic has pre-agreed a move to Stjarnan, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.18 on 12 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
At 20 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.
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Triumph
Market10 Aug 2026
Stjarnan say no — this time
The offer from Fjolnir for Örvar Eggertsson 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
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
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.04 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Stjarnan have gone to Breidablik with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
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 Stjarnan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$78.0K on the table at Vikingur. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Birnir Snær Ingason and Stjarnan agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Stjarnan asked and FC Copenhagen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Arnor Halldorsson 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.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.85 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Örvar Eggertsson and Stjarnan agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Örvar Eggertsson 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andri Rúnar Bjarnason. 2‑1 against Leiknir, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Match1 Aug 2026
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Andri Rúnar Bjarnason in the middle of it, and Leiknir unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 8.02 — 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
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.