1996 Úrvalsdeild

Statistics of Úrvalsdeild in the 1996 season.

Úrvalsdeild

Season	1996
← 1995 1997 →

Overview

It was contested by 10 teams, and ÍA won the championship. KR's Ríkharður Daðason was the top scorer with 14 goals.

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	ÍA (C)	18	13	1	4	46	19	+27	40	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	KR	18	11	4	3	38	16	+22	37	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	Leiftur	18	8	5	5	33	28	+5	29	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup group stage
4	ÍBV	18	8	1	9	30	33	−3	25	Qualification for the Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
5	Valur	18	7	3	8	23	25	−2	24
6	Stjarnan	18	6	5	7	25	32	−7	23
7	Grindavík	18	5	4	9	23	34	−11	19
8	Keflavík	18	4	7	7	16	28	−12	19
9	Fylkir (R)	18	5	3	10	26	30	−4	18	Relegation to 1. deild karla
10	Breiðablik (R)	18	3	7	8	19	34	−15	16

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Each team played every opponent once home and away for a total of 18 matches.

Home \ Away	BRE	FYL	GRI	ÍA	ÍBV	ÍBK	KR	LEI	STJ	VAL
Breiðablik		1–6	0–0	0–4	2–3	1–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–1
Fylkir	1–0		1–2	0–2	2–3	1–0	0–2	3–2	0–0	0–1
Grindavík	0–0	2–4		0–2	3–2	4–0	0–2	2–2	0–3	2–0
ÍA	0–1	3–2	6–3		2–1	5–0	4–1	0–0	3–1	2–1
ÍBV	4–2	3–2	2–1	3–2		1–1	0–4	1–3	1–2	1–0
Keflavík	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–3	1–0		2–2	1–1	0–1	2–1
KR	5–2	1–1	4–0	1–0	1–0	1–1		2–1	1–1	3–0
Leiftur	3–1	2–1	0–1	4–3	1–4	1–2	2–1		5–3	0–0
Stjarnan	3–3	1–0	2–2	0–2	1–0	2–1	1–4	2–3		2–4
Valur	2–0	5–2	2–0	1–3	3–1	2–1	0–3	0–2	0–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Rikhardur Dadason	KR	14
2	Bjarni Guðjónsson	ÍA	13
3	Guðmundur Benediktsson	KR	9
	Haraldur Ingólfsson	ÍA
5	Tryggvi Guðmundsson	ÍBV	8
6	Kristinn Tómasson	Fylkir	7
	Mihajlo Biberčić	ÍA
8	Baldur Bjarnason	Stjarnan	6
	Þórhallur Dan Jóhannsson	Fylkir
	Rastislav Lazorík	Leiftur
	Sverrir Sverrisson	Leiftur
	Salih Porca	Valur