2005 2. deild karla

The 2005 2. deild karla was the 40th season of third-tier football in Iceland. The league began on 16 May and was concluded on 10 September. It was contested by a total of ten clubs.

2. deild karla

Season	2005
Champions	Leiknir R.
Promoted	Stjarnan
Relegated	Tindastóll Leiftur/Dalvík
Matches played	90
Goals scored	308 (3.42 per match)
Top goalscorer	Þorvaldur Árnason & Guðjón Baldvinsson (14)
Biggest home win	Huginn 7–1 Leiftur/Dalvík
Biggest away win	4 goals (4 occasions)
Highest scoring	8 goals (6 occasions)
← 2004 2006 →

Teams

The 2005 2. deild karla was contested by ten clubs, six of which had played in the division during the previous season. 2004 champions KS and runners-up Víkingur Ólafsvík were promoted to the second tier; replacing them were Njarðvík and Stjarnan, both relegated from the 1. deild after finishing in the bottom two places at the end of the 2004 campaign. Also joining the division were Fjarðabyggð and Huginn, who were promoted from the 3. deild through the play-offs. Fjarðabyggð had reached the third tier of Icelandic football for the first time in their history after being founded in 2001.

Stadia and locations

Club name	Location	Stadium
Afturelding	Mosfellsbær	Varmárvöllur
Fjarðabyggð	Fjarðabyggð	Eskifjarðarvöllur
Huginn	Seyðisfjörður	Seyðisfjarðarvöllur
ÍR	Reykjavík	ÍR-völlur
Leiftur/Dalvík	Dalvík/Ólafsfjörður	Dalvíkurvöllur/Ólafsfjarðarvöllur
Leiknir Reykjavík	Reykjavík	Leiknisvöllur
Njarðvík	Njarðvík	Njarðvíkurvöllur
Selfoss	Selfoss	Selfossvöllur
Stjarnan	Garðabær	Stjörnuvöllur
Tindastóll	Sauðárkrókur	Sauðárkróksvöllur

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Leiknir R. (C, P)	18	11	4	3	38	21	+17	37	Promotion to 2006 1. deild karla
2	Stjarnan (P)	18	9	6	3	42	25	+17	33
3	Njarðvík	18	9	4	5	34	21	+13	31
4	Fjarðabyggð	18	8	5	5	31	24	+7	29
5	Selfoss	18	8	2	8	27	30	−3	26
6	ÍR	18	6	5	7	27	32	−5	23
7	Afturelding	18	6	4	8	35	35	0	22
8	Huginn	18	5	4	9	35	37	−2	19
9	Tindastóll (R)	18	4	4	10	16	38	−22	16	Relegation to 2006 3. deild karla
10	Leiftur/Dalvík (R)	18	3	4	11	23	45	−22	13

Updated to match(es) played on 10 September 2005. Source: ksi.is (in Icelandic)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results grid

Home \ Away	AFT	KFF	HUG	ÍR	L/D	LRE	NJA	SEL	STJ	TIN
Afturelding		5–0	1–3	0–3	2–1	3–5	2–1	6–2	0–0	5–0
Fjarðabyggð	5–0		1–3	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–3	1–1	4–0
Huginn	1–1	2–3		2–1	7–1	1–2	0–3	3–1	3–5	1–1
Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur	3–2	1–1	2–1		1–5	1–3	0–4	1–1	0–2	2–2
Leiftur/Dalvík	2–2	0–3	1–1	0–3		0–2	1–1	0–1	2–6	2–1
Leiknir R.	3–2	1–1	2–2	1–1	4–0		3–2	1–0	2–2	4–0
Njarðvík	1–1	0–2	5–1	3–1	1–0	1–2		2–1	2–1	2–1
Selfoss	2–0	2–3	3–2	0–3	2–1	1–0	1–3		0–1	3–0
Stjarnan	3–1	3–1	2–1	2–2	5–0	1–2	3–2	3–3		1–2
Tindastóll	0–2	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–6	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on 10 September 2005. Source: ksi.is (in Icelandic)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Two players, Afturelding midfielder Þorvaldur Árnason and Stjarnan forward Guðjón Baldvinsson, each scored 14 league goals in the 2005 2. deild season.

Name	Goals	Club
Þorvaldur Árnason	14	Afturelding
Guðjón Baldvinsson		Stjarnan
Marjan Cekic	10	Fjarðabyggð
Dragoslav Stojanovic		Stjarnan
Jóhann Björn Valsson	8	Afturelding
Mikael Nikulásson		Huginn
Atli Heimisson	7	Afturelding
Helgi Pétur Jóhannsson		Leiknir R.
Ómar Valdimarsson		Selfoss

Scoring

• Biggest home win: 6 goals
  • Huginn 7–1 Leiftur/Dalvík (6 August 2005)
• Biggest away win: 4 goals
  • ÍR 0–4 Njarðvík (27 May 2005)
  • ÍR 1–5 Leiftur/Dalvík (11 June 2005)
  • Leiftur/Dalvík 2–6 Stjarnan (30 June 2005)
  • Tindastóll 2–6 Leiftur/Dalvík (7 July 2005)
• Highest scoring game: 8 goals
  • Huginn 7–1 Leiftur/Dalvík (6 August 2005)
  • Afturelding 6–2 Selfoss (10 September 2005)
  • Leiftur/Dalvík 2–6 Stjarnan (30 June 2005)
  • Tindastóll 2–6 Leiftur/Dalvík (7 July 2005)
  • Afturelding 3–5 Leiknir R. (21 July 2005)
  • Huginn 3–5 Stjarnan (20 August 2005)
• Most team home goals scored: 24 – Afturelding
• Fewest team home goals scored: 8 – Leiftur/Dalvík
• Most team away goals: 19 – Stjarnan
• Fewest team away goals: 7 – Tindastóll

Discipline

• Most yellow cards (team): 40 – Afturelding
• Most yellow cards (player): 6
  • Björn Sigurbjörnsson (Afturelding)
  • Ómar Freyr Rafnsson (Huginn)
• Most red cards (team): 7 – Leiftur/Dalvík
• Most red cards (player): 2
  • Guðmundur Kristinn Kristinsson (Leiftur/Dalvík)

Awards

Team of the year

Gísli Eyland

Ómar

Snorri Már

Bjarki Már

Steinarr

Haukur

Sverrir Þór

Lukic

Vigfús Arnar

Stojanovic

Guðjón

KSÍ 2. deild Team of the Year

The KSÍ selected a team of the year, which consisted of 11 players and 5 substitutes.

Goalkeeper

Gísli Eyland Sveinsson (Tindastóll)

Defenders

Bjarki Már Árnason (Tindastóll), Ómar Valdimarsson (Selfoss), Snorri Már Jónsson (Njarðvík), Steinarr Guðmundsson (Leiknir R.)

Midfielders

Goran Lukic (Stjarnan), Haukur Gunnarsson (Leiknir R.), Sverrir Þór Sverrisson (Njarðvík), Vigfús Arnar Jósepsson (Leiknir R.)

Strikers

Guðjón Baldvinsson (Stjarnan), Dragoslav Stojanovic (Stjarnan)

Substitutes

Atli Knútsson (GK, Stjarnan), Gunnar Jarl Jónsson (DF, Leiknir R.), Simon Karkov (MF, Leiknir R.), Arilíus Marteinsson (MF, Selfoss), Jakob Spangsberg (FW, Leiknir R.)

Individual awards

Award	Winner	Club
Player of the Year	Guðjón Baldvinsson	Stjarnan
Young Player of the Year	Guðjón Baldvinsson	Stjarnan
Manager of the Year	Garðar Ásgeirsson	Leiknir R.