Iceland men's national handball team

The Icelandic men's national handball team represents Iceland in international men's handball. It is controlled by the Icelandic Handball Association.

Iceland
Information
Nickname	Strákarnir okkar (English: Our boys)
Association	Icelandic Handball Association (Handknattleikssamband Íslands)
Coach	Snorri Guðjónsson
Assistant coach	Arnór Atlason Óskar Bjarni Óskarsson
Most caps	Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson (407)
Most goals	Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson (1879)
Colours
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	7 (First in 1972)
Best result	2nd (2008)
World Championship
Appearances	22 (First in 1958)
Best result	5th (1997)
European Championship
Appearances	13 (First in 2000)
Best result	3rd (2010)
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Iceland men's national handball team

Medal record
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	Team
European Championship
	2010 Austria

Honours

Competition				Total
Olympic Games	0	1	0	1
World Championship	0	0	0	0
European Championship	0	0	1	1
Total	0	1	1	2

Competitive record

  Champions    Runners-up    Third place    Fourth place  

Olympic Games

Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1936 Berlin	did not enter
Not held from 1948 to 1968
1972 Munich	Match for 11th place	12th of 16	5	1	1	3	92	90	+2
1976 Montreal	did not qualify
1980 Moscow
1984 Los Angeles	Match for 5th place	6th of 12	6	3	1	2	126	122	+4
1988 Seoul	Match for 7th place	8th of 12	6	2	1	3	125	133	−8
1992 Barcelona	Fourth place	4th of 12	7	3	1	3	140	146	−6
1996 Atlanta	did not qualify
2000 Sydney
2004 Athens	Match for 9th place	9th of 12	6	2	0	4	172	183	−11
2008 Beijing	Runners-up	2nd of 12	8	4	2	2	242	234	+8
2012 London	Quarter-finals	5th of 12	6	5	0	1	200	166	+34
2016 Rio de Janeiro	did not qualify
2020 Tokyo
2024 Paris
Total	7/12	0 Titles	44	20	6	18	1,097	1,074	+23

World Championship

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1938 Germany	did not participate
1954 Sweden
1958 East Germany	Preliminary round	10th of 16	3	1	0	2	46	57	−11
1961 West Germany	Main round	6th of 12	6	2	1	3	85	96	−11
1964 Czechoslovakia	Preliminary round	9th of 16	3	2	0	1	40	39	+1
1967 Sweden	did not participate
1970 France	Placement round	11th of 16	6	2	0	4	96	112	−16
1974 East Germany	Preliminary round	14th of 16	3	0	0	3	48	66	−18
1978 Denmark	Preliminary round	13th of 16	3	0	0	3	54	68	−14
1982 West Germany	did not participate
1986 Switzerland	Main round	6th of 16	8	4	0	4	179	188	−9
1990 Czechoslovakia	Main round	10th of 16	8	2	0	6	166	186	−20
1993 Sweden	Main round	8th of 16	8	4	0	4	178	175	+3
1995 Iceland	Round of 16	14th of 24	6	3	0	3	131	132	−1
1997 Japan	Quarter-finals	5th of 24	9	7	1	1	236	203	+33
1999 Egypt	did not participate
2001 France	Round of 16	11th of 24	6	2	1	3	152	150	+2
2003 Portugal	Ranking games	7th of 24	9	6	0	3	308	234	+74
2005 Tunisia	Preliminary round	15th of 24	5	2	1	2	154	144	+10
2007 Germany	Quarter-finals	8th of 24	10	4	0	6	276	247	+29
2009 Croatia	did not qualify
2011 Sweden	Ranking games	6th of 24	9	5	0	4	327	294	+33
2013 Spain	Round of 16	12th of 24	6	3	0	3	181	166	+15
2015 Qatar	Round of 16	11th of 24	6	2	1	3	152	165	−13
2017 France	Round of 16	14th of 24	6	1	2	3	153	152	+1
/ 2019 Denmark/Germany	Main round	11th of 24	8	3	0	5	207	211	−4
2021 Egypt	Main round	20th of 32	6	2	0	4	172	155	+17
/ 2023 Poland/Sweden	Main round	12th of 32	6	4	0	2	207	183	+24
/ / 2025 Croatia/Denmark/Norway	qualified
2027 Germany	to be determined
/ 2029 France/Germany
// 2031 Denmark/Iceland/Norway	Qualiifed as co-host

European Championship

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1994	did not participate
1996
1998
2000	Match for 11th place	11th of 12	6	1	0	5	147	162	−15
2002	Fourth place	4th of 16	8	4	2	2	221	209	+12
2004	Preliminary round	13th of 16	3	0	1	2	87	96	−9
2006	Main round	7th of 16	6	2	1	3	190	191	−1
2008	Main round	11th of 16	6	2	0	4	157	172	−15
2010	Third place	3rd of 16	8	4	3	1	249	240	+9
2012	Main round	10th of 16	6	2	1	3	177	178	−1
2014	Fifth place game	5th of 16	7	4	1	2	199	199	0
2016	Preliminary round	13th of 16	3	1	0	2	92	101	−9
2018	Preliminary round	13th of 16	3	1	0	2	74	82	−8
// 2020	Main round	11th of 24	7	3	0	4	191	195	−4
/ 2022	Fifth place game	6th of 24	8	5	0	3	230	212	+18
2024	Main round	10th of 24	7	3	1	3	200	209	−9
// 2026	To be determined
// 2028
Total	13/18		78	32	10	36	2214	2246	-32

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2024 European Men's Handball Championship.

Head coach: Snorri Gudjonsson

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Björgvin Páll Gústavsson (1985-05-24) 24 May 1985 1.93 m 260 21 Valur 2 RW Óðinn Þór Ríkharðsson (1997-10-23) 23 October 1997 1.83 m 31 91 Kadetten Schaffhausen 3 CB Janus Daði Smárason (1995-01-01) 1 January 1995 1.84 m 74 118 SC Magdeburg 4 LB Aron Pálmarsson (1990-07-19) 19 July 1990 1.93 m 170 649 Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar 7 RB Viggó Kristjánsson (1993-12-09) 9 December 1993 1.87 m 46 120 SC DHfK Leipzig 8 LW Bjarki Már Elísson (1990-05-16) 16 May 1990 1.90 m 107 372 Telekom Veszprém 9 LB Elvar Örn Jónsson (1997-08-31) 31 August 1997 1.85 m 68 160 MT Melsungen 10 CB Gísli Þorgeir Kristjánsson (1999-07-30) 30 July 1999 1.91 m 53 121 SC Magdeburg 11 P Ýmir Örn Gíslason (1997-07-01) 1 July 1997 1.96 m 80 35 Rhein-Neckar Löwen 14 RB Ómar Ingi Magnússon (1997-03-12) 12 March 1997 1.86 m 76 261 SC Magdeburg 16 GK Viktor Gísli Hallgrímsson (2000-07-24) 24 July 2000 2.03 m 51 1 HBC Nantes 17 LW Stiven Tobar Valencia (2000-10-27) 27 October 2000 1.84 m 8 10 SL Benfica 18 P Elliði Snær Viðarsson (1998-11-15) 15 November 1998 1.92 m 39 76 VfL Gummersbach 21 P Arnar Freyr Arnarsson (1996-03-14) 14 March 1996 2.01 m 87 94 MT Melsungen 22 RW Sigvaldi Guðjónsson (1994-07-04) 4 July 1994 1.92 m 65 184 Kolstad Håndball 23 RB Kristján Örn Kristjánsson (1997-12-25) 25 December 1997 1.90 m 31 60 Pays d'Aix UC 25 CB Haukur Þrastarson (2001-04-14) 14 April 2001 1.93 m 25 32 Industria Kielce 27 LB Einar Þorsteinn Ólafsson (2001-09-30) 30 September 2001 1.94 m 4 0 Fredericia HK

Past squads

2008 Olympic Games (2nd place)

All Star Team: Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson (left wing), Snorri Guðjónsson (centre back), Ólafur Stefánsson (right back)

Björgvin Páll Gústavsson, Logi Geirsson, Bjarni Fritzson, Sigfús Sigurðsson, Ásgeir Örn Hallgrímsson, Arnór Atlason, Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson, Snorri Guðjónsson, Ólafur Stefánsson, Sturla Ásgeirsson, Alexander Petersson, Hreiðar Guðmundsson, Sverre Andreas Jakobsson, Róbert Gunnarsson, Ingimundur Ingimundarson.

Coach: Guðmundur Guðmundsson

2010 European Championship (3rd place)

All Star Team: Ólafur Stefánsson (right back)

Björgvin Páll Gústavsson, Hreiðar Guðmundsson, Vignir Svavarsson, Logi Geirsson, Ásgeir Örn Hallgrímsson, Arnór Atlason, Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson, Snorri Guðjónsson, Ólafur Stefánsson, Alexander Petersson, Sverre Andreas Jakobsson, Róbert Gunnarsson, Ingimundur Ingimundarson, Sturla Ásgeirsson, Þórir Ólafsson, Aron Pálmarsson, Ólafur Guðmundsson, Rúnar Kárason.

Coach: Guðmundur Guðmundsson

List of coaches

#	Period	Coach
1	1950	Sigurður Magnússon
2	1958	Hallsteinn Hinriksson
3	1959	Frímann Gunnlaugsson
4	1961–1963	Hallsteinn Hinriksson (2nd period)
5	1964–1967	Karl Benediktsson
6	1968	Birgir Björnsson
7	1968–1972	Hilmar Björnsson
(5)	1973–1974	Karl Benediktsson (2nd period)
(6)	1974–1975	Birgir Björnsson (2nd period)
8	1975–1976	Viðar Símonarson
9	1976–1977	Janus Czerwinsky
(6)	1977–1978	Birgir Björnsson (3rd period)
10	1978–1980	Jóhann Ingi Gunnarsson
(7)	1980–1983	Hilmar Björnsson (2nd period)
11	1983–1990	Bogdan Kowalczyk
12	1990–1995	Þorbergur Aðalsteinsson
13	1995–2001	Þorbjörn Jensson
14	2001–2004	Guðmundur Guðmundsson
15	2004–2006	Viggó Sigurðsson
16	2006–2008	Alfreð Gíslason
(14)	2008–2012	Guðmundur Guðmundsson (2nd period)
17	2012–2016	Aron Kristjánsson
18	2016–2018	Geir Sveinsson
(14)	2018–2023	Guðmundur Guðmundsson (3rd period)
19	2023	Gunnar Magnússon / Ágúst Þór Jóhannsson
20	2023–	Snorri Guðjónsson

List of captains

#	Period	Captain
1986	1991	Þorgils Óttar Mathiesen
1991	1999	Geir Sveinsson
1999	2005	Dagur Sigurðsson
2005	2012	Ólafur Stefánsson
2012	2020	Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson
2020		Aron Pálmarsson

Individual all-time records

  Players still active with national team are highlighted.

Most matches played

Player	Matches	Goals
Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson	407	0
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson	365	1,879
Geir Sveinsson	340	502
Ólafur Stefánsson	330	1,570
Júlíus Jónasson	288	703
Róbert Gunnarsson	276	773
Valdimar Grímsson	271	940
Snorri Steinn Guðjónsson	257	846
Ásgeir Örn Hallgrímsson	255	420
Björgvin Páll Gústavsson	252	21

Last updated: 6 March 2023
Source: Icelandic Handball Association (hsi.is) Archived 17 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine
Total number of matches played in official competitions only.

Most goals scored

Player	Goals	Matches	Average
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson	1,879	365	5.15
Ólafur Stefánsson	1,570	330	4.76
Kristján Arason	1,123	245	4.58
Valdimar Grímsson	940	271	3.47
Snorri Steinn Guðjónsson	846	257	3.29
Róbert Gunnarsson	773	276	2.80
Sigurður Valur Sveinsson	736	242	3.04
Alexander Petersson	726	186	3.90
Júlíus Jónasson	703	288	2.44
Patrekur Jóhannesson	634	241	2.63

Last updated: 26 January 2021
Source: Icelandic Handball Association (hsi.is) Archived 17 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine
Total number of goals scored in official matches only.

Record against Nordic countries

All games, including European Championships, World Championships and Olympic Games.

Opponent	Played	Win	Draw	Lost
Denmark	107	35	15	55
Faroe Islands	13	12	0	1
Finland	13	9	3	1
Greenland	3	3	0	0
Norway	88	41	15	29
Sweden	67	10	3	54

Last updated: 2 January 2016
Source: Icelandic Handball Association (hsi.is) Archived 22 April 2009 at the National and University Library of Iceland

Kit suppliers

Since 2006, Iceland's kits have been supplied by Kempa.

Following their silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the penises of the team were cast in a silvery material and are on display at the Icelandic Phallological Museum.

External links

• Official website
• IHF profile