Iceland national handball team

Iceland
Information
Nickname Strákarnir okkar (English: Our boys)
Association Icelandic Handball Association
(Handknattleikssamband Íslands)
Coach Guðmundur Guðmundsson
Assistant coach Gunnar Magnússon
Tomas Svensson
Captain Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson
Most caps Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson (407)
Most goals Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson (1822)
Colours
Home
Away
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances 7 (First in 1972)
Best result 2nd (2008)
World Championship
Appearances 19 (First in 1958)
Best result 5th (1997)
European Championship
Appearances 10 (First in 2000)
Best result 3rd (2010)
Last updated on Unknown.
Iceland national handball team
Medal record
Olympic Games
2008 BeijingTeam
European Championship
2010 Austria

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

Honours

Competition1st, gold medalist(s)2nd, silver medalist(s)3rd, bronze medalist(s)Total
Olympic Games 0101
World Championship 0000
European Championship 0011
Total0112

Competitive record

     Champions       Runners-up       Third Place       Fourth Place  

Olympic Games

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

World Championships

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

1
Denmark/Germany 2019 Denmark/Germany Qualified
Total 20/26 0 Titles 112 48 7 57 2,635 2,580 +55

European Championships

Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA GD
Portugal 1994 Portugal Did not participate
Spain 1996 Spain
Italy 1998 Italy
Croatia 2000 Croatia Match for 11th place 11th of 12 5 0 0 5 121 137 −16
Sweden 2002 Sweden Fourth Place 4th of 16 10 5 3 2 221 209 +12
Slovenia 2004 Slovenia Preliminary round 13th of 16 3 0 1 2 87 96 −9
Switzerland 2006 Switzerland Main round 7th of 16 8 3 2 3 190 191 −1
Norway 2008 Norway Main round 11th of 16 8 2 0 6 151 178 −27
Austria 2010 Austria Third Place 3rd of 16 8 4 3 1 249 240 +9
Serbia 2012 Serbia Main round 10th of 16 6 2 1 3 177 178 −1
Denmark 2014 Denmark Fifth place game 5th of 16 7 4 1 2 199 199 0
Poland 2016 Poland Preliminary round 13th of 16 3 1 0 2 92 101 −9
Croatia 2018 Croatia Preliminary round 13th of 16 3 1 0 2 74 82 −8
Total 10/13 0 Titles 60 22 11 28 1,561 1,611 −50

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2018 European Men's Handball Championship.[1]

Head coach: Geir Sveinsson

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 198 10 Iceland Haukar
3 P Kári Kristjánsson (1984-10-28) 28 October 1984 1.92 m 132 151 Iceland ÍBV
4 LB Aron Pálmarsson (1990-07-19) 19 July 1990 1.93 m 115 449 Spain FC Barcelona
5 RB Rúnar Kárason (1988-05-24) 24 May 1988 1.96 m 88 214 Germany TSV Hannover-Burgdorf
6 RB Ásgeir Örn Hallgrímsson (1984-02-17) 17 February 1984 1.94 m 252 420 France USAM Nîmes
7 LB Arnór Atlason (1984-07-23) 23 July 1984 1.91 m 200 437 Denmark Aalborg Håndbold
8 LW Bjarki Már Elísson (1990-05-16) 16 May 1990 1.91 m 39 85 Germany Füchse Berlin
9 LW Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson (1979-08-08) 8 August 1979 1.87 m 343 1798 Germany Rhein-Neckar Löwen
11 CB Ýmir Örn Gíslason (1997-07-01) 1 July 1997 1.97 m 9 1 Iceland Valur
13 LB Ólafur Guðmundsson (1990-05-13) 13 May 1990 1.94 m 93 153 Sweden IFK Kristianstad
14 RB Ómar Ingi Magnússon (1997-03-12) 12 March 1997 1.86 m 21 60 Denmark Aarhus Håndbold
17 RW Arnór Þór Gunnarsson (1987-10-23) 23 October 1987 1.79 m 81 191 Germany Bergischer HC
20 GK Ágúst Elí Björgvinsson (1995-04-11) 11 April 1995 1.90 m 7 0 Iceland FH
21 P Arnar Freyr Arnarsson (1996-03-14) 14 March 1996 2.01 m 24 34 Sweden IFK Kristianstad
26 P Bjarki Már Gunnarsson (1988-08-10) 10 August 1988 2.01 m 64 17 Iceland Stjarnan
33 CB Janus Daði Smárason (1995-01-01) 1 January 1995 1.84 m 21 33 Denmark Aalborg Håndbold

Apps and goals correct as of 12 January 2018 from the HSÍ website.[2][3]

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
5 1964–1967 Karl Benediktsson
6 1968 Birgir Björnsson
7 1968–1972 Hilmar Björnsson
(5) 1973–1974 Karl Benediktsson
(6) 1974–1975 Birgir Björnsson
8 1975–1976 Viðar Símonarson
9 1976–1977 Janus Czerwinsky
(6) 1977–1978 Birgir Björnsson
10 1978–1980 Jóhann Ingi Gunnarsson
(7) 1980–1983 Hilmar Björnsson
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
17 2012–2016 Aron Kristjánsson
18 2016–2018 Geir Sveinsson
(14) 2018–present Guðmundur Guðmundsson

List of captains

# Period Captain
N/A 2005 Dagur Sigurðsson
2005 2012 Ólafur Stefánsson
2012 - Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson

Individual all-time records

  Players still active with national team are highlighted.

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)

Kit suppliers

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

References

  1. ↑ 2018 European Championship roster
  2. ↑ http://www.hsi.is/landslid/a-landslid-karla/landslidsmenn/
  3. ↑ "A landslið karla Strákarnir ferðast til Frakklands á morgun, breytingar á hópnum". hsi.is. 9 January 2017.
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