Knattspyrnufélagið Víkingur is a sports club in Reykjavík

Reykjavík

Reykjavík is the capital and largest city in Iceland.Its latitude at 64°08' N makes it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói Bay...

, Iceland

Iceland

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. It is best known for its football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 team. The club was founded in 1908 and has been fairly successful over the years. Its last Iceland

Iceland

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ic title came in 1991, when the team won the Icelandic championship

Landsbankadeild

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The club operates several other sport divisions including Team handball

Team handball

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, Tennis

Tennis

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, Table tennis

Table tennis

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, Karate

Karate

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 & Skiing

Skiing

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. All sports include both male and female teams.

Vikingur's coach is Ólafur Þórðarson, formerly coach of Fylkir

Fylkir

Fylkir FC is an athletic club in Árbær, in the eastern part of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland.Former players include Helgi Valur Daníelsson, who now plays for AIK, and Ólafur Ingi Skúlason, formerly of Arsenal and currently plays for Zulte Waregem in Belgium. Ragnar Sigurðsson who plays with...

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Current squad

Staff

• Coach: Ólafur Þórðarson
  • Appointed in Oktober 2011.
• Assistant Coach: Helgi Sigurðsson
• Physio: Veigur Sveinsson
• Chairman: Björn Einarsson
• Boardmember: Friðrik Magnússon
• Boardmember: Halldór Sæmundsson
• Boardmember: Heimir Gunnlaugsson
• Boardmember: Sigurður Sighvatsson
• Boardmember: Valdimar Sigurðsson
• Boardmember: Þorgrímur Leifsson
• Managing director: Haraldur V. Haraldsson

Club honours

• Icelandic Champions: 1920, 1924, 1981, 1982, 1991
• Icelandic Cup: 1971
• Icelandic Champions of Champions: 1982, 1983
• Icelandic 1st Division Champions: 1969, 1971, 1973, 1987, 2010
• Reykjavik Champions: 1940, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1982
• Spring Champions: 1951

Champions Cup

• 30.09.1992: Víkingur - CSKA Moskva (2-4)
• 16.09.1992: Víkingur - CSKA Moskva (0-1)
• 28.09.1983: Víkingur - Raba ETO
  Gyori ETO FC
  Győri ETO FC , Győri Egyetértés Torna Osztály Football Club or just Győr, is a Hungarian sports club from Győr, a mid-size town in the north-west of the country. In 1904 the club was founded as Győri Vagongyár ETO and has undergone many name changes since...
  
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• 14.09.1983: Víkingur - Raba ETO
  Gyori ETO FC
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   (1-2)
• 29.09.1982: Víkingur - Real Sociedad
  Real Sociedad
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   (2-3)
• 15.09.1982: Víkingur - Real Sociedad
  Real Sociedad
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   (0-1)

Other information

• For the first 10 years of Vikingur's history, the team only lost one match. In that period Vikingur scored 58 goals and conceded 16. The team did not win a single title in that time because they did not yet have a senior side. It wasn't until 1918 that the team first competed in the Icelandic league.
• Vikingur have had players from Stoke City F.C.
  Stoke City F.C.
  Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that plays in the Premier League. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts...
  
   on loan before. In 2004 they also had two players on loan, Jermaine Palmer and Richard Keogh.
• The last time Vikingur played in the Icelandic top-flight, the team was relegated by conceding a 90th minute goal in their last match of the season against UMFG
  Ungmennafélag Grindavíkur
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• While Vikingur's fan base is rather small, they have got a fan club in Dublin, Ireland, which goes by the name of "Jerry Palmer's Barmy Army"- dedicated to the former Vikingur goal machine.

Notable players

Jimmy Høyer

Jimmy Høyer

Jimmy Høyer is a Danish professional football midfielder who currently plays for Icelandic team Knattspyrnufélagið Víkingur.-External links:* at Danmarks Radio...

 Carl Dickinson

Carl Dickinson

Carl Matthew Dickinson is an English footballer who currently plays for Watford. He is a left back.-Stoke City:...

 Jermaine Palmer

Jermaine Palmer

Jermaine Ashley Clifton Palmer is an English footballer who plays for Holbeach United as a striker. He played professionally for Stoke City and Grimsby Town before moving into non-League.-Career:...

 Steve Slade

Steve Slade

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 Viktor Bjarki Arnarsson

Viktor Bjarki Arnarsson

Viktor Bjarki Arnarsson is a football player who currently plays for KR Reykjavik.He was on loan to his native club in Iceland, KR Reykjavik, for the 2008-season, but he went back to Lillestrøm after the season. In 2009 he signed a one-year contract with Nybergsund IL-Trysil in Adeccoligaen in...

 Kári Árnason

Kári Árnason

Kári Árnason is an Icelandic international footballer who plays for Scottish Premier League club . He has also played for Víkingur, Djurgården, AGF Aarhus, Esbjerg fB and...

 Arnór Guðjohnsen

Arnór Guðjohnsen

Arnór Guðjohnsen is a former Icelandic footballer who played as a striker. He is most famous for his seven-year stint with Belgian club Anderlecht and was the club's top scorer in the 1986–87 season. He is the father of striker Eiður Guðjohnsen.-Club career:Guðjohnsen played for the following...

 Lárus Guðmundsson

Lárus Guðmundsson

Lárus Guðmundsson is a former Icelandic professional footballer who played as a striker.-Club career:Guðmundsson started at Víkingur and later was successful in the German Bundesliga with Bayer Uerdingen and 1. FC Kaiserslautern....

 Heimir Karlsson
Gunnar Kristjánsson Sölvi Ottesen

Sölvi Ottesen

Sölvi Geir Ottesen Jónsson is an Icelandic footballer, currently playing as a centre back for Danish Superliga club F.C. Copenhagen.-Club career:...

 Helgi Sigurðsson

Helgi Sigurðsson

Helgi Sigurðsson is an Icelandic football player. He currently plays his trade as a striker for Víkingur R. in 1. deild karla. In his career he has played in Iceland, Germany, Norway, Greece and Denmark.-Club career:...

 Richard Keogh

Richard Keogh

Richard John Keogh is an footballer defender who plays for Football League Championship side Coventry City.-Bristol City:...

 Gordon Hunter

Gordon Hunter (footballer)

Gordon Hunter is a retired Scottish association football player, who played as a defender for , Canberra Cosmos, , , and . Hunter was part of the team that won the 1991 Scottish League Cup Final and he was granted a testimonial match by Hibernian in 1996...

 Colin McKee

Colin McKee

Colin McKee is a former Scottish footballer. He retired from football in 2001 after a season with Fauldhouse United. His usual position was as a forward, but he was equally adept at playing on the wing....

 Alan Prentice Miloš Glogovac Sinisa Kekic

External links

• Official website
• Vikingur's supporters club