Eggert Magnússon

Eggert Magnússon

Eggert Magnússon (born February 20 1947) is an Icelandic businessman and former President of the Football Association of Iceland and ex-chairman of West Ham United. Magnússon is a former owner and CEO of an import/export and bread and biscuit manufacturing company.

Brief football history

Magnússon was president of the Football Association of Iceland (KSÍ), and was an important voice on the UEFA Executive Committee as a representative of one of UEFA's smaller member associations, but had to resign due to the takeover of West Ham United FC. [cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/uefa/aboutuefa/ExecutiveCommitee/exco=53572.html |title=UEFA Organisation - Profile: Eggert Magnússon |accessdate=2006-12-09 | publisher=UEFA]

Magnússon was elected to the UEFA Executive Committee in April 2002, after previous membership of the Licensed Match Agents panel (1992-94). Fair Play Committee (1994-96) and Club Competitions Committee (1996-2002). Magnússon contributes to the development of women's football as the Executive Committee’s representative on the Women’s Football Committee, also Magnússon is a member of the Clubs and Leagues Working Group.

West Ham United

Takeover

On 21 November 2006, West Ham announced that they had reached an agreement with a consortium headed by Magnússon for the sale of the club, worth £85m. [cite web |url=http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=sportsNews&storyID=2006-11-21T175459Z_01_WLB3485_RTRUKOC_0_UK-LEISURE-WEST-HAM-FAPL.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-C2-NextArticle-1 |title=West Ham agree takeover by Icelandic group |accessdate=2006-12-09 |author=Martyn Herman |date=2006-11-21 | publisher=Reuters]

Team manager change

After a run of bad results Magnússon sacked manager Alan Pardew on December 11 2006,cite news
title = Pardew sacked as West Ham manager
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/6169349.stm
publisher = BBC Sport
date = 2006-12-11
accessdate = 2007-03-19
] replacing him with Alan Curbishley.cite news
title = Curbishley named West Ham manager
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/6171205.stm
publisher = BBC Sport
date = 2006-12-13
accessdate = 2007-03-19
]

Change of duties

On 18 September 2007, it was announced that Magnússon would step down as executive chairmancite web
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] but would still retain the role as club non-executive chairman overseeing a new managemant structure, and would keep his stake in the club.cite web
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However on 13 December 2007, it was announced that Magnússon had left West Ham and that his 5 per cent holding had been bought by club majority owner Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson.cite news
title = Eggert is victim of Hammers' reshuffle as he loses chairman's role at Upton Park
url = http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=501674&in_page_id=1779&ito=newsnow
publisher = Daily Mail
date = 2007-12-13
accessdate = 2007-12-13
]

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