Iceland national football team

Infobox National football team
Name = Iceland
Badge = Iceland FA.png FIFA Trigramme = ISL
Nickname = Strákarnir okkar
Association = Knattspyrnusamband Íslands
Confederation = UEFA (Europe)
Coach = flagicon|Iceland Ólafur Jóhannesson
Asst Manager = flagicon|Iceland Pétur Pétursson
Captain = Hermann Hreiðarsson
Vice-Captain = Eiður Smári Guðjohnsen
Most caps = Rúnar Kristinsson (104)
Top scorer = Eiður Guðjohnsen (22)
Home Stadium = Laugardalsvöllur (Reykjavík)
FIFA Rank = 107
FIFA max = 37
FIFA max date = September 1994
FIFA min = 117
FIFA min date = August 2007
Elo Rank = 110
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First game = fb|Faroe Islands 0 – 1 Iceland flagicon|Iceland
(Faroe Islands; 29 July 1930)
Largest win = flagicon|IcelandIceland 9 – 0 fb-rt|Faroe Islands
(Keflavík, Iceland; 10 July 1985)
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(Copenhagen, Denmark; 23 August 1967)
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Regional cup best =The Iceland national football team is the national football team of Iceland and is controlled by the Football Association of Iceland. It has never advanced to the finals of any major international competition.

For the Euro 2004, Iceland were led by Asgeir Sigurvinsson topping the group table for a while, with 4 wins and even held Germany to a 0–0 draw in Reykjavík, however both Germany and Scotland had a game in hand to them and both used them to their maximum potential, with Scotland beating Lithuania and Germany beat Scotland in Germany's penultimate game. Iceland failed to grind a result in their final game against Germany, and Scotland pipped them to a play-off place. Iceland have failed to match this since, finishing on just 4 points for the 2006 World Cup qualifiers and 8 points from their Euro 2008 qualifying campaign.

Iceland were knocked out in the quarter finals of the 2001 Millennium Super Cup to a Chilean Football League XI, this was following a 3-0 victory over hosts India.

Perhaps its most notable match was a friendly against Estonia on 24 April 1996 in Tallinn. During the second half of this match, Eiður Guðjohnsen entered as a substitute for his father Arnór. This marked the first time that a father and son played in the same international match. Another landmark for Icelandic football was the 2–0 upset victory over Italy in a friendly at Laugardalsvöllur, 18 August 2004 [cite web| url=http://www.ksi.is/mot/motalisti/leikskyrsla?Leikur=66722| title=Leikskýrsla| date=2004-08-18| accessdate=2008-07-02| language=Icelandic] with 20,204 fans in attendance, an Icelandic record. [cite web| url=http://www.ksi.is/english/| title=The Football Association of Iceland| accessdate=2008-07-02]

World Cup record

*1930 to 1950 – "Did not enter"
*1954 – "Entry not accepted by FIFA"
*1958 – "Did not qualify"
*1962 to 1970 – "Did not enter"
*1974 to 2006 – "Did not qualify"

European Championship record

*1960 – "Did not enter"
*1964 – "Did not qualify"
*1968 – "Did not enter"
*1972 – "Did not enter"
*1976 to 2008 – "Did not qualify"

2010 FIFA World Cup qualification

2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 9
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Current Squad

Called up for the 2010 World Cup qualifiers against Macedonia and Holland on October 2, 2008.

Notable results

the * denotes a player still playing or available for selection.

National coaches

The first four national coaches (1946-9) only managed the team for a single game.

*Frederick Steele & Murdo McDougall (1946)
*Roland Bergström (1947)
*Joe Devene (1948)
*Fritz Buchloh - (1949)
*Óli B Jónsson (1951)
*Franz Köhler (1953)
*Karl Guðmundsson (1954-6)
*Alexander Wier (1957)
*Óli B Jónsson (1958)
*Karl Guðmundsson (1959)
*Óli B Jónasson (1960)
*Karl Guðmundsson (1961)
*Ríkharður Jónsson - (1962)
*Karl Guðmundsson (1963-6)
*Reynir Karlsson (1967)
*Walter Pfeiffer (1968)
*Ríkharður Jónsson (1969-71)
*Duncan McDowell (1972)
*Eggert Jóhannesson (1972)
*Henning Enoksen (1973)
*Tony Knapp - (1974-7)
*Jurí Ilitchev (1978-9)
*Guðni Kjartansson (1980-1)
*Jóhannes Atlason (1982-3)
*Tony Knapp (1984-5)
*Siegfried Held (1986-9)
*Guðni Kjartansson (1989)
*Bo Johansson (1990-1)
*Ásgeir Elíasson (1991-5)
*Logi Ólafsson - (1996-7)
*Guðjón Þórðarson (1997-9)
*Atli Eðvaldsson (2000-3)
*Ásgeir Sigurvinsson & Logi Ólafsson (2003-5)
*Eyjólfur Sverrisson (2006-7)
*Ólafur Jóhannesson (2007-?)

References

External links

* [http://www.ksi.is/english/ Football Association of Iceland]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Park/3802/Iceland/index.html?200716 Iceland National Team (1946-2000) by Jostein Nygård (Norway)]
* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/ijs-intres.html RSSSF archive of results 1946-]