Iceland men's national handball team

Iceland
Information
Nickname	Strákarnir okkar (English: Our boys)
Association	Icelandic Handball Association (Handknattleikssamband Íslands)
Coach	Snorri Guðjónsson
Assistant coach	Arnór Atlason Roland Eradze Óskar Bjarni Óskarsson
Captain	Ómar Ingi Magnússon
Most caps	Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson (407)
Most goals	Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson (1879)
Colours
1st 2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	7 (First in 1972)
Best result	2nd (2008)
World Championship
Appearances	23 (First in 1958)
Best result	5th (1997)
European Championship
Appearances	14 (First in 2000)
Best result	3rd (2010)
Last updated on Unknown.

Iceland men's national handball team

Medal record
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	Team
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.

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

  Champions    Runners-up    Third place    Fourth place  

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

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	7	3	0	4	155	159	−4
1990 Czechoslovakia	Main round	10th of 16	7	2	0	5	151	169	−18
1993 Sweden	Main round	8th of 16	7	3	0	4	158	155	+3
1995 Iceland	Round of 16	14th of 24	7	3	0	4	154	160	−6
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	337	315	+22
2009 Croatia	did not qualify
2011 Sweden	Ranking games	6th of 24	9	5	0	4	266	246	+20
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	170	155	+15
/ 2023 Poland/Sweden	Main round	12th of 32	6	4	0	2	207	183	+24
/ / 2025 Croatia/Denmark/Norway	Main round	9th of 32	6	5	0	1	180	135	+45
2027 Germany	qualified
/ 2029 France/Germany	to be determined
// 2031 Denmark/Iceland/Norway	Qualiifed as co-host
Total	25/32	0 Titles	144	64	7	73	3690	3540	+150

All teams in these tournaments are European, all World and Olympic Champions, and top 7 from World Championships and Olympics were participating. They were mini European championships at the time, till 1994 when official European Championship started.

EURO World Cup tournament Sweden

• 1988 : 4th place

EURO Super Cup tournament Germany

• None

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	Fourth place	4th of 24	9	5	1	3	296	263	+33
// 2028	To be determined
2030
2032
Total	14/20		87	37	11	39	2510	2509	+1

Squad for the 2026 European Men's Handball Championship.^[1][2]

Head coach: Snorri Guðjónsson

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 287 26 Valur 2 RW Óðinn Þór Ríkharðsson (1997-10-23) 23 October 1997 1.83 m 58 178 Kadetten Schaffhausen 3 CB Janus Daði Smárason (1995-01-01) 1 January 1995 1.84 m 100 177 SC Pick Szeged 6 CB Elvar Ásgeirsson (1994-09-04) 4 September 1994 1.94 m 21 24 SGI-Håndbold 7 RB Viggó Kristjánsson (1993-12-09) 9 December 1993 1.87 m 73 219 HC Erlangen 8 LW Bjarki Már Elísson (1990-05-16) 16 May 1990 1.90 m 128 426 Veszprém KC 9 LB Elvar Örn Jónsson (1997-08-31) 31 August 1997 1.85 m 93 214 SC Magdeburg 10 CB Gísli Þorgeir Kristjánsson (1999-07-30) 30 July 1999 1.86 m 75 171 SC Magdeburg 11 P Ýmir Örn Gíslason (1997-07-15) 15 July 1997 1.96 m 108 48 Frisch Auf Göppingen 14 RB Ómar Ingi Magnússon (1997-03-12) 12 March 1997 1.86 m 94 341 SC Magdeburg 15 LB Þorsteinn Leó Gunnarsson (2002-11-13) 13 November 2002 2.08 m 19 39 FC Porto 16 GK Viktor Gísli Hallgrímsson (2000-07-24) 24 July 2000 2.04 m 74 2 FC Barcelona 18 P Elliði Snær Viðarsson (1998-11-15) 15 November 1998 1.94 m 64 138 VfL Gummersbach 19 LW Orri Freyr Þorkelsson (1999-06-25) 25 June 1999 1.84 m 32 106 Sporting CP 21 P Arnar Freyr Arnarsson (1996-03-14) 14 March 1996 2.01 m 107 115 MT Melsungen 22 RW Sigvaldi Guðjónsson (1994-07-04) 4 July 1994 1.92 m 85 230 Kolstad Håndball 24 RB Teitur Örn Einarsson (1998-09-23) 23 September 1998 1.90 m 48 46 VfL Gummersbach 25 CB Haukur Þrastarson (2001-04-14) 14 April 2001 1.93 m 47 64 Rhein-Neckar Löwen 27 LB Einar Þorsteinn Ólafsson (2001-09-30) 30 September 2001 2.00 m 27 7 HSV Hamburg 34 CB Andri Már Rúnarsson (2002-08-21) 21 August 2002 1.88 m 8 8 HC Erlangen

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

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

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

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