Viðar Örn Kjartansson

Viðar Örn Kjartansson (Icelandic pronunciation: ​[ˈvɪːðar œrtn̥ ˈcʰar̥tansɔn]; born 11 March 1990) is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as a striker for Norwegian club Vålerenga IF.

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Viðar.

Viðar Örn Kjartansson
Viðar playing for FC Rubin Kazan in 2019
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-03-11) 11 March 1990
Place of birth Selfoss, Iceland
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 Vålerenga
Number 9
Youth career
0000–2006 Selfoss
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2008 Selfoss 45 (12)
2009 ÍBV 17 (2)
2010–2012 Selfoss 55 (26)
2013 Fylkir 22 (13)
2014 Vålerenga 29 (25)
2015 Jiangsu Sainty 28 (9)
2016 Malmö FF 20 (14)
2016–2018 Maccabi Tel Aviv 63 (32)
2018–2020 FC Rostov 8 (0)
2019 → Hammarby IF (loan) 15 (7)
2019 → Rubin Kazan (loan) 16 (1)
2020 → Yeni Malatyaspor (loan) 15 (2)
2020– Vålerenga 14 (9)
National team‡
2006–2007 Iceland U17 8 (4)
2008 Iceland U19 2 (0)
2014– Iceland 28 (4)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 December 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 November 2020

Club career

Viðar made his debut for Selfoss in 2006, aged 16. He joined Icelandic top division club ÍBV in 2009 but rejoined Selfoss after a short stint with ÍBV.

He joined Icelandic club Fylkir in 2013 and after a very prolific goalscoring season in the Icelandic top flight, he joined Norwegian club Vålerenga in December 2013.[2] Viðar scored his first goal for Vålerenga in a 3-1 home win over Bodø/Glimt on 6. April 2014.

After his first year in Norway, Viðar ended up as the top scorer in the Norwegian top league with 25 goals scored in 29 games.

On 22 January 2015, Viðar transferred to Chinese Super League side Jiangsu Guoxin-Sainty.[3] Jiangsu Guoxin-Sainty signed him for €3.5 million. On 7 March 2015, he made his debut and scored his first goal for Jiangsu in the first league match of the 2015 season which Jiangsu Sainty lost to Shanghai SIPG 2–1.[4]

Viðar played a vital part in the Chinese FA cup, and was the club's top goalscorer in the cup with 4 goals, which helped Jiangsu to win their first trophy in history of the club.

On 27 January 2016, he signed for Swedish club Malmö FF.[5][6]

On 30 August 2016, he transferred to Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv. He signed a four-year deal with the club. On 26 October 2016 Viðar won the Swedish championship as Malmö FF sealed the title in his absence.

On 31 August 2018, he signed a four-year contract with the Russian Premier League club FC Rostov, joining his compatriots Ragnar Sigurðsson, Björn Bergmann Sigurðarson and Sverrir Ingi Ingason at the club.[7] He scored his first two goals for the club on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup 4–0 victory over a third-tier club FC Syzran-2003.[8]

On 18 March 2019, Viðar signed a five-month loan deal with Hammarby IF in Allsvenskan.[9]

On 20 July 2019, he joined Russian club FC Rubin Kazan on loan for the 2019–20 season.[10] He played 16 league games and scored one goal during the first half of the season, as Rubin Kazan was placed 13th in the table, before terminating his loan deal on 11 January 2020.[11] On 27 January 2020, Rostov announced that he was loaned to Turkish club Yeni Malatyaspor.[12]

On 28 August 2020, he returned to Vålerenga and signed a contract until 2023.[13]

International career

Viðar made his senior international debut for Iceland in 2014, starting as a centre forward in a friendly against Austria.[14] He scored his first international goal in a friendly against the United Arab Emirates in January 2016.[15] Despite a strong run for his club team Malmö FF, Viðar was overlooked for a spot in Iceland's Euro 2016 squad and instead put on the team's standby list.[16] His second international goal came in a friendly against Qatar in November 2017.[17] Viðar once again missed out on playing in an international championship, when he was left out of Iceland's World Cup 2018 squad, serving as a non-squad reserve.[18]

Viðar announced his retirement from international duty in October 2018 at the age of 28, having won 19 caps and scored 2 goals.[19]

In March 2019, Viðar reversed his decision to retire from the national team and was called up to represent Iceland in the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying games against Andorra and France.[20]

Career statistics
Viðar playing for Iceland in 2014

Club
As of 22 December 2020[21][22]
Club performance League Cup League Cup Continental Total
SeasonClubLeague AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals
Iceland League Icelandic Cup League Cup UEFA Total
2006Selfoss2. deild 72—42—114
2007 1622052—234
20081. deild 2281251—2811
2009ÍBVÚrvalsdeild 1722153—246
2010Selfoss 123———123
20111. deild 22162174—3121
2012Úrvalsdeild 2173133—2711
2013Fylkir 22133555—3023
Norway League Norwegian Cup — UEFA Total
2014VålerengaTippeligaen 292546——3331
China League Chinese FA Cup — AFC Total
2015Jiangsu SaintyChinese Super League 28974——3513
Sweden League Svenska Cupen — UEFA Total
2016Malmö FFAllsvenskan 201463——2617
Israel League Israeli Cup Toto Cup UEFA Total
2016–17Maccabi Tel AvivIsraeli Premier League 33194420514424
2017–18 30130034943920
Russia League Russian Cup — UEFA Total
2018–19FC RostovRussian Premier League 8032——112
Sweden League Svenska Cupen — – Total
2019Hammarby IFAllsvenskan 15700——157
Russia League Russian Cup — UEFA Total
2019–20Rubin KazanRussian Premier League 16110——171
Turkey League Turkish Cup — UEFA Total
2019–20Yeni MalatyasporSüper Lig 152———152
Norway League Norwegian Cup — UEFA Total
2020VålerengaTippeligaen 14900——149
Career Total 34715238293924145438210

International goals
Scores and results list Iceland's goal tally first.[23]
GoalDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.16 January 2016Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates1–01–2Friendly
2.14 November 2017Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha, Qatar Qatar1–01–1
3.22 March 2019Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella, Andorra Andorra2–02–0UEFA Euro 2020 qualification
4.15 November 2020Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark Denmark1–11–22020–21 UEFA Nations League A

Honours

Club

Jiangsu Sainty

Malmö FF

Maccabi Tel Aviv

Individual

References
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