Ingvar Jónsson

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

Ingvar “Geit” Jónsson Jr.
Personal information
Full name Ingvar Jónsson
Date of birth (1989-10-18) 18 October 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth Keflavík, Iceland
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Víkingur
Number 1
Youth career
Njarðvík
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2010 Njarðvík 65 (0)
2011–2014 Stjarnan 79 (0)
2015–2016 Start 1 (0)
2015 → Sandnes Ulf (loan) 15 (0)
2016–2018 Sandefjord 54 (0)
2018–2019 Viborg 36 (0)
2020– Víkingur Reykjavík 87 (0)
International career‡
2008 Iceland U-19 3 (0)
2008 Iceland U-21 1 (0)
2014– Iceland 8 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 May 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 January 2019

Ingvar Jónsson (born 18 October 1989) is an Icelandic football goalkeeper who plays for Víkingur Reykjavík and the Iceland national team. He made his senior debut in 2014, earning 8 caps for Iceland and was selected for Euro 2016 as an unused member.

Club career

Ingvar started his career with local club Njarðvík before moving to Stjarnan in the Úrvalsdeild before the 2011 season.[1] With Stjarnan he won the 2014 Úrvalsdeild and was after the season voted by his fellow players the best player of the 2014 Úrvalsdeild.[2] Stjarnan also had a good Europa League run in 2014, advancing past Bangor City, Motherwell and Lech Poznań before losing to Inter Milan in the play-off round.[3]

In 2015, he joined IK Start, but could not secure the first spot in competition with Håkon Opdal. In the summer transfer window, he thus joined Sandnes Ulf on loan.[4]

After one and a half year at Danish club Viborg FF, Jónsson left the club at the end of 2019.[5]

On the 18th of January 2020 it was announced that Ingvar Jónsson would join Víkingur, signing a three-year contract.

International career

Ingvar made his first international appearance on 12 November 2014 in a match against Belgium, when he came on as a substitute for Ögmundur Kristinsson at half-time.[6]

He was selected for EURO 2016.[7]

Honours

Stjarnan

Víkingur FC

References

  1. ^ "Ingvar valdi Stjörnuna". mbl.is. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Ingvar: Gríðarlega stoltur". mbl.is. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
  3. ^ uefa.com. "UEFA Europa League 2014/15 - History - Stjarnan – UEFA.com". uefa.com. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
  4. ^ Stenersen, Steffen (15 July 2015). "Han er ny Start-keeper". Fædrelandsvennen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  5. ^ VFF tager afsked med Ingvar Jónsson, vff.dk, 4 December 2019
  6. ^ "Tveggja marka tap gegn Belgum ytra". Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  7. ^ "A karla – Lokahópur fyrir EM 2016" (in Icelandic). Knattspyrnusamband Íslands. 9 May 2016. Archived from the original on 12 May 2016. Retrieved 10 May 2016.


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