Knattspyrnufélagið Þróttur

Þróttur
Full name	Knattspyrnufélagið Þróttur
Nickname(s)	Köttarar
Founded	5 August 1949
Ground	Eimskipsvöllurinn; Reykjavík, Iceland
Capacity	2,000
Chairman	Helgi Sævarsson (sports club); Kristján Kristjánsson (football department)
Manager	Ian jeffs (men's team)
League	1. deild karla
2023	1. deild karla, 8th of 12
Home colours	Away colours

Knattspyrnufélagið Þróttur, also referred to as Þróttur Reykjavík or Throttur, is a professional sports club from Reykjavík in Iceland. The club runs a football department as well as handball, volleyball and tennis departments. The club has enjoyed tremendous success in men's volleyball, winning a total of 14 Icelandic Championships since 1974. The handball department enjoyed great success in the early 1980s, winning its major honour, the Icelandic handball cup, in 1981. Football has been played by the club from start, and is the biggest of the four departments.

History

The club was founded on 5 August 1949. The club was founded in a Nissen hut on the west side of Reykjavík. The club drew support from local area which in the 1950s included large numbers of Nissen huts, an area that was in many ways poverty stricken. The club struggled financially for the first years. The club moved in 1969 to the east side of Reykjavík to a new district that was expanding in the 1960s. The club founded a handball department in the 1950s, and was quite successful in women's handball, winning every available trophy in 1957. A volleyball department was founded in 1974 and has since become the most successful volleyball team in Iceland. The handball department faced financial difficulties in the late 1980s and was disbanded in 1989, but revived in the year 2000. From 1989 the club has also had a Tennis department.

The club moved its headquarters again in 1999 to the nearby area of Laugardalur. Plans to merge the club with neighbors Glímufélagið Ármann did not prove successful, the two clubs now share a location but specialize in different types of sports. Þróttur concentrate more on group sports whereas Ármann focuses more on individual sports, except for basketball.

Recent seasons in football

The team played in the Úrvalsdeild Karla (men's premier division) in 2005, but it was relegated to the 1. deild karla (men's second league level). They clinched promotion again after the 2007 season. In 2008 the team finished in 10th place, just above the relegation zone. Þróttur was the first to be relegated during the 2009 season, having been sent down after playing only 19 games out of the 22. The 2010 season saw the return of former favorite player, Páll Einarsson, as coach. The season was an overall disappointment and the club finished in mid table in division one. In the following season, the team finished in similar position. The 2012 started off badly, but a mid season turnaround meant that the team made a challenge for promotion, but in the end came in 3rd place. After another poor start to the 2013 season Páll Einarsson was sacked and was replaced by Serbian Zoran Milkjović. Following the 2013 season, Zoran Milkjović left the club, and was replaced by Gregg Ryder who had previously been the assistant coach at ÍBV.

The women's team was promoted to the Úrvalsdeild kvenna (women's top division) in 2010, but got relegated the year after. In 2012 the team got off to bad start but nevertheless managed to win the league and promotion back into the top division.^{[citation needed]}

Current squad

As of 13 May 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ISL	Sveinn Óli Guðnason
2	MF	ISL	Eiríkur Þórsteinsson Blöndal
3	DF	ISL	Stefán Þórður Stefánsson
4	MF	ISL	Njördur Þórhallsson
5	MF	NOR	Jörgen Pettersen
6	MF	ISL	Emil Skúli Einarsson
7	MF	ISL	Sigurður Steinar Björnsson (on loan from Víkingur Reykjavík)
8	MF	ISL	Baldur Hannes Stefánsson
9	FW	ISL	Viktor Andri Hafþórsson
10	DF	ISL	Guðmundur Axel Hilmarsson
12	GK	ISL	Þórhallur Ísak Guðmundsson
14	MF	ISL	Birkir Björnsson
17	FW	ESP	Izaro Abella
19	DF	ISL	Ísak Ívarsson (on loan from Víkingur Reykjavík)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	DF	ISL	Viktor Steinarsson
21	DF	ISL	Brynjar Gautur Harðarson
22	MF	ISL	Kári Kristjánsson
23	FW	ISL	Andi Morina
24	DF	ISL	Daníel Karl Thrastarson
25	MF	ISL	Hlynur Þórhallsson
26	DF	ISL	Samúel Már Kristinsson
28	MF	ISL	Ólafur Fjalar Freysson
77	FW	EQG	Cristopher Moisés
95	FW	ISL	Dagur Traustason (on loan from FH)
99	MF	UKR	Kostyantyn Yaroshenko
—	GK	ISL	Hilmar Örn Pétursson
—	DF	ISL	Þórir Guðjónsson