Viðar Örn Kjartansson (; born 11 March 1990) is an Icelandic professional

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who plays as a striker for Super League Greece club Atromitos.

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 Íþróttafélagið Fylkir is a multi-sport club in Árbær, in the eastern part of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. It features departments in football, handball, volleyball, gymnastics and karate. Kit The Fylkir official home kit is combi ...

in 2013 and after a very prolific goalscoring season in the Icelandic top flight, he joined Norwegian club

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in December 2013. 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

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side

Jiangsu Guoxin-Sainty Jiangsu Football Club (), later known as Jiangsu Sainty F.C. (2000–2016) and Jiangsu Suning F.C. (2016–2021), was a professional football club that participated in the Chinese Super League since 2009 until its dissolution in 2021. The tea ...

. 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

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2–1. Viðar played a vital part in the Chinese FA cup, and was the club's top goalscorer in the cup with four goals, which helped Jiangsu to win their first trophy in history of the club. On 27 January 2016, he signed for Swedish club

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. On 30 August 2016, he transferred to Israeli club

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. 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

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club

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, joining his compatriots

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, Björn Bergmann Sigurðarson and Sverrir Ingi Ingason at the club. 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

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. On 18 March 2019, Viðar signed a five-month loan deal with Hammarby IF in Allsvenskan. On 20 July 2019, he joined Russian club

FC Rubin Kazan FC Rubin Kazan (russian: Футбо́льный клуб Руби́н Каза́нь, ''Futbolny klub Rubin Kazan'' , Tatar: Рубин Казан) is a Russian professional football club based in the city of Kazan. They play in the second-tier ...

on loan for the 2019–20 season. 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. On 27 January 2020, Rostov announced that he was loaned to Turkish club

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. On 28 August 2020, he returned to

and signed a contract until 2023. On 1 August 2022, he joined Atromitos on a two-year deal. He scored in his debut against OFI, helping to a 3–1 home win in the season's opener season's opener.

International career

Viðar made his senior international debut for

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in 2014, starting as a centre forward in a friendly against

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. He scored his first international goal in a friendly against the

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in January 2016. Despite a strong run for his club team

, Viðar was overlooked for a spot in Iceland's

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squad and instead put on the team's standby list. His second international goal came in a friendly against

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in November 2017. Viðar once again missed out on playing in an international championship, when he was left out of Iceland's

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squad, serving as a non-squad reserve. Viðar announced his retirement from international duty in October 2018 at the age of 28, having won 19 caps and scored two goals. In March 2019, Viðar reversed his decision to retire from the national team and was called up to represent Iceland in the

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games against

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and

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Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Iceland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Viðar goal.''

Honours

Jiangsu Sainty *

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: 2015 Malmö FF * Allsvenskan:

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Maccabi Tel Aviv *

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: 2017–18 Individual * Úrvalsdeild Top goalscorer:

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* Eliteserien Forward of the Year:

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* Eliteserien Top goalscorer:

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Top goalscorer:

* Allsvenskan Forward of the Year:

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Top goalscorer: 2016–17 * ONE magazine player of the week: January 2018

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