The
Iceland national football team
The Iceland national football team (in ) represents Iceland in men's international football. The team is controlled by the Football Association of Iceland, and have been a FIFA member since 1947 and an UEFA member since 1957. The team's nickn ...
is the representative
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affiliated to
FIFA. The team played its first match on 17 July 1946 against
Denmark
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and played only
friendly matches
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for the first eleven years of its existence before participating in the qualification campaign for the
1958 FIFA World Cup. Iceland have played a total of 402 international fixtures as of 16 October 2012.
More than 400 players have represented Iceland in international football; of these,
Rúnar Kristinsson has won the most
caps
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with a total of 104 between 1987 and 2004, making him the only Icelander to make more than 100 appearances for the country. Conversely, the Iceland careers of 78 of those players consisted of a single international cap.
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and
Barcelona
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forward
Eiður Guðjohnsen
Eiður Smári Guðjohnsen (transliterated as Eidur Smari Gudjohnsen; born 15 September 1978) is an Icelandic professional football coach and former player who played as a forward. Eiður saw his greatest success in England and Spain with Chels ...
is the all-time leading goalscorer for Iceland, with 24 goals in 74 matches.
Ríkharður Jónsson
Ríkharður Jónsson (12 November 1929 – 14 February 2017) was an Icelandic football player and manager.
He made his debut for the Icelandic national team in 1947, and got 33 caps and 17 goals until 1965.
This made him top goalscorer of th ...
scored the second-most goals with 17, while Guðjohnsen's father
Arnór is joint-third in the rankings alongside
Ríkharður Daðason
Ríkharður Daðason (born 26 April 1972) is an Icelandic former professional footballer who played as a striker for Fram Reykjavik, KR, Kalamata, Viking, Stoke City, Lillestrøm and Fredrikstad.
Education
Ríkharður graduated from Colu ...
on 14 goals.
Key
List of players
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