Daníel Hafsteinsson (born 12 November 1999) is an

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

attacking midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. ...

, who plays for

Knattspyrnufélag Akureyrar Knattspyrnufélag Akureyrar (, ), commonly abbreviated to KA, is an Icelandic multi-sport club based in Akureyri in the north of Iceland. The club was founded in 1928. The football team currently plays in Besta deild karla and have won the top ...

in Úrvalsdeild karla.

Club career

KA

Daníel started his career with local club KA in 2017, after having played 3 games with local feeder club Dalvík/Reynir in 2016. In 2018 he played 20 games for KA in

Úrvalsdeild The Besta deild karla () is a professional association football league in Iceland and the highest level of the Icelandic football league system. The competition was founded in 1912 as the Icelandic Championship. Because of the harsh winters in I ...

and was voted young player of the season by the club. After 12 games in the league with KA in 2019 he was sold to

Helsingborgs IF Helsingborgs Idrottsförening, commonly referred to as Helsingborgs IF, Helsingborg or (especially locally) HIF (), is a Swedish professional football club located in Helsingborg. They play in the Swedish second tier, Superettan, following releg ...

for undisclosed fee on 17 July 2019.

Helsingborgs IF

He joined HIF 17 July 2019 and signed a 3.5 years contract. Daníel made his debut for

on 29 July in a 1–4 loss against Örebro.

Knattspyrnufélag Akureyrar

He joined KA Akureyrar on 6 February 2021.

Career statistics

References

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