Halldóra Vanda Sigurgeirsdóttir (born 28 June 1965) is an Icelandic former

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who played both for the Icelandic national football team and the

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. In 2001 she became the first woman in Iceland to coach a men's football team when she was hired as the manager of Neisti Hofsósi. In 2020, she was awarded the

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for her work towards women's football. In 2021, she became the first female chairman of the

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Early life

Vanda started playing football at an early age with the boys team of Ungmennafélag Tindastóll. When she moved to

Akureyri Akureyri (, ) is a town in northern Iceland, the country's fifth most populous Municipalities of Iceland, municipality (under the official name of Akureyrarbær , 'town of Akureyri') and the largest outside the Capital Region (Iceland), Capital R ...

to study at the

Menntaskólinn á Akureyri The Akureyri Junior College ( , regionally also ; ) is an Icelandic gymnasium (academic secondary school). It is one of the oldest educational institutions in Iceland. The Menntaskólinn á Akureyri traces its roots to the ancient school in H ...

, she played with a women's team for the first time.

Football

Club career

Vanda started her senior team career with

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 1982 in the second-tier league. She went on to play several seasons in the Icelandic top-tier Úrvalsdeild kvenna with ÍA and Breiðablik. Her last game was on 21 June 2008 when she was called into Tindastóll's squad an hour before its game against Höttur due to an injury to Tindastóll's goalkeeper. It was the first time in her career that she had played the goalkeeper position.

National team career

From 1985 to 1996, Vanda played 37 matches for the Icelandic national football team, scoring one goal. She was the captain of the team for 28 matches.

Executive career

On 2 October 2021, Vanda became the first female chairman of the

Titles

* Icelandic championships: 1984, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996 *

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: 1989, 1994, 1996

Awards

* Úrvalsdeild kvenna Player of the Year: 1990

Basketball

Club career

Vanda played basketball for several seasons with Íþróttafélag Stúdenta. She was a key player in the ÍS team that won the

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and the Icelandic Cup in 1991.

National team career

She played 9 games for the

from 1989 to 1991. She helped the team to Bronze at the

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