Rúnar Kristinsson

Rúnar Kristinsson
Personnel
birthday	5th September 1969
place of birth	Reykjavík ,  Iceland
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
1983	Leiknir Reykjavík
1984–?	KR Reykjavík
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
until 1994	KR Reykjavík	126 (21)
1995-1997	Örgryte IS	59 (13)
1997-2000	Lillestrøm SK	71 (14)
2000-2007	SC Lokeren	189 (37)
2007	KR Reykjavík	14 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1984-1985	Iceland U-17	18 0(9)
1987	Iceland U-19	11 0(1)
1987-1991	Iceland U-21	11 0(3)
1987-2004	Iceland	104 0(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2010-2014	KR Reykjavík
2015-2016	Lillestrøm SK
2016-2017	SC Lokeren
2018–	KR Reykjavík
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of career

Rúnar Kristinsson (born September 5, 1969 in Reykjavík ) is a former Icelandic football player and current coach . The midfielder is Iceland's record international player with 104 caps.

Club career

He started his career at the amateur club Leiknir Reykjavík before moving to Iceland's largest football club, KR Reykjavík , at the age of 14 . Here he had his first successes and in 1995 moved to Sweden to Örgryte IS , later to the Norwegian club Lillestrøm SK and finally to Belgium to SC Lokeren . In 2007 he returned to his old club, KR Reykjavík. Rúnar scored 95 goals in 445 professional games. He ended his career at the end of 2007.

National team career

From 1984 to 1991 he played in various youth teams in Iceland. 1987 was called up for the first time in Iceland's national team, where he played 104 games by 2004 and scored three goals. He was the captain eleven times.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career, he worked as a football coach. In July 2010 he became the head coach of his former club, KR Reykjavík . In 2011 and 2013 he won the Icelandic championship with his club. At the beginning of 2015 he moved to Lillestrøm SK in Norway. He worked there until his release in September 2016. A month later he succeeded Georges Leekens at SC Lokeren . In August 2017 he was replaced by Peter Maes . Since the beginning of 2018 he has been in charge of KR Reykjavík again.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIFA only recognizes 100 international matches, as three games were played as part of the 1988 Olympic qualification and one game on April 27, 1991 against England's B national team.

Web links

• Rúnar Kristinsson in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile at the Icelandic Football Association (Icelandic)

Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .