Sigurbergur Sveinsson

Sigurbergur Sveinsson

Player information
birthday	August 12, 1987
place of birth	Hafnarfjordur , Iceland
citizenship	Icelandic
height	1.91 m
Playing position	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar
Jersey number	11
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-2010	Haukar Hafnarfjörður
2010-2010	DHC Rhineland
2011-2011	TSV Hannover-Burgdorf
2011–2012	RTV 1879 Basel
2012-2014	Haukar Hafnarfjörður
2014-2015	HC Erlangen
2015-2016	Team Tvis Holstebro
2016–	ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar
National team
	Games (goals)
Iceland	56 (65)
As of January 7, 2017

Sigurbergur Sveinsson (born August 12, 1987 in Hafnarfjörður ) is a handball player from Iceland .

The 1.91 meters tall and 90 kilograms heavy left backcourt player has been under contract with ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar since summer 2016 .

Career

In July 2010, Sigurbergur Sveinsson moved from Haukar Hafnarfjörður to DHC Rheinland . Due to the insolvency of the Dormagener club in early November 2010, the players were allowed to leave the club free of charge. After a trial session in Hanover, TSV Hanover-Burgdorf signed him on February 11, 2011 with immediate effect until the end of the season. He then moved to Switzerland to RTV 1879 Basel . In the summer of 2012 Sigurbergur Sveinsson rejoined Haukar Hafnarfjörður. Two years later he moved to the German Bundesliga club HC Erlangen . In the 2015/16 season he played for the Danish first division team Tvis Holstebro . Then Sigurbergur Sveinsson joined the Icelandic club ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar . With ÍBV he won the Icelandic Championship and the Icelandic Cup in 2018.

For the Icelandic national team , Sigurbergur Sveinsson played 56 international matches until January 2017 and scored 65 goals; he was in the extended squad for the 2011 World Cup .

Web links

• Sigurbergur Sveinsson in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hsi.is: A landslið karla , accessed on January 7, 2017
2. ↑ TSV Hannover-Burgdorf commits Sigurbergur Sveinsson Article on haz.de from February 12, 2011
3. ↑ Sveinsson moves to Switzerland , handball-world.com on June 21, 2011
4. ^ Sigurbergur Sveinsson í Hauka , visir.is on May 14, 2012
5. ↑ Erlangen confirms the first new addition , handball-world.com on July 9, 2014
6. ↑ TTH henter islandsk landsholdsspiller i Bundesligaen ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , hbold.dk on May 9, 2015 
7. ↑ fimmeinn.is Breytingarnar í íslenska boltanum ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated August 3, 2016, accessed on August 14, 2016 
8. ↑ IHF.info, World Cup 2011 team squad (PDF; 197 kB)

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 .