Bjarni Guðjónsson

Bjarni Guðjónsson
Personal information
Full name Bjarni Eggerts Guðjónsson
Date of birth (1979-02-26) 26 February 1979[1]
Place of birth Akranes, Iceland
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 KR (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1995–1997 ÍA 26 (15)
1997–1998 Newcastle United 0 (0)
1998–2000 Genk 26 (0)
2000–2003 Stoke City 132 (12)
2003–2004 VfL Bochum 4 (1)
2004 → Coventry City (loan) 18 (3)
2004 Coventry City 10 (0)
2004–2006 Plymouth Argyle 25 (0)
2006–2008 ÍA 45 (12)
2008–2013 KR 108 (9)
National team
1994–1995 Iceland U17 16 (1)
1995–1997 Iceland U19 12 (3)
1996–2001 Iceland U21 19 (4)
1997–2010 Iceland 23 (1)
Teams managed
2013–2014 Fram
2014– KR

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Bjarni Guðjónsson (born 26 February 1979) is an Icelandic footballer and manager who is manager of KR.

He has played in Belgium, England and Germany and has two brothers who have also played professional football, Þórður and Jóhannes. All three played together at Genk. He is also the son of former footballer and now manager Guðjón Þórðarson.[2]

Club career

Bjarni Guðjónsson began his career at his hometown club ÍA, before moving to English club Newcastle United in 1997 for £500,000.[3] He failed to break into the first team at the club and left a year later for Belgian club Genk before returning to England in 2000 with Stoke City in a £250,000 signing joining up with his father Guðjón Þórðarson who was manager.[3] He became a regular in the first team and made 53 appearances in the 2000–01 season however he was transfer listed at the end of the season as his father felt Bjarni Guðjónsson was struggling to deal with being the son of the manager.[3] No transfer away from the club was forthcoming and Bjarni Guðjónsson stayed for the 2001–02 season and this time played 54 matches as Stoke gained promotion via the play-offs.[4] Despite gaining promotion his father was sacked by the board.[5] Bjarni Guðjónsson stayed at Stoke and helped the club to avoid relegation before he joined his brother Þórður Guðjónsson at VfL Bochum on a free transfer.

He struggled to cement a place in the first team at Bochum and was loaned out to Coventry City in 2004 where he excelled under the management of Eric Black.[6] Coventry signed him on a free later that year however he struggled for game time under new manager Peter Reid and eventually fell out of favour.[7] He was signed on a free by Plymouth Argyle who he stayed with for two years, scoring once against Everton in the FA Cup,[8] before joining ÍA again in 2006.[9] In his second spell at ÍA he stayed for two years, until he was sold to KR in 2008.

International career

He made his debut for Iceland as a substitute for Helgi Sigurðsson in a friendly match against Slovakia in April 1997 and has been capped 19 more times since, scoring once against Liechtenstein in a World Cup qualifier in 1997, as well as captaining his side in a 2008 fixture.

Honours

IA
Genk
Stoke City

Career statistics

Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other[A] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
ÍA 1995 Úrvalsdeild 3000000030
1996 Úrvalsdeild 17135400102317
1997 Úrvalsdeild 6200001173
Total 26155400213320
Newcastle United 1997–98 Premier League 0000000000
1998–99 Premier League 0000000000
Total 0000000000
Genk 1998–99 Belgian First Division 7000000070
1999–2000 Belgian First Division 190000000190
Total 260000000260
Stoke City 1999–2000 Second Division 82000050132
2000–01 Second Division 4262052525410
2001–02 Second Division 463411030544
2002–03 First Division 361301000401
Total 13212917213216117
VfL Bochum 2003–04 Bundesliga 4110100061
Total 4110100061
Coventry City 2003–04 First Division 183200000203
2004–05 Championship 100003000130
Total 283203000333
Plymouth Argyle 2004–05 Championship 150110000161
2005–06 Championship 100001000110
Total 250111000271
ÍA 2006 Úrvalsdeild 175214021257
2007 Úrvalsdeild 177206100258
2008 Úrvalsdeild 110107210202
Total 451251173317017
KR 2008 Úrvalsdeild 7120000091
2009 Úrvalsdeild 212404150333
2010 Úrvalsdeild 201507140362
2011 Úrvalsdeild 212418041374
2012 Úrvalsdeild 210506030340
2013 Úrvalsdeild 183207340306
Total 108921132520118216
Career Total 39452458601038553771
A. ^ The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the Icelandic Super Cup, Football League play-offs, Football League Trophy, UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League.

References

  1. ↑ "Bjarni Eggerts Gudjónsson". Soccerway. Global Sports Media. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
  2. ↑ "Bjarni Eggerts Guðjónsson" (in Icelandic). KSÍ. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "Bjarni Gudjonsson Transfer Listed". Stoke City F.C. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  4. ↑ "Stoke seal promotion". BBC Sport. 11 May 2002. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  5. ↑ "Stoke sack Thordarson". BBC Sport. 16 May 2002. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  6. ↑ "Coventry sign Gudjonsson". BBC Sport. 16 January 2004. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  7. ↑ "Plymouth seal deal for Gudjonsson". BBC Sport. 17 December 2004. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  8. ↑ "Plymouth 1–3 Everton". BBC Sport. 8 January 2005. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
  9. ↑ "Iceland's Gudjonsson exits Argyle". BBC Sport. 31 January 2006. Retrieved 2 March 2012.

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