Iceland Euro 2024 squad: Age Hareide's full squad for the Euro 2024 play-offs

Iceland
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Ah, the Iceland Euro 2024 squad: a prospect to send a reflexive shudder down any Englishman's spine.

Those with a less hideously Anglo-centric worldview will remember Iceland's run to the Euro 2016 quarter-finals in their first-ever major tournament with great fondness, however. The chants! The unexpected results! What a lot of fun it all was.

Qualification for the World Cup followed two years later in another first, but Iceland have been absent from the most recent editions of each competition.

A play-off final against Ukraine is all that stands in their way of reliving those recent glory days, though.

If they can make it there, we'll all be wearing Viking helmets once more. You know...unless they ended up playing England in the knockouts. Which, looking at the tournament brackets, is actually a distinct possibility.

Iceland's squad

Iceland's Euro 2024 squad: The squad for the Euro 2024 play-offs

  • GK: Elias Rafn Olafsson (Mafra)
  • GK: Hakon Valdimarsson (Brentford)
  • GK: Patrik Gunarsson (Viking Stavanger)
  • DF: Alfons Sampsted (Twente)
  • DF: Gudmundur Thorinsson (OFI Crete)
  • DF: Victor Palsson (Eupen)
  • DF: Sverrir Ingi Ingason (Midtjylland)
  • DF: Hjortur Hermannsson (Pisa)
  • DF: Kolbeinn Finnsson (Lyngby)
  • DF: Daniel Leo Gretarsson (Sonderjyske)
  • MF: Mikael Egill Ellertsson (Venezia)
  • MF: Arnor Sigurdsson (Blackburn Rovers)
  • MF: Mikael Anderson (AGF)
  • MF: Hakon Arnar Haraldsson (Lille)
  • MF: Isak Bergmann Johannesson (Fortuna Dusseldorf on loan from Copenhagen)
  • MF: Arnor Ingvi Traustason (Norrkoping)
  • MF: Kristian Hlynsson (Ajax)
  • MF: Johann Berg Gudmundsson (Burnley)
  • MF: Stefan Teitur Thordarson (Silkeborg)
  • FW: Jon Dagur Thorsteinsson (OH Leuven)
  • FW: Albert Gudmundsson (Genoa)
  • FW: Alfred Finnbogason (Eupen)
  • FW: Willum Thor Willumsson (Go Ahead Eagles)
  • FW: Orri Oskarsson (Copenhagen)
  • FW: Andri Gudjohnsen (Lyngby on loan from Norrkoping)

Iceland Euro 2024 squad numbers

Squad numbers are yet to be confirmed for Euro 2024.

Iceland manager: Age Hareide

Age Hareide

Age Hareide, Iceland manager (Image credit: Getty Images)

A Manchester City and Norwich City defender in the 1980s, former Norwegian international Age Hareide is now managing his third Scandinavian nation after spells in charge of his home country and Denmark, who he took to Euro 2016 and the 2018 World Cup.

Hareide also led Denmark through qualification for Euro 2020, but the tournament's postponement after his replacement had already been named (a switch that was intended to happen after the tournament) meant Kasper Hjulmand led them to the semi-finals instead.

Having taken the Iceland job in April last year, Hareide wants to have another pop at the Euros to add to his league titles at club level in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

Iceland's star player

Sverrir Ingi Ingason

Sverrir Ingi Ingason

Sverrir Ingi Ingason (Image credit: Getty Images)

The kind of player whose gruff face tells you everything you need to know about him in an instant, centre-back Sverrir Ingi Ingason is a regular for Danish Superliga leaders Midtjylland and one of the most experienced players in the Iceland set-up.

Ingason was only a bit-part player at Euro 2016, when he was only 22, but had established himself as a regular just in time for the 2018 World Cup.

After a couple of years of not being involved much for his country, Ingason has become an important player once more since Hareide's appointment.

FAQs

How many players are Iceland allowed to take to Euro 2024?

UEFA confirmed in February that each competing nation will be able to name a final squad of 23 players in their Euro 2024 squads, including a mandatory three goalkeepers.

After a couple of tournaments featuring 26-player teams, UEFA have now reverted from the expanded squad. 

National managers were allowed to bring 26 players to 2021's European Championship for the first time at a major tournament, as a special measure brought in due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the fixture congestion, the expanded squads returned for the World Cup. Without those same issues, 23-player squads have made a return.

Steven Chicken

Steven Chicken has been working as a football writer since 2009, taking in stints with Football365 and the Huddersfield Examiner. Steven still covers Huddersfield Town home and away for his own publication, WeAreTerriers.com. Steven is a two-time nominee for Regional Journalist of the Year at the prestigious British Sports Journalism Awards, making the shortlist in 2020 and 2023.

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