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This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Viðar.

Viðar Kjartansson
Viðar playing for Iceland in 2014
Personal information
Full name Viðar Örn Kjartansson
Date of birth (1990-03-11) 11 March 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Selfoss, Iceland
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Malmö FF
Number 24
Youth career
0000–2006 Selfoss
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2008 Selfoss 45 (12)
2009 ÍBV 17 (2)
2010–2012 Selfoss 55 (26)
2013 Fylkir 22 (13)
2014 Vålerenga 29 (25)
2015 Jiangsu Sainty 28 (9)
2016– Malmö FF 6 (3)
International career‡
2006–2007 Iceland U17 8 (4)
2008 Iceland U19 2 (0)
2014– Iceland 9 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 May 2016
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2 April 2016

Viðar Örn Kjartansson (born 11 March 1990) is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as a striker for Swedish club Malmö FF.

Club career

Viðar made his debut for Selfoss in 2006, aged 16. He joined Icelandic top division club ÍBV in 2009 but rejoined Selfoss after a short stint with ÍBV.

He joined Icelandic club Fylkir in 2013 and after a very prolific goalscoring season in the Icelandic top flight, he joined Norwegian club Vålerenga in December 2013.[1] Viðar scored his first goal for Vålerenga in a 3-1 home win over Bodø/Glimt on 6. April 2014.

After his first year in Norway, Viðar ended up as the top scorer in the Norwegian top league with 25 goals scored in 29 games.

On 22 January 2015, Viðar transferred to Chinese Super League side Jiangsu Guoxin-Sainty.[2] Jiangsu Guoxin-Sainty signed him for 3.5 million euros. On 7 March 2015, he made his debut and scored his first goal for Jiangsu in the first league match of the 2015 season which Jiangsu Sainty lost to Shanghai SIPG 2–1.[3]

Viðar played a vital part in the Chinese FA cup. And was the club's top goalscorer in the cup with 4 goals which helped Jiangsu to win their first trophy in history of the club.[citation needed]

On 27 January 2016, he signed for Swedish club Malmö FF.[4][5] On 1 May 2016, Viðar scored his first hattrick for Malmö FF against BK Häcken.

Career statistics

Club

As of 2 April 2016[6][7]
Club performance League Cup League Cup Continental Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Iceland League Icelandic Cup League Cup Europe Total
2006 Selfoss 2. deild 7 2 - - 4 2 - - 11 4
2007 16 2 2 0 5 2 - - 23 4
2008 1. deild 22 8 1 2 5 1 - - 28 11
2009 ÍBV Úrvalsdeild 17 2 2 1 5 3 - - 24 6
2010 Selfoss 12 3 - - - - - - 12 3
2011 1. deild 22 16 2 1 7 4 - - 31 21
2012 Úrvalsdeild 21 7 3 1 3 3 - - 27 11
2013 Fylkir 22 13 3 5 5 5 - - 30 23
Norway League Norwegian Cup League Cup Europe Total
2014 Vålerenga Tippeligaen 29 25 4 6 - - - - 33 31
China League Chinese FA Cup League Cup AFC Total
2015 Jiangsu Sainty Chinese Super League 28 9 7 4 - - - - 35 13
Sweden League Svenska Cupen – UEFA Total
2016 Malmö FF Allsvenskan 1 0 5 3 - - – 6 3
Career Total 196 87 27 22 34 20 - - 260 130

References

  1. ^ "Vålerenga signerer Vidar Ørn Kjartansson". Vålerenga Fotbal (in Norwegian). 20 December 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  2. ^ 江苏舜天官方宣布签挪超金靴 at sports.sohu.com 2015-01-22 Retrieved 2015-01-22
  3. ^ 中超-孔卡爆发策动两球 于海首球上港2-1舜天 at sports.sina.com 2015-03-07 Retrieved 2015-03-11
  4. ^ http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/sverige/allsvenskan/malmoff/article22160093.ab
  5. ^ http://www.mff.se/sv-SE/aktuellt/nyheter/Nyheter/2016-01-27_valkommen_till_mff_vidar_orn_kjartansson
  6. ^ http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=75379
  7. ^ http://www.ksi.is/mot/motalisti/felagsmadur/?pLeikmadurNr=155293&pListi=5
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