Bjarni Guðjónsson
Personal information
Full name Bjarni Eggerts Guðjónsson[1]
Date of birth (1979-02-26) 26 February 1979[2]
Place of birth Akranes, Iceland
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
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 (11)
2003–2004 VfL Bochum 4 (1)
2004 → Coventry City (loan) 18 (3)
2004 Coventry City 10 (0)
2004–2006 Plymouth Argyle 25 (1)
2006–2008 ÍA 45 (12)
2008–2013 KR 108 (9)
Total 394 (52)
International career
1994–1995 Iceland U17 16 (1)
1995–1997 Iceland U19 12 (3)
1996–2001 Iceland U21 19 (4)
1997–2010 Iceland 23 (1)
Managerial career
2013–2014 Fram
2014–2016 KR
2017 Víkingur R. (assistant)
2018–2021 KR (assistant)
2021- IFK Norrköping (U19)
Medal record
ÍA
WinnerÚrvalsdeild1995
WinnerÚrvalsdeild1996
WinnerIcelandic Cup1996
WinnerIcelandic League Cup1996
Genk
WinnerBelgian First Division1998–99
KR
WinnerIcelandic Cup2008
Runner-upÚrvalsdeild2009
Runner-upIcelandic Cup2010
WinnerIcelandic League Cup2010
WinnerÚrvalsdeild2011
WinnerIcelandic Cup2011
WinnerIcelandic Cup2012
WinnerIcelandic League Cup2012
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bjarni Eggerts Guðjónsson (born 26 February 1979) is an Icelandic former professional footballer, who was last 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.[3]

Club career

Bjarni was born in Akranes.[1] He began his career at his hometown club ÍA, before moving to English club Newcastle United in 1997 for £500,000.[4] 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.[4] 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 was struggling to deal with being the son of the manager.[4] No transfer away from the club was forthcoming and Bjarni stayed for the 2001–02 season and this time played 54 matches as Stoke gained promotion via the play-offs.[5] Despite gaining promotion his father was sacked by the board.[6] Bjarni 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.[7] 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.[8] He was signed on a free by Plymouth Argyle who he stayed with for two years and was a popular character,[9] scoring once against Everton in the FA Cup,[10] before joining ÍA again in 2006.[11] In his second spell at ÍA he stayed for two years, until he was sold to KR in 2008.

International career

Bjarni 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.

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[12][13]
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other[lower-alpha 1] 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 81000050131
2000–01 Second Division 4262052525410
2001–02 Second Division 463411030544
2002–03 First Division 361301000401
Total 13211917213216116
VfL Bochum 2003–04 Bundesliga 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 39451458601038553770

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year[14]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Iceland 199741
199820
199910
200010
200240
200430
200520
200830
201030
Total231

Honours

ÍA

Genk

Stoke City

References

  1. 1 2 "Bjarni Guðjónsson". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "Bjarni Eggerts Gudjónsson". Soccerway. Global Sports Media. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
  3. ↑ "Bjarni Eggerts Guðjónsson" (in Icelandic). KSÍ. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 "Bjarni Gudjonsson Transfer Listed". Stoke City F.C. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  5. ↑ "Stoke seal promotion". BBC Sport. 11 May 2002. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  6. ↑ "Stoke sack Thordarson". BBC Sport. 16 May 2002. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  7. ↑ "Coventry sign Gudjonsson". BBC Sport. 16 January 2004. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  8. ↑ "Plymouth seal deal for Gudjonsson". BBC Sport. 17 December 2004. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  9. ↑ "Green Barmy: Everton FA Cup tie was Gudjonsson's Argyle highlight". 30 March 2018.
  10. ↑ "Plymouth 1–3 Everton". BBC Sport. 8 January 2005. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
  11. ↑ "Iceland's Gudjonsson exits Argyle". BBC Sport. 31 January 2006. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  12. ↑ "The English National Football Archive". Enfa.co.uk. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  13. ↑ The Football Association of Iceland
  14. ↑ Guðjónsson, Bjarni at National-Football-Teams.com
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