Valur
Full nameKnattspyrnufélagið Valur
Short nameValur
Founded1911 (1911)
ArenaOrigo-höllin (Origo arena)
Capacity2,000
LeagueÚrvalsdeild karla
Club colours   
Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
Home
Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
Away
Website
Official site

The Valur men's handball is a Iceland professional team handball club from Reykjavík, that plays in the Úrvalsdeild karla.

Location of Valur
Reykjavík
Reykjavík
Location of Valur

History

The Valur men's handball team has a long history in Icelandic handball, the club is one of the most successful in the sport in Iceland: no team has won the Icelandic Championship and the Icelandic Cup as many times as the Valur men's team. The team's greatest achievement was undoubtedly reaching the final of the EHF Champions League in 1980, which it lost against the German TV Grosswallstadt. The final was played in the Munich Olympic Hall and was lost 21:12. Since then, no Icelandic club team has reached the finals of a European competition.

Crest, colours, supporters

Kit manufacturers

Period Kit manufacturer
- 2016 Denmark Hummel
2016 - present Italy Macron

Kits

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2022–23 season[1]
Valur

Technical staff

  • Head Coach: Iceland Snorri Guðjónsson
  • Assistant Coach: Iceland Óskar Bjarni Óskarsson
  • Goalkeeping Coach: Iceland Hlynur Morthens

Transfers

Transfers for the 2022–23 season

Previous Squads

Accomplishments

Domestic

  • Úrvalsdeild karla
    • Winner (24) : 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2007, 2017, 2021, 2022
  • Icelandic Men's Handball Cup
    • Winner (12) : 1974, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1998, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022

International

European record

European Cup and Champions League

Season Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1979–80
Finalist
Round 2 England Brentwood'72 HC 38–14 32–19 70–33
Quarter-finals Sweden HK Drott 18–16 17–18 35–34
Semi-finals Spain Atlético Madrid BM 18–15 21–24 39–39 (a)
Finals Germany TV Grosswallstadt 12–21

EHF ranking

As of 12/10/2022[2]
RankTeamPoints
65Russia Dinamo Viktor Stavropol83
66Austria Handballclub Fivers Margareten82
67Turkey Beşiktaş JK80
68Iceland Valur80
69Sweden Ystads IF79
70Poland Górnik Zabrze78
71Norway ØIF Arendal76

Former club members

Notable former players

Former coaches

SeasonsCoachCountry
Boris Bjarni Akbashev Soviet Union
2017-2023 Snorri Guðjónsson Iceland

References

  1. "Valur - Players, Team & Season Info | EHF".
  2. "Eurotopteam, classement européen des clubs de Handball".
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