Iceland national football team

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Published Jul 6, 2026

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The Iceland national football team （Icelandic: Íslenska karlalandsliðið í knattspyrnu） represents Iceland in men's international football.
The team is controlled by the Football Association of Iceland, and have been a FIFA member since 1947 and an UEFA member since 1957.
The team's nickname is Strákarnir okkar, which means Our Boys in Icelandic.
The team has enjoyed success in the second half of the 2010s.
In the qualifying rounds for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Iceland reached the playoffs before losing to Croatia.
Iceland reached its first major tournament, UEFA Euro 2016, after a qualification campaign which included home and away wins over the Netherlands.
After advancing to the knockout stages of Euro 2016, Iceland defeated England in the Round of 16, advancing to the quarter-finals, where they lost to host nation France 5–2.
They became the smallest nation by population to ever clinch a FIFA World Cup berth when they qualified for the 2018 tournament on 9 October 2017.
They drew with Argentina in their opening match, but nonetheless still went out in the group stage.
Although Úrvalsdeild, the Icelandic Football League, was founded in 1912, the country's first international match was played on 29 July 1930, against the Faroe Islands.
Although Iceland won 1–0 away, both teams were at the time unaffiliated with FIFA. The first match officially recognised by FIFA took place in Reykjavík on 17 July 1946, a 0–3 loss to Denmark.
The first international victory was against Finland in 1947.
For the first 20 years of the Football Association of Iceland （KSÍ）'s existence, the team mostly did not participate in qualifying for the FIFA World Cup or the UEFA European Championship.
In 1954, Iceland applied to take part in qualification for the 1954 World Cup, but the applicatio...