Icelandic footballers

I've been sharing posts on the World Cup 2026, which starts today, and Icelandic football is an area which is of interest.

There is a great book on the development of the league called 'Against the Elements' by Matt McGinn

With a population of just 350,000, Iceland stunned the world when it went toe-to-toe with the elite at Euro 2016 and the 2018 World Cup. So how was such a tiny nation able to take on the giants of world football? Part travelogue, part thematic investigation, Against the Elements searches for the reason for Iceland's remarkable, unprecedented rise.

John Wilkinson put me onto this.

This website: the Football Observatory has several tools, including a migration tool.

You can see where Icelandic footballers have moved to in order to play in overseas leagues.