Alfons Sampsted
.jpg) Sampsted with Twente in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 6 April 1998 | ||
| Place of birth | Kópavogur, Iceland | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Right back[1] | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Twente | ||
| Number | 12 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2016 | Breiðablik | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2015–2016 | Breiðablik | 17 | (0) |
| 2015 | → Þór Akureyri (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 2017–2019 | IFK Norrköping | 2 | (0) |
| 2017 | → IF Sylvia (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2018 | → Landskrona BoIS (loan) | 12 | (1) |
| 2019 | → IF Sylvia (loan) | 16 | (1) |
| 2019 | → Breiðablik (loan) | 8 | (1) |
| 2020–2022 | Bodø/Glimt | 88 | (1) |
| 2023– | Twente | 32 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2014 | Iceland U16 | 7 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Iceland U17 | 8 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Iceland U19 | 10 | (0) |
| 2017–2020 | Iceland U21 | 30 | (1) |
| 2020– | Iceland | 21 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 November 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 November 2023 | |||
Alfons Sampsted (born 6 April 1998) is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Eredivisie club Twente and the Iceland national team.
Club career[edit]
Alfons started his career with local club Breiðablik in Kópavogur in 2015, playing a single cup game, before going on loan to Þór from Akureyri for the latter half of the season.[2] In 2016, he played most of Breiðablik's games as they finished 6th in the 2016 Úrvalsdeild.[2]
In January 2017, he was transferred to Swedish club IFK Norrköping.[3] He spent three seasons there without ever cementing his place, spending time on loan at IF Sylvia and Landskrona BoIS in Sweden and Breiðablik in Iceland.[4]
In February 2020, he joined Norwegian club Bodø/Glimt and was a key player in the 2020 season as the club won their first national title.[5][6] There, he replaced former right back player Erlend Reitan who was on loan from Rosenborg.
On 27 December 2022, he joined Dutch club FC Twente.[7]
International career[edit]
Alfons is as of 15 November 2020 the highest capped player of the Icelandic U21 national team with 30 games.[2][8]
Career statistics[edit]
Club[edit]
- As of match played 25 February 2024 [9]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | Continental | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Breiðablik | 2015 | Úrvalsdeild | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | |
| 2016 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 0 | ||
| Total | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 0 | ||
| Þór Akureyri (loan) | 2015 | 1. deild | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 9 | 0 | |
| Norrköping | 2017 | Allsvenskan | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| Total | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Landskrona (loan) | 2018 | Superettan | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 13 | 1 | |
| Sylvia (loan) | 2019 | Ettan | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 16 | 1 | |
| Breiðablik (loan) | 2019 | Úrvalsdeild | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 9 | 1 | |
| Bodø/Glimt | 2020 | Eliteserien | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 0 |
| 2021 | 29 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 46 | 1 | ||
| 2022 | 30 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 56 | 3 | ||
| Total | 88 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 37 | 2 | 135 | 4 | ||
| Twente | 2022–23 | Eredivisie | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 2023–24 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 24 | 1 | ||
| Total | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 39 | 1 | ||
| Career total | 184 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 44 | 3 | 244 | 8 | ||
Honours[edit]
Bodø/Glimt
References[edit]
- ^ a b Alfons Sampsted at WorldFootball.net
- ^ a b c "Leikmaður - Alfons Sampsted". www.ksi.is (in Icelandic). KSÍ. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- ^ Ingvi Þór Sæmundsson. "Alfons til Norrköping - Vísir". visir.is. Vísir. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- ^ Sæbjörn Þór Þórbergsson. "Alfons Sampsted: Líður eins og töluvert heilsteyptari leikmanni". fotbolti.net (in Icelandic). Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- ^ "Aðstæður til að verða betri fótboltamaður". www.mbl.is (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- ^ Arnar Geir Halldórsson. "Valdimar skoraði og Alfons lagði upp mark þegar Bodo/Glimt tryggði sér titilinn - Vísir". visir.is. Vísir. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- ^ "Alfons Sampsted naar FC Twente" (Press release) (in Dutch). FC Twente. 27 December 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
- ^ "Alfons sló leikjamet Hólmars". www.mbl.is (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- ^ "Alfons Sampsted". altomfotball.no (in Norwegian). TV 2. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
External links[edit]
- Alfons Sampsted at the Football Association of Iceland (in Icelandic)
- Alfons Sampsted at the Swedish Football Association (in Swedish)
- Alfons Sampsted at Elite Football
- Living people
- 1998 births
- Icelandic men's footballers
- Men's association football fullbacks
- Iceland men's under-21 international footballers
- Iceland men's youth international footballers
- Þór Akureyri players
- Breiðablik men's football players
- IFK Norrköping players
- Landskrona BoIS players
- IF Sylvia players
- FK Bodø/Glimt players
- FC Twente players
- Superettan players
- Allsvenskan players
- Ettan Fotboll players
- Úrvalsdeild karla (football) players
- Eliteserien players
- Eredivisie players
- Icelandic expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden
- Icelandic expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
- Expatriate men's footballers in Norway
- Icelandic expatriate sportspeople in Norway
- Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
- Icelandic expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Icelandic people with family names
- Iceland men's international footballers
- People from Kópavogur