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Alfons Sampsted

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This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a family name, but this person is referred to by the given name Alfons.

Alfons Sampsted
Sampsted with Twente in 2023
Personal information
Date of birth (1998-04-06) 6 April 1998 (age 26)
Place of birth Kópavogur, Iceland
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Right back[1]
Team information
Current team
 Birmingham City
(on loan from Twente)
Number 23
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 37 (0)
2024– → Birmingham City (loan) 8 (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 23 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:31, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:21, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Alfons Sampsted (born 6 April 1998) is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as a right-back for EFL League One club Birmingham City, on loan from Eredivisie club Twente, and for the Iceland national team.

Club career

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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]

He joined English League One (third-tier) club Birmingham City on 12 August 2024 on loan for the season. The deal included an option to purchase.[8] He made "a solid, no nonsense debut" the next day as a second-half substitute in Birmingham's 1–0 EFL Cup win away to Charlton Athletic.[9]

International career

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Alfons is as of 15 November 2020 the highest capped player of the Icelandic U21 national team with 30 games.[2][10]

Career statistics

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Club

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As of match played 14 January 2025 [11]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] League cup[b] Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals 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 24 0 0 0 — 5 1 — 24 1
2024–25 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 — 0 0
Total 37 0 2 0 — 5 1 — 39 1
Birmingham City (loan) 2024–25[12] League One 8 0 2 0 2 0 — 2[c] 0 14 0
Career total 197 4 18 1 2 0 44 3 2 0 258 8
  1. ^ Includes Icelandic Men's Football Cup, Svenska Cupen, Norwegian Football Cup, KNVB Cup, FA Cup
  2. ^ Includes EFL Cup
  3. ^ Appearances in EFL Trophy

International

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As of match played 19 November 2024[13]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Iceland 2020 2 0
2021 5 0
2022 7 0
2023 7 0
2024 2 0
Total 23 0

Honours

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Bodø/Glimt

References

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  1. ^ a b Alfons Sampsted at WorldFootball.net
  2. ^ a b c "Leikmaður - Alfons Sampsted". www.ksi.is (in Icelandic). KSÍ. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  3. ^ Ingvi Þór Sæmundsson (20 January 2017). "Alfons til Norrköping - Vísir". visir.is. Vísir. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  4. ^ Sæbjörn Þór Þórbergsson. "Alfons Sampsted: Líður eins og töluvert heilsteyptari leikmanni". fotbolti.net (in Icelandic). Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Aðstæður til að verða betri fótboltamaður". www.mbl.is (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  6. ^ Arnar Geir Halldórsson (22 November 2020). "Valdimar skoraði og Alfons lagði upp mark þegar Bodo/Glimt tryggði sér titilinn - Vísir". visir.is. Vísir. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Alfons Sampsted naar FC Twente" (Press release) (in Dutch). FC Twente. 27 December 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  8. ^ Dicken, Alex (12 August 2024). "Confirmed: Birmingham City complete 11th signing of summer transfer window". Birmingham Live. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
  9. ^ Dicken, Alex (3 August 2024). "Birmingham City player ratings after Brandon Khela's belter downs Charlton". Birmingham Live. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
  10. ^ "Alfons sló leikjamet Hólmars". www.mbl.is (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  11. ^ "Alfons Sampsted". altomfotball.no (in Norwegian). TV 2. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  12. ^ "Games played by Alfons Sampsted in 2024/2025". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  13. ^ "Leikmaður: Alfons Sampsted" [Player: Alfons Sampsted] (in Icelandic). Knattspyrnusamband Íslands (Iceland Football Association). Retrieved 19 November 2024.
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