Bjarki Steinn Bjarkason
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Bjarki Steinn Bjarkason | ||
| Date of birth | 11 May 2000 | ||
| Place of birth | Reykjavík, Iceland | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position | Winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Südtirol | ||
| Number | 20 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2005–2017 | Afturelding | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2017 | Afturelding | 10 | (2) |
| 2018–2020 | ÍA | 41 | (5) |
| 2020–2026 | Venezia | 66 | (4) |
| 2022 | → Catanzaro (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| 2023 | → Foggia (loan) | 12 | (2) |
| 2026– | Südtirol | 1 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2016 | Iceland U17 | 3 | (0) |
| 2017 | Iceland U18 | 2 | (0) |
| 2018 | Iceland U19 | 3 | (0) |
| 2019–2022 | Iceland U21 | 14 | (0) |
| 2022– | Iceland | 7 | (0) |
|
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 22 August 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 9 September 2025 | |||
Bjarki Steinn Bjarkason (born 11 May 2000) is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as a winger for Serie B club Südtirol and the Iceland national team.
Club career
Bjarki made his debut for Afturelding in a 3–1 win against Völsungur on 15 July 2017.[1] On 6 December 2017, he joined ÍA and played there for three years.[2] On 21 August 2020, he joined Venezia.[3]
On 14 January 2022, he joined Serie C club Catanzaro on loan until the end of the season.[4]
Upon his return from loan, Bjarki did not make any league appearances for Venezia in the first half of the 2022–23 season, playing in one Coppa Italia game. On 20 January 2023, he was loaned to Serie C club Foggia.[5]
Personal life
His father is former international handballer, Bjarki Sigurðsson.[6][7][8]
Career statistics
Club
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Afturelding | 2016 | 2. deild | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2017 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 14 | 3 | ||||
| Total | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | — | — | 15 | 3 | ||||
| ÍA | 2018 | 1. deild | 16 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 24 | 2 | ||
| 2019 | Úrvalsdeild | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | — | — | 28 | 6 | |||
| 2020 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 10 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 41 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 15 | 5 | — | — | 62 | 10 | ||||
| Venezia | 2020–21 | Serie B | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 1[c] | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
| 2021–22 | Serie A | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 2022–23 | Serie B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 2023–24 | 32 | 3 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 3[c] | 0 | 36 | 3 | ||||
| 2024–25 | Serie A | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 9 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 51 | 3 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 4 | 0 | 60 | 3 | ||||
| Catanzaro (loan) | 2021–22 | Serie C | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
| Foggia (loan) | 2022–23 | Serie C | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 9[d] | 3 | 22 | 5 | ||
| Career total | 125 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 20 | 6 | — | 13 | 3 | 171 | 21 | |||
- ↑ Includes Icelandic Cup, Coppa Italia, Coppa Italia Serie C
- ↑ Includes Icelandic League Cup
- 1 2 Appearance(s) in Serie B play-off
- ↑ Appearance(s) in Serie C play-off
International
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iceland | 2022 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | |
| Total | 7 | 0 | |
Honours
Íþróttabandalag Akraness
- 1. deild karla: 2018
- Icelandic League Cup runner-up: 2019
References
- ↑ Afturelding 3 – 1 Völsungur 15.7.2017, ksi.is
- ↑ "Bjarki Steinn til ÍA (Staðfest)". 8 October 2020.
- ↑ "Bjarki Steinn til Venezia (Staðfest)". 8 October 2020.
- ↑ "BJARKI STEINN BJARKASON È UN CALCIATORE DEL CATANZARO" (in Italian). Catanzaro. 14 January 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ↑ "BENVENUTO BJARKASON" (in Italian). Foggia. 20 January 2023. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ↑ "Fótbolti.net".
- ↑ "Hefði viljað reyna mig við þá bestu í Þýskalandi".
- ↑ "Bjarki Steinn til Skagamanna".
- ↑ Bjarki Steinn Bjarkason at Soccerway
- ↑ "Leikmaður - Bjarki Steinn Bjarkason". www.ksi.is (in Icelandic). KSÍ. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
External links
- Bjarki Steinn Bjarkason at Soccerway
- Bjarki Steinn Bjarkason at KSÍ (in Icelandic)
Categories:
- 2000 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Reykjavík
- 21st-century Icelandic sportsmen
- Men's association football midfielders
- Icelandic men's footballers
- Iceland men's youth international footballers
- Iceland men's under-21 international footballers
- Iceland men's international footballers
- Besta deild karla players
- Serie A players
- Serie B players
- Serie C players
- Afturelding men's football players
- Íþróttabandalag Akraness players
- Venezia FC players
- US Catanzaro 1929 players
- Calcio Foggia 1920 players
- FC Südtirol players
- Icelandic expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
- Icelandic expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Icelandic football biography stubs