EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS /18 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS

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1 Iceland EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS /18 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Laugardalsvöllur - Reykjavik Thursday 6 October CET (18.45 local time) Group I - Matchday 2 Finland Last updated 14/12/ :07CET EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Squad list 3 Head coach 5 Match officials 6 Competition facts 7 Match-by-match lineups 8 Legend 10 1

2 Previous meetings Head to Head Total Qualifying Home Away Final tournament Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Iceland Finland

3 Squad list Iceland Current season Qual. FT No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Hannes Halldórsson 27/04/ Randers Ögmundur Kristinsson 19/06/ Hammarby Ingvar Jónsson 18/10/ Sandefjord Defenders - Ragnar Sigurdsson 19/06/ Fulham Ari Skúlason 14/05/ Lokeren Elmar Bjarnason 04/03/ AGF Birkir Sævarsson 11/11/ Hammarby Hólmar Eyjólfsson 06/08/ Rosenborg Hordur Magnússon 11/02/ Bristol City Haukur Heidar Hauksson 01/09/ AIK Sverrir Ingason 05/08/ Lokeren Midfielders - Ólafur Skúlason 01/04/ Karabükspor Birkir Bjarnason 27/05/ Basel Kári Árnason 13/10/ Malmö Aron Gunnarsson 22/04/ Cardiff * Gylfi Sigurdsson 08/09/ Swansea Rúnar Már Sigurjónsson 18/06/ Grasshoppers Arnór Ingvi Traustason 30/04/ Rapid Wien Forwards - Vidar Orn Kjartansson 11/03/ M. Tel-Aviv Björn Sigurdarsson 26/02/ Molde Johann Gudmundsson 27/10/ Burnley Alfred Finnbogason 01/02/ Augsburg * Jón Dadi Bödvarsson 25/05/ Wolves Coach - Heimir Hallgrímsson 10/06/

4 Finland Current season Qual. No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Niki Mäenpää 23/01/ Brighton Lukas Hradecky 24/11/ Frankfurt Jesse Joronen 21/03/ Fulham Defenders - Niklas Moisander 29/09/ Bremen Markus Halsti 19/03/ Midtjylland Kari Arkivuo 23/06/ Häcken Jukka Raitala 15/09/ Sogndal Juhani Ojala 19/06/ Seinäjoki Paulus Arajuuri 15/06/ Lech Thomas Lam 18/12/ Nottm Forest * Janne Saksela 14/03/ RoPS Sauli Väisänen 05/06/ AIK Albin Granlund 01/09/ Mariehamn Midfielders - Kasper Hämäläinen 08/08/ Legia Roman Eremenko 19/03/ CSKA Moskva FT * Perparim Hetemaj 12/12/ Chievo Joni Kauko 12/07/ Randers Sakari Mattila 14/07/ SønderjyskE Rasmus Schüller 18/06/ Häcken Alexander Ring 09/04/ Kaiserslautern Robin Lod 17/04/ Panathinaikos Forwards - Teemu Pukki 29/03/ Brøndby Eero Markkanen 03/07/ AIK Coach - Hans Backe 14/02/

5 Head coach Heimir Hallgrímsson Date of birth: 10 June 1967 Nationality: Icelandic Playing career: ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar (twice), Íþróttafélagið Höttur, KF Smástund Coaching career: Íþróttafélagið Höttur (women), ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar (women, twice), ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar (twice), Iceland (assistant), Iceland (joint coach), Iceland Spent the majority of his playing career with ÍBV, who he represented between 1986 and 1992 and again from 1994 to 1996; he spent 1993 playing for Höttur, also managing their women's team. Hallgrímsson who combined his playing career with his part-time duties as a dentist moved to Smástund in 1996 and continued to represent the club following their merger the following year with Framherjar, from his home town of Vestmannaeyjar. Started coaching ÍBV's women's side in 1999 and was appointed assistant coach of the men's team three years later. Returned to the women's selection in 2003, staying for two years; took over as head coach of ÍBV's men's squad in Stayed in that role until 2011; that October, following Lars Lagerbäck's appointment as Iceland coach, Hallgrímsson was named as his assistant. Promoted to the joint coaching role following the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, when Iceland lost in the play-offs to Croatia. UEFA EURO 2016 was to be a competition to remember for Iceland, however, as they qualified for a first major finals from a section including the Czech Republic, Turkey and the Netherlands. Even better was to follow in France, Iceland remaining unbeaten to reach the knockout stages and then famously getting the better of England in the last 16 before a 5-2 defeat by the hosts in the last 16. Hallgrímsson took sole charge after the tournament. Hans Backe Date of birth: 14 February 1952 Nationality: Swedish Playing career: AIK Solna, IF Brommapojkarna, Spånga IS Coaching career: Bro IK, Djurgårdens IF, Molde FK, Hammarby IF, Östers IF, AIK Solna, Stabæk Fotball, Aalborg BK, FC Salzburg, FC København, Panathinaikos FC, Notts County FC, New York RB, Finland A lower-league player in his native Sweden, Backe cut his teeth as a coach with Djurgården, with whom he won a second-flight title in He later reached the Swedish Cup final as coach of Östers (in 1991) and AIK (in 1995) before finding more tangible success in Denmark. Steered AaB to domestic title in his first season in Denmark (1998/99), as well as to successive cup finals. After a spell in Austria, took command at FCK, winning two/three league titles and his first Danish Cup between 2001 and Then lasted just four games as Panathinaikos coach in Worked as Sven-Göran Eriksson's assistant at Manchester City from , then joined the coach and fellow Swede Tord Grip when both moved on to take charge of Mexico. Went solo again as coach of Notts County, but lasted a matter of weeks due to a disagreement over unpaid wages. Enjoyed a successful spell as New York RB coach a section of the club's fans dubbed themselves the Hans Backe Viking Army in his honour. Won the Eastern Conference in 2010, but left in November 2012, and was working as a TV pundit back in Sweden when he was confirmed as Finland's new boss in August

6 Match officials Referee Assistant referees Fourth official FIFA Match Commissioner Referee observer Svein Oddvar Moen (NOR) Kim Thomas Haglund (NOR), Frank Andås (NOR) Dag Vidar Hafsås (NOR) Alan McRae (SCO) Herbert Fandel (GER) Referee Name Date of birth UEFA matches Svein Oddvar Moen 22/01/ FIFA Wold Cup matches involving teams from the two countries involved in this match No such matches refereed Other matches involving teams from either of the two countries involved in this match No such matches refereed 6

7 Competition facts The Week of Football concept enables fans around the world to enjoy the very best action from the European Qualifiers which will determine UEFA's representatives at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup comprises nine groups of six teams, with matches played on a home-andaway basis. Qualifying takes place under the 'Week of Football' concept, introduced ahead of the UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying campaign, in which games are spread out from Thursday to Tuesday, shining the spotlight on more teams on the road to the finals in Russia. Moreover, thanks to the Week of Football, at least 43% of matches will be played on weekends, giving fans a better chance to follow the action on television, in the stadiums and on UEFA.com. Kick-off times will be set mainly at 18:00CET and 20:45CET on Saturdays and Sundays and at 20:45CET for Thursdays, Fridays, Mondays and Tuesdays. In double-header matchweeks, sides will play on Thursday/Sunday, Friday/Monday or Saturday/Tuesday. Each day of the Week of Football will feature eight to ten games. The nine group winners will qualify directly for the final tournament. The eight best runners-up will contest play-offs to decide the last four qualifiers for the finals. The 13 qualifiers then join hosts Russia in the finals to make it 14 UEFA member associations represented. How qualification works The other confederations have the following qualifying berths: Africa: 5 Asia: 4.5 North and Central America and Caribbean: 3.5 Oceania: 0.5 South America: 4.5 7

8 Match-by-match lineups Iceland FIFA World Cup - Qualifying round Group I Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts Iceland Kosovo Turkey Croatia Finland Ukraine Matchday 1 (05/09/2016) Ukraine 1-1 Iceland Goals: 0-1 Finnbogason 6, 1-1 Yarmolenko 41 Iceland: Halldórsson, B. Sævarsson, R. Sigurdsson, Gudmundsson (84 Hallfredsson), B. Bjarnason (75 Traustason), G. Sigurdsson, Finnbogason, Árnason, Bödvarsson, A. Gunnarsson, A. Skúlason (42 H. Magnússon) Matchday 2 (06/10/2016) Iceland-Finland Matchday 3 (09/10/2016) Iceland-Turkey Matchday 4 (12/11/2016) Croatia-Iceland Matchday 5 (24/03/2017) Kosovo-Iceland Matchday 6 (11/06/2017) Iceland-Croatia Matchday 7 (02/09/2017) Finland-Iceland Matchday 8 (05/09/2017) Iceland-Ukraine Matchday 9 (06/10/2017) Turkey-Iceland Matchday 10 (09/10/2017) Iceland-Kosovo Finland FIFA World Cup - Qualifying round Matchday 1 (05/09/2016) Finland 1-1 Kosovo Goals: 1-0 Arajuuri 18, 1-1 V. Berisha 60 (P) Finland: Hradecky, Arajuuri, Moisander, Eremenko, Lod (88 Schüller), Pukki (73 Hämäläinen), Lam (65 Ring), Halsti, Uronen, Pohjanpalo, Raitala Matchday 2 (06/10/2016) Iceland-Finland Matchday 3 (09/10/2016) Finland-Croatia 8

9 Matchday 4 (12/11/2016) Ukraine-Finland Matchday 5 (24/03/2017) Turkey-Finland Matchday 6 (11/06/2017) Finland-Ukraine Matchday 7 (02/09/2017) Finland-Iceland Matchday 8 (05/09/2017) Kosovo-Finland Matchday 9 (06/10/2017) Croatia-Finland Matchday 10 (09/10/2017) Finland-Turkey 9

10 Legend Competitions Club competitions UCL: UEFA Champions League ECCC: European Champion Clubs' Cup UEL: UEFA Europa League UCUP: UEFA Cup UCWC: UEFA Cup Winners' Cup SCUP: UEFA Super Cup UIC: UEFA Intertoto Cup ICF: Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Other abbreviations National team competitions EURO: UEFA European Football Championship WC: FIFA World Cup CONFCUP: FIFA Confederations Cup FRIE: Friendly internationals U21FRIE: Under-21 friendly internationals U21: UEFA European Under-21 Championship U17: UEFA Under-17 Championship U16: UEFA European Under-16 Championship U19: UEFA Under-19 Championship U18: UEFA European Under-18 Championship WWC: FIFA Women's World Cup WEURO: UEFA European Women's Championship (aet): After extra time pens: Penalties No.: Number og: Own goal ag: Match decided on away goals P: Penalty agg: Aggregate Pld: Matches played AP: Appearances Pos.: Position Comp.: Competition Pts: Points D: Drawn R: Sent off (straight red card) DoB: Date of birth Res.: Result ET: Extra Time sg: Match decided by silver goal GA: Goals against t: Match decided by toss of a coin GF: Goals for W: Won gg: Match decided by golden goal Y: Booked L: Lost Y/R: Sent off (two yellow cards) Nat.: Nationality N/A: Not applicable Statistics -: Denotes player substituted +: Denotes player introduced *: Denotes player sent off +/-: Denotes player introduced and substituted Squad list D: Disciplinary *: Misses next match if booked S: Suspended Overall: Total appearances in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship final tournament only Disclaimer: Although UEFA has taken all reasonable care that the information contained within this document is accurate at the time of publication, no representation or guarantee (including liability towards third parties), expressed or implied, is made as to its accuracy, reliability or completeness. Therefore, UEFA assumes no liability for the use or interpretation of information contained herein. More information can be found in the competition regulations available on UEFA.com. 10