Alfons Sampsted
Sampsted with Twente in 2023
Personal information
Date of birth (1998-04-06) 6 April 1998 (age 25)
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
0000–2016 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 26 (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)
*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 Dutch club Twente.

Club career

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

Alfons is as of 15 November 2020 the highest capped player of the Icelandic U21 national team with 30 games.[2][8]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 8 June 2023 [9]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
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
Total 13 0 2 0 0 0 15 0
Career total 165 4 16 1 39 2 220 7

Honours

Bodø/Glimt

References

  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. "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. "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. ^ "Alfons sló leikjamet Hólmars". www.mbl.is (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  9. ^ "Alfons Sampsted". altomfotball.no (in Norwegian). TV 2. Retrieved 7 July 2021.

External links

FC Twente – current squad
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