Kim Olafsson
Personal information
Full name Kim Olafsson Gunnlaugsson[1]
Date of birth (1998-08-27) 27 August 1998[2]
Place of birth Luxembourg
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[3]
Position(s) Forward[3]
Team information
Current team
 Munsbach
Number 14
Youth career
2014–2015 Frankfurt
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2019 1. FFC Frankfurt II 27 (1)
2020-2021 Frankfurt - (-)
2021–2022 Elversberg 2 (0)
2022– Munsbach 0 (0)
International career‡
2015 Iceland U17 3 (0)
2015–2016 Iceland U19 4 (0)
2014– Luxembourg 5 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 June 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 24 June 2022[4]

Kim Olafsson Gunnlaugsson (born 27 August 1998) is a Luxembourgish footballer who plays as a forward for Munsbach and the Luxembourg women's national team.[2]

Early life

Olafsson was born in Luxembourg to an Icelandic father and a Luxembourgish mother. Kim moved with only 15 years to Frankfurt, Germany to pursue her football career. After two successful years she unfortunately got a knee injury. 2017 first ACL tear, 2018 and 2019 inside meniscus tear(all left Knee). Kim is still working on her comeback. [5][6]

Club career

Olafsson has played for FFC Frankfurt II 2. Bundesliga in Germany.[7]

International career

Olafsson made her senior debut for Luxembourg on 29 October 2014 as a 79th-minute substitution in a 1–0 friendly home win over Lithuania.[4] She scored her first international goal on 11 December 2014 in a 2–3 friendly away loss to Cyprus.[4] After these two friendly appearances for Luxembourg, she agreed to officially play for Iceland at youth levels. She represented Iceland at the 2015 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship and two UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualifications (2016 and 2017).[7] On 11 April 2021, she resumed her senior international career with Luxembourg, appearing in a 2–1 friendly away win over Liechtenstein.[4]

International goals

#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.11 December 2014Makario Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus Cyprus2–32–3Friendly

References

  1. ↑ "Kim Olafsson Gunnlaugsson". Football Association of Iceland. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Cadre". Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Football (in French). Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  3. 1 2 Kim Olafsson – UEFA competition record (archive)
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Kim Olafsson". Der luxemburgische Fussball (in German). Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  5. ↑ Grellier, Nicolas (9 April 2021). "Huit ans après, Kim Olafsson revient en sélection". L'essentiel (in French). Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  6. ↑ Tómas Þór Þórðarson (19 June 2015). "Gæti reynst falinn fjarsjóður". Vísir (in Icelandic). Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  7. 1 2 Kim Olafsson at Soccerway. Retrieved 10 July 2021.


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