Fanndís Friðriksdóttir

Fanndís Friðriksdóttir (born 9 May 1990) is an Icelandic former women's footballer who played as a left winger. She spent the 2017–2018 season with Olympique de Marseille in the French Division 1 Féminine and has previously played in the Úrvalsdeild kvenna for Breiðablik and the Norwegian Toppserien for Kolbotn and Arna-Bjørnar. Fanndís has been a part of the Iceland's national team since 2009 and represented her country at the 2009, 2013 and 2017 editions of the UEFA Women's Championship.

Club career Born in Akureyri,

After eight seasons at the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild kvenna with Breiðablik, where she scored 50 goals in 107 league matches, Fanndís decided to join Norwegian Toppserien club Kolbotn, signing a year contract on 6 December 2012. Ahead of her second season in Norway, she moved from Kolbotn to Arna-Bjørnar in December 2013.

On 15 May 2014, Fanndís was released from her contract by Arna-Bjørnar after requesting a move back to Iceland to play for Breiðablik. As the request happened during Icelandic's last players transfer registration day, it was only confirmed on the following day (16 May 2014), that Fanndís was successfully registered as a Breiðablik player, her second spell at the club.

At the end of the 2017 season, after four seasons of her second spell at Breiðablik, she had a combined total (both spells) of 104 goals scored in 197 matches in all Icelandic domestic competitions, of which 97 goals were scored in 173 league matches.

In August 2017, she became the first Icelandic female player to join a French Division 1 Féminine club by signing a year contract to play for Olympique de Marseille.

On 27 June 2018, Fanndís signed with Úrvalsdeild kvenna club Valur. In September 2018, she was loaned to Adelaide United of the Australian W-League. She scored 2 goals in 11 matches for the club, witch finished 6th in the league, 1 point out of the playoffs.

On 12 Desember 2025, she announced her retirement from football.

International career Fanndís has represented Iceland since 2005, initially at the under 17 team, progressing to the under 19 and eventually arriving at the senior team in 2009, making her senior international debut on 9 March 2009 in a 2–0 defeat by Denmark at the 2009 Algarve Cup.

A few months later she was called up to be part of Iceland squad at the UEFA Women's Euro 2009, where she made two brief substitute appearances as Iceland were eliminated in the first round.

She played matches at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification, 2010 Algarve Cup, 2011 Algarve Cup and UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualification Her second goal came on 15 September 2012 at a UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualification 2–0 win over Northern Ireland. She started three out of the four matches Iceland played in the tournament, including the Quarterfinal 4–0 defeat by Sweden.