Cecilía Rán Rúnarsdóttir
Personal information
Full name Cecilía Rán Rúnarsdóttir
Date of birth (2003-07-26) 26 July 2003
Place of birth Iceland
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Bayern Munich
Number 44
Youth career
200?–2010 Þróttur Reykjavík
2010–2018 Afturelding
2018–2020 Fylkir
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2018 Afturelding/Fram 18 (0)
2018–2020 Fylkir 30 (0)
2021 KIF Örebro 4 (0)
2021–2022 Everton 0 (0)
2021 → KIF Örebro (loan) 3 (0)
2022 → Bayern Munich (loan) 1 (0)
2022 → Bayern Munich II (loan) 1 (0)
2022– Bayern Munich 0 (0)
International career‡
2018 Iceland U-16 9 (0)
2018–2019 Iceland U-17 12 (0)
2019 Iceland U-19 3 (0)
2020– Iceland 5 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 April 2021
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 February 2022

Cecilía Rán Rúnarsdóttir (born 26 July 2003) is an Icelandic professional footballer for who plays as a goalkeeper for Bayern Munich of the German Frauen-Bundesliga and the Icelandic national football team.

Early life

Cecilía started playing football around the age of 6 with Afturelding. At the age of 10, she started playing as a goalkeeper.[1]

Club career

Cecilía started her senior career with Afturelding/Fram, a joint team off Afturelding and Knattspyrnufélagið Fram, in 2017 in the 2. deild kvenna where she helped the team finish first.[2] In 2018, she played 13 matches in the second-tier Inkasso league and was named the league's Best Young Player by opposing coaches and team captains.[3] After the season, in October 2018, she signed with Fylkir which had won promotion from the Inkasso league to the top-tier Úrvalsdeild kvenna.[4] She had a great start with Fylkir in the beginning of the season,[5][6] including an outstanding performance when Fylkir unexpectedly knocked out the reigning Cup holders, Breiðablik, in the Icelandic Cup.[7] After the season she was named the best Young Player of the Year.[8]

In March 2021, Cecilía signed with KIF Örebro for the 2021 season.[9]

In August 2021, Cecilía signed a three-year contract with English club Everton and was immediately loaned back to KIF Örebro for the remainder of the 2021 Damallsvenskan season.[10]

In January 2022, Cecilía joined German club FC Bayern Munich on loan until 30 June 2022.[11] In July 2022, Bayern Munich announced that Cecilía had signed a 4-year contract with the club.[12]

International career

In August 2019, Cecilía was selected to the Icelandic national team for the first time by head coach Jón Þór Hauksson[13] ahead of its UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying matches.[14] On 4 March 2020, she started her first match in a 1–0 victory against Northern Ireland,[15] becoming the youngest ever goalkeeper for Iceland and breaking Þóra Björg Helgadóttir's record by 148 days.[16]

Honours

Afturelding/Fram

Fylkir

  • Reykjavik Women Cup: 2020
  • Icelandic League Cup B: 2019

Bayern Munich

Iceland

Individual

References

  1. ↑ Kristjana Arnarsdóttir (29 March 2020). "Verður að vera hógvær og góð persóna". RÚV (in Icelandic). Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  2. ↑ Karl Emil Gunnarsson (10 August 2019). "Sé maður nógu góður er maður nógu gamall til að vera valinn". Fréttablaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  3. ↑ "Lið ársins og bestu leikmenn í Inkasso-deild kvenna 2018". Fótbolti.net (in Icelandic). 28 September 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  4. ↑ "Cecilía Rán til Fylkis". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 18 October 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  5. ↑ Ástrós Ýr Eggertsdóttir (4 June 2019). "Cecilía byrjar Pepsi Max deildina af krafti: Langar að sýna að ég á heima þarna". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  6. ↑ Sæbjörn Þór Þórbergsson Steinke (20 June 2019). "Myndband: Hjörvar ræðir við Cecilíu Rán og Steina Þuru". Fótbolti.net (in Icelandic). Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  7. ↑ Mist Rúnarsdóttir (1 June 2019). "Skýrslan". Fótbolti.net (in Icelandic). Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  8. ↑ Anton Ingi Leifsson (5 November 2020). "Sveindís best, Cecilía efnilegust og Þorsteinn besti þjálfarinn". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  9. ↑ Guðmundur Aðalsteinn Ásgeirsson (19 March 2021). "Örebro staðfestir komu Cecilíu til félagsins". Fótbolti.net (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  10. ↑ "Everton sign Ran Runarsdottir for 2022" – via www.bbc.com.
  11. ↑ "Rúnarsdóttir Joins Bayern Munich On Loan". www.evertonfc.com.
  12. ↑ Runólfur Trausti Þórhallsson (5 July 2022). "Skrifaði undir nýjan samning með vinstri". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 5 July 2022.
  13. ↑ "Sextán ára nýliði í landsliðshópnum". Morgunblaðið. 8 August 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  14. ↑ Ingvi Þór Sæmundsson (9 August 2019). "Á endanum ekki hræddur við að velja Cecilíu". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  15. ↑ Sindri Sverrisson (4 March 2020). ""Æðisleg tilfinning" - Nýliðinn hélt hreinu en kveður á morgun". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  16. ↑ Óskar Ófeigur Jónsson (4 March 2020). "Cecilía bætir met Þóru í dag". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  17. ↑ Mehta, Kalika; Ford, Matt (28 May 2023). "Women's Bundesliga: Bayern Munich's title reveals problems". Deutsche Welle (dw.com). Retrieved 11 June 2023.


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