Known for criterion three applies directly. He held the national scoring record for roughly half a century and was the central figure of the ÍA side that dominated Icelandic football, and he is absent while eight players with fewer than 40 caps are present. Biggest achievements: Iceland's all-time top scorer with 17 goals in 33 caps, a record that stood until Eiður Guðjohnsen equalled it in 2006 and broke it in 2007; 6 Icelandic championships and 139 goals in 185 games for ÍA Akranes; later national-team coach.
One rank above: Aron Einar Gunnarsson at #5.
One rank below: Birkir Bjarnason at #7.
Iceland's editorial top five: Eiður Guðjohnsen · Ásgeir Sigurvinsson · Gylfi Sigurðsson · Hermann Hreiðarsson · Aron Einar Gunnarsson.