Víkingur Reykjavík have not lost a game in the Besta deild — Iceland's top flight — since August last year, and by the middle of June they had reportedly won eleven matches in a row across all competitions. Breiðablik arrive from somewhere else entirely. Their games have been goal-trading affairs in both directions: fourteen scored and thirteen conceded in just four league outings. The two meet at Kópavogsvöllur in the cup semi-final with a place in the final on the line — and on the other side of the draw, a lower-division club is already waiting. For both of these sides, silverware sits unusually within reach.
The market
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*(No market read was taken for a cup tie this far out, and it wouldn't be reliable at this stage anyway.)*
Víkingur come into this on one of the strongest runs the league has seen in a long while. Across their last five league games they scored seventeen and conceded just two, with three clean sheets — five-nil against FH, five-one against Valur. This is a side controlling matches at both ends, and the cup run rolled on with a two-one win at Akranes in which Óskar caught the eye.
Breiðablik are a different story. They came through the cup cleanly enough — three-nil past Ægir in the quarter-final, two-one against Þróttur — but the league form has been streaky. Six-three over KR, yes, but also a three-four defeat to Fram and a two-three loss to Valur. They score plenty at home and ship plenty too.
Neither side has a confirmed injury. The real variable is Víkingur's workload. They are reportedly due back at this same ground for a league game on 28 June, then home to KA on 2 July, then into Champions League qualifying against Győri on 7 July. That invites rotation — and the question is how hard the champions push for a single cup tie sitting inside a run like that.
RECENT FORM
(Ægir, Fram, KR, Valur, Þróttur, FH)
(KR, ÍA, Valur, Stjarnan, FH, ÍBV)
The tie comes down to Víkingur's defence against Breiðablik's attacking volume. The champions have shut games down almost completely in the league and rarely concede; Breiðablik, by contrast, drag every match into a shootout, whether it suits them or not. Höskuldur and company need to keep this open and quick, because in a tight, controlled game Víkingur win on experience and discipline.
This is where the schedule comes back in. If Víkingur's manager rests players with the 28 June league game and Europe in mind, gaps open up — and that is exactly the kind of goal-trading game that has defined Breiðablik's season. But if Víkingur put out their strongest side and keep the back line tight, the hosts will struggle to manufacture the chaos they thrive on. Gylfi, pulling the strings from midfield, is the man most likely to keep the game on the visitors' terms.
HEAD-TO-HEAD
THE PICK
The pick is Víkingur. The form is simply too emphatic to look past — eleven wins in a row, a defence that has conceded almost nothing, and a side that hasn't lost a league game in nearly a year. The over 2.5 and both-teams-to-score calls rest on Breiðablik's habit of creating at home and Víkingur scoring freely once they get going.
The risk runs two ways. If Víkingur go full strength and keep the back line as tight as it has been in the league, this could become a controlled one- or two-goal win in which Breiðablik never get on the board — and then both the goals line and the both-teams-to-score call fall. On the other side, the cup is a one-off, and if the champions rest key men for the European trip, Breiðablik, at home and in their open rhythm, can turn the tie around.
This is a domestic showpiece in the truest sense: Iceland's two most recent league champions, Víkingur from last year and Breiðablik from 2024, with a cup final place at stake. Gylfi Sigurðsson — the former Iceland international and longtime Premier League midfielder — now wears Víkingur's colours, and it was Gylfi who salvaged the point the last time these sides met. Kick-off is set for 19:15 Iceland time on 25 June, likely live on Stöð 2 Sport — though the date, time and broadcast are all unconfirmed.