Ágúst Þór Jóhannsson

Ágúst Þór Jóhannsson (born 19 February 1977) is an Icelandic team handball coach and a former player.

Ágúst Þór Jóhannsson
Personal information
Full name Ágúst Þór Jóhannsson
Born (1977-02-19) 19 February 1977
Iceland
Nationality Icelandic
Playing position Head coach
Club information
Current club Valur (W)
Iceland (W, assistant)
Teams managed
Years Team
1998
 Grótta/KR (W)
1998–1999
 Grótta/KR (M, assistant)
1999–2000
 Valur (W)
2000–2001
 Iceland (W)
2001–2002
 Valur (W, assistant)
2001–2002
 Valur (M, assistant)
2002–2005
 Grótta/KR (M)
2005–2008
 Valur (W)
2008–2009
 Grótta (M)
2009–2012
 Levanger (W)
2011–2016
 Iceland (W)
2013–2014
 SønderjyskE (W)
2014
 HK (M)
2014–2016
 Víkingur (M)
2016–2017
 KR (M)
2017–
 Valur (W)
2018–2021
 Faroe Islands (W)
2020–
 Iceland (W, assistant)

Coaching career

Club career

In 1998, Ágúst took over as head coach of the joint Grótta/KR women's team for the rest of the 1997-1998 season after Andrés Gunnlaugsson was fired.[1] After serving as an assistant coach to the Grótta/KR men's team for the 1998-1999 season, he was hired as the head coach of Valur women's team in May 1999.[2] Under his watch the team won the Icelandic Women's Handball Cup but was knocked out in the Final 8 in the national championship playoffs after losing to Fimmleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar.[3] He resigned from hist post after the season to take over as the head coach of the Iceland women's national handball team.[3] He returned to Valur in 2001 after one year with the national team to serve as an assistant coach to both the men's and women's teams.[4]

In February 2002, Ágúst was hired as the head coach of the joint Grótta/KR men's team.[5] He resigned at the end of the 2004-2005 season.[6]

He returned once again to Valur in April 2005 when he signed a three year contract to coach the women's team.[7] He guided the team to the 2008 national championship finals where it lost to Stjarnan.[8]

In 2008, Ágúst signed a three year contract to coach the Grótta men's team.[9] He left the team after the season, after guiding the club to victory in the 1. deild karla and promotion to Úrvalsdeild karla,[10] and signed with Levanger Håndballklubb of the Norwegian Eliteserien.[11] On 2 March 2012, Ágúst was fired from Levanger with three games left of the season and the team in 10th place.[12]

Ágúst was hired as the head coach of SønderjyskE Håndbold women's team in February 2013.[13] He resigned in February 2014 after the team had only won 2 of its 18 games.[14] Shortly later he was hired as an interim coach for HK men's team to finish out the season, replacing Samúel Ívar Árnason.[15][16] After the season he took over the reins of Víkingur men's team.[17]

He guided Víkingur to promotion to the Úrvalsdeild karla in his first season at the club. After a difficult 2015-2016 season, where the team was relegated back to 1. deild karla, Ágúst resigned from his post.[18] In May 2016, Ágúst was hired as the head coach of KR men's team.[19] He guided KR to promotion to the Úrvalsdeild but the team folded after the season as the board of Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur believed that it did not have the adequate facilities to field a team in the top-tier league.[20]

In May 2017, Ágúst returned once again to Valur as the head coach of the women's team.[20] On 9 March 2019, he led the team to the Icelandic Women's Handball Cup.[21] On 28 April 2019, he led Valur to the national championship.[22]

National team career

In March 2000, Ágúst was hired as the head coach of the Iceland women's national handball team.[23] He left the team at the conclusion of his contract in 2001.[24]

Ágúst was formerly the head coach for the Iceland women's national handball team, and led the team at the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship in Brazil.[25] He started training the Icelandic women national team in 2000–01 at only 25 years old.

In August 2018, Ágúst was hired as the head coach of the Faroe Islands women's national handball team.[26]

Titles

References
  1. "Andrési sagt upp hjá Gróttu/KR". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 20 January 1998. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  2. "Valsstúlkur fá góðan liðsstyrk". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 26 May 1999. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  3. "Ágúst næsti landsliðsþjálfari". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). 23 March 2000. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  4. "Hrafnhildur og Drífa". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). 23 April 2001. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  5. "Ágúst Jóhannsson þjálfar Gróttu/KR". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 15 February 2002. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  6. "Ágúst ekki áfram með Gróttu/KR". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). 6 March 2005. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  7. "Þjálfar kvennalið Vals næstu þrjú árin". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). 26 April 2005. p. 22. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  8. Kristján Jónsson (6 May 2008). "Vorum í vonlausri stöðu á tímabili". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  9. "Fólk". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 9 May 2008. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  10. "Grótta upp í úrvalsdeild". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 27 March 2009. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  11. Ívar Benediktsson (8 April 2009). "Var ekki hægt að segja nei". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). p. B1. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  12. Ívar Benediktsson (3 March 2012). "Óvænt og hvorki sáttur né sammála". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). p. 1. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  13. "Ágúst Jóhannsson ráðinn til SønderjyskE". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 22 February 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  14. Ívar Benediktsson (24 February 2014). "Ágúst Þór hættur hjá SönderjyskE". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  15. Guðmundur Marinó Ingvarsson (2 March 2014). "Samúel Ívar rekinn frá HK - Ágúst tekur við". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  16. "Ágúst Þór fyrst til HK og svo Víkings". RÚV (in Icelandic). 2 March 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  17. "Ágúst ráðinn þjálfari Víkings til 3 ára". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 2 March 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  18. Eiríkur Stefán Ásgeirsson (20 April 2016). "Ágúst hættur með Víking". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  19. "Ágúst Þór tekur við KR". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 10 May 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  20. Óskar Ófeigur Jónsson (26 May 2017). "Ágúst snýr aftur sem þjálfari kvennaliðs Vals". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  21. Valur Páll Eiríksson (9 March 2019). "Valskonur bikarmeistarar í sjöunda sinn". RÚV (in Icelandic). Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  22. Svava Kristín Gretarsdóttir (28 April 2019). "Ágúst: Stebbi er búinn að tala um það í allan vetur og ég held að hann hafi rétt fyrir sér". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  23. "Ágúst taki við kvennalandsliðinu". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 23 March 2000. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  24. "Ágúst hættir". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). 23 March 2001. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  25. "XX Women's World Championship 2011; Brasil – Team Roaster Iceland" (PDF). International Handball Federation. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  26. Anton Ingi Leifsson (17 August 2018). "Ágúst tekur við Færeyjum: "Þetta er gerlegt"". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 10 March 2019.
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