Valur Ingimundarson


Valur Snjólfur Ingimundarson is an Icelandic former basketball player and coach. He played for 20 seasons in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild and is its highest scoring player of all time.

Denmark

Valur was a player-coach for Odense BK from 1995 to 1998 and helped the club achieve promotion up two levels in two seasons and to the Danish top-tier league in 1997. He left Odense after the 1997-1998 season and to over as head coach for Tindastóll.

Icelandic national team

Valur is the second most capped player in the national team history, playing 164 games between 1980 and 1995.

Team of the 20th century

In 2001 Valur was voted to the Icelandic team of the 20th century in basketball as a player.

Personal life

Valur is the older brother of Sigurður Ingimundarson, the winningest coach in Icelandic basketball history, and the father of basketball player Valur Orri Valsson.