Tómas Bent Magnússon
Icelandic footballer (born 2002)
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Tómas Bent Magnússon (born 14 August 2002) is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays for Scottish Premiership side Heart of Midlothian, as a midfielder. He previously played for Icelandic sides ÍBV and Valur and was a youth player at Fylkir.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 14 August 2002 | ||
| Place of birth | Iceland | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Heart of Midlothian | ||
| Number | 22 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2011 | Fylkir | ||
| 2012–2018 | ÍBV | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019–2024 | ÍBV | 81 | (9) |
| 2019 | → KFS (loan) | 9 | (2) |
| 2022 | → KFS (loan) | 3 | (2) |
| 2025 | Valur | 10 | (2) |
| 2025– | Heart of Midlothian | 27 | (3) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20 March 2026 | |||
Early life
Tómas was born on 14 August 2002 in Iceland. The cousin of Icelandic footballer Guðjón Ernir Hrafnkelsson, he is a native of the Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland.[2]
Career
As a youth player, Tómas joined the youth academy of Fylkir. In 2012, he joined the youth academy of ÍBV and was promoted to the club's senior team in 2019, where he made eighty-one league appearances and scored nine goals and helped them achieve promotion from the second tier to the top flight. The same year, he was sent on loan to KFS, where he made nine league appearances and scored two goals.
Following his stint there, he signed for Valur ahead of the 2025 season, where he made ten league appearances and scored two goals.[3] Icelandic newspaper Morgunblaðið wrote in 2025 that he "played a key role for Valur" while playing for the club.[4]
During the summer of 2025, he signed for Scottish side Heart of Midlothian.[5][6] On 10th February 2026, he scored the winning goal in a 1-0 derby victory over Hearts' city rivals Hibernian.