Vidar Orn Kjartansson is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as a striker for Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Vidar made his debut for Selfoss in 2006, aged 16. He joined Icelandic top division club iBV in 2009 but rejoined Selfoss after a short stint with iBV. He joined Icelandic club Fylkir in 2013 and after a very prolific goalscoring season in the Icelandic top flight, he joined Norwegian club Valerenga in December 2013. Vidar scored his first goal for Valerenga in a 3-1 home win over Bodo/Glimt on 6. April 2014. After his first year in Norway, Vidar ended up as the top scorer in the Norwegian top league with 25 goals scored in 29 games. On 22 January 2015, Vidar transferred to Chinese Super League side Jiangsu Guoxin-Sainty. Jiangsu Guoxin-Sainty signed him for 3.5 million euros. On 7 March 2015, he made his debut and scored his first goal for Jiangsu in the first league match of the 2015 season which Jiangsu Sainty lost to Shanghai SIPG 2-1. Vidar played a vital part in the asian FA cup. And was the top goalscorer in the cup with 4 goals wich helped Jiangsu to win their first trophy in history of the club. On 27 January 2016, he signed for Swedish club Malmo FF. On 30 August 2016 he transferred to the Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv.

In his international career, Vidar had played for Iceland U17 and Iceland U19. In 2014, he joined Icelandic national team, earning 8 appearances and 1 goal by January 2016.

CLUB

Jiangsu Sainty
Chinese Football Association Cup：2015

Malmo FF
Allsvenskan: 2016

Maccabi Tel Aviv
Toto Cup: 2017–18

INDIVIDUAL

Urvalsdeild Top Goalscorer:
2013

Norwegian Premier League top scorer:
2014

Israeli Premier League Top Goalscorer:
2016-17

ONE magazine player of the week:
January 2018