This report describes patterns of professional sport in Iceland that have in the past decades displayed increasing exchanges of players with other countries. Soccer and handball are given prominence because of their great popularity in the country; chess, an activity defined as a sport in some contexts, is featured as well because of the world successes of Icelandic players and the Icelandic venue for the epochal Fisher-Spassky match in 1972. `International' has partially been subsumed by the use of `globalization' in the past 10 years, and the participation of Iceland in the new, volatile, but highly variable arrangements of global exchange of sport labour talent is sketched.
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