Career
Sara Björk is part of Iceland"s national team and represented her country at the 2009 and 2013 editions of the Union of European Football Associations Women"s Championship. Sara Björk joined local team Haukar at the age of six and remained until she was 18. After three subsequent seasons with Breiðablik, she left Iceland in 2011, to sign a three year professional contract with Swedish club LdB Football Club Malmö.
In August 2013 she announced the extension of her Malmö contract for another two and a half seasons via Twitter.
Sara Björk was included in Iceland"s senior national squad in August 2007, aged 16. She had recovered from an anterior cruciate ligament injury after having to delay surgery because she was too young and her bones were not yet fused.
Still a month short of her 17th birthday, she made her national team debut in a Union of European Football Associations Women"s Euro 2009 qualifying match versus Slovenia in Dravograd. Sara Björk substituted in for Katrín Ómarsdóttir on 87 minutes.
She played in all three group matches as Iceland were eliminated in the first round.
National team coach Siggi Eyjólfsson selected Sara Björk in the Iceland squad for Union of European Football Associations Women"s Euro 2013, where she played in all four matches including the 4–0 quarter-final defeat to hosts Sweden. With Margrét Lára Viðarsdóttir on maternity leave, incoming national coach Freyr Alexandersson appointed Sara Björk as Iceland"s new team captain in 2014. In November 2012 Sara Björk was in a relationship with male football player Hákon Atli Hallfreðsson, who was playing for Fachhochschule .
