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Ægir Þór Steinarsson (* 10). May 1991 in Reykjavík is an Icelandic basketball player. After starting his career in the Icelandic league Úrvalsdeild karla and studying for two years in the United States, Ægir Steinarsson has been playing abroad as a professional since 2013. After two years in Sweden, he played again briefly in his home country before going to the second Spanish league LEB Oro, where he reached the runner-up of this class with San Pablo Burgos in 2017 and promotion to the highest class. Ægir Steinarsson, meanwhile, switched to previous league rival AB TAU Castelló for the following season 2017/18. With the Icelandic national basketball team, he took part in the only two European Championship finals in 2015 and 2017, for which the Icelanders could qualify until 2017 inclusive.

Career
Ægir Steinarsson began his career at Fjölnir in his hometown, with which he achieved an immediate rise to the highest level of Úrvalsdeild karla in 2009. Subsequently, Ægir Steinarsson was twice awarded as the best young player of the Icelandic league, but returning Fjölnir just missed the entry into the play-offs of the best eight teams for the championship. In 2011, Ægir Steinarsson went to the basketball motherland United States to study at Newberry College, a private, evangelical Lutheran college in Newberry, South Carolina. However, their college team Wolves plays only in the South Atlantic Conference of NCAA Division II, with generally only teams of NCAA Division I being considered a qualifying training facility for athletes pursuing a professional career. After two years, Ægir Steinarsson left the university again and then began a professional career as a basketball player.

For the 2013/14 season, Ægir Steinarsson moved to the basket league to Swedish vice-champion Dragons from Sundsvall, where his experienced compatriots Hlynur Bæringsson and Jakob Sigurðarson already played and where Ægir Steinarsson could go a bit in the apprenticeship as a professional rookie with Jakob Sigurðarson. However, the Sundsvall Dragons could not continue with Ægir Steinarsson past successes, as the Södertälje Kings dominated the championship and on the way to their third consecutive championship 2015 the Dragons in the play-off semi-final series out of the way. Afterwards, not only Jakob Sigurðarson left the team, but also Ægir Steinarsson, who initially returned to his hometown and played for champion Knattspyrnufélag (KR) in the 2015/16 season. However, he left the defending champion at the end of February 2016 as the best template provider in the league with just under seven assists per game.

Ægir Steinarsson moved from KR at the end of the 2015/16 season to the second Spanish league LEB Oro to CB Peñas from Huesca. The former first division and main round seventh