The summer of 2007 saw the football team play for the first time in the Icelandic top division, the Úrvalsdeild.
Rúrik signed for Charlton Athletic at the end of August 2005, but failed to make an appearance for Charlton's first team, having played for HK Kópavogur in his youth.
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He also played for RSC Anderlecht, the then champions of Belgium for a year, but did not settle so he returned to HK Kópavogur.
Pétursson scored the only and winning goal in the local derby against HK in the quarter-finals and scored the winning goal against Keflavík in the semi-finals.