Åge Hareide

Åge Hareide

Hareide as the head coach for Malmö in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Åge Fridtjof Hareide
Date of birth	23 September 1953
Place of birth	Hareid, Norway
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current team	Denmark (coach)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1970–1975	Hødd	37	(2)
1976–1981	Molde	93	(21)
1981–1982	Manchester City	24	(0)
1982–1984	Norwich City	40	(2)
1984–1987	Molde	72	(10)
Total		266	(35)
National team
1976–1986	Norway	50	(5)
Teams managed
1985–1991	Molde
1993–1997	Molde
1998–1999	Helsingborgs IF
2000–2002	Brøndby
2003	Rosenborg
2003–2008	Norway
2009	Örgryte IS
2009–2012	Viking
2012	Helsingborgs IF (caretaker)
2014–2015	Malmö FF
2016–	Denmark
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Åge Fridtjof Hareide (born 23 September 1953 in Hareid) is a Norwegian football manager currently managing Danish National football team. In his playing career, he played for Hødd and Molde in Norway as well as Manchester City and Norwich City in England. Hareide was capped 50 times playing for Norway.

As a coach, Hareide has won league titles in all of the Scandinavian countries,^[1] In Sweden with Helsingborgs IF in 1999 and with Malmö FF in 2014, in Denmark with Brøndby in 2001–02 and in his native Norway with Rosenborg in 2003. Hareide was in charge of the Norway national team from 2003 to 2008.

Playing career

During his playing career, Hareide played for Hødd, Molde, Manchester City and Norwich City.^[2]

He was also an active player for the Norwegian national team from 1976 through 1986, scoring five goals in 50 matches.^[3]

Coaching career

As a coach Hareide has won three European countries' national league championships, namely that of Denmark, Sweden and his native Norway, making him the only coach to have won the league in all three Scandinavian countries. Other coaches who have won league titles in three different countries include fellow Scandinavians Trond Sollied and Sven-Göran Eriksson, while Ernst Happel, Giovanni Trapattoni and José Mourinho have won championships in four different countries.

Early managerial career

In the mid-1990s, Norwegian millionaires Kjell Inge Røkke and Bjørn Rune Gjelsten were reportedly interested in bringing Hareide back to Manchester City as manager if their bid to take over the club was successful, but the takeover bid failed and Hareide never returned to the club. When the pair tried to take over Leeds United around the same time, it was once again reported that Hareide would be installed as manager if the takeover bid succeeded, but this bid too failed and Hareide was never put in charge at Elland Road. However, the pair finally succeeded in a takeover bid for fellow English Premier League club Wimbledon in June 1997, and Hareide appeared all set to become the new manager of the club in a move that would have ousted the incumbent Joe Kinnear. But this never happened either.^[4]

Norway

Hareide was employed as the coach of the Norwegian national football team at the end of 2003, replacing Nils Johan Semb, after one season as coach of Rosenborg BK. On 8 December 2008, after having failed to take Norway to any international tournaments, and having had a bad start to the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, Hareide resigned from his position as national team coach of Norway. On 9 December 2008 Hareide announced that he was stepping down as coach of the Norwegian national team.^[5]

Viking

On 10 June 2009 it was announced that he will be coaching Örgryte IS. On 1 December 2009 the former Norway national team head coach left the Swedish club to join Viking FK, from Stavanger to replace Uwe Rösler.^[6] Following Egil Østenstad resignation as director of football in Viking, Viking announced in September 2011 that Hareide would be manager of Viking,^[7] and that Josep Clotet Ruiz would be hired as coach from the 2012-season onwards,^[8] similar to the organization English clubs and Molde have, with Ole Gunnar Solskjær as manager and Mark Dempsey as coach.^[9] Viking finished 9th in 2010, Hareide's first season, and 11th in 2011.^[10] With the team positioned on 10th place on 9 June 2012, Hareide was released by Viking FK because of the bad results.^[11]

Second spell at Helsingborg

Following Conny Karlsson's resignation in Helsingborgs IF, the club hired Hareide, the last coach who won Allsvenskan with Helsingborgs IF, except Karlsson, as head coach until the end of the 2012 season.^[12]

Malmö FF

Hareide was brought out of retirement from his managerial career by being appointed as the new manager of the reigning Swedish champions Malmö FF on 9 January 2014.^[13] He had immediate success at the club as he led the team to defend their Allsvenskan title and qualify for the group stage of the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League in his first season.^[14][15] For this successful season Hareide was awarded Allsvenskan manager of the year.^[16] He was also nominated for coach of the year at Svenska idrottsgalan.^[17]

Denmark

On 10 December 2015 Hareide was announced as the new manager of the Danish national football team replacing Morten Olsen, who had stepped down following the UEFA Euro 2016 qualification. Hareide would begin his new job on 1 March 2016.^[18]

Media career

After resigning as the Norwegian national team's coach Hareide began working as an expert Norwegian Premier League commentator for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.^[19]

Statistics

Playing career

Club performance[20]			League
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals
Norway			League
1970	Hødd	First Division	1	0
1971			16	1
1972			20	1
1973		Second Division	n/a
1974			n/a
1975			n/a
1975	Molde	First Division	9	3
1976			22	9
1977			21	7
1978			19	2
1979		Second Division	n/a
1980		First Division	22	0
1981		Second Division	n/a
England			League
1981–82	Manchester City	First Division	16	0
1982–83			8	0
1982–83	Norwich City	First Division	12	0
1983–84			28	2
Norway			League
1984	Molde	First Division	17	3
1985			22	3
1986			18	3
1987			15	1
Total	Norway		202	33
	England		64	2
Career total			266	35

Managerial career

As of 15 November 2016

Team	From	To	Record
			G^1	W	D	L	Win %
Molde FK^2	1986 1993	1991 1997	239	107	58	74	44.77
Helsingborgs IF	1998	1999	76	43	17	16	56.58
Brøndby IF^2	1 January 2000	15 April 2002	93	48	23	22	51.61
Rosenborg BK	1 January 2003	27 November 2003	43	32	6	5	74.42
Norway	1 January 2004	8 December 2008	58	24	18	16	41.38
Örgryte IS	10 June 2009	1 December 2009	18	6	5	7	33.33
Viking FK	1 December 2009	9 June 2012	81	31	23	27	38.27
Helsingborgs IF	14 June 2012	6 December 2012	31	14	7	10	45.16
Malmö FF	9 January 2014	9 December 2015	95	49	20	26	51.58
Denmark	1 March 2016		10	5	2	3	50.00
Total			744	359	179	206	48.25

¹ Only competitive matches are counted.
² For these earlier statistics, only league matches are collected.

Honours

Manager

Molde FK

• Norwegian Football Cup: 1994

Helsingborgs IF

• Allsvenskan: 1999
• Svenska Cupen: 1997–98

Brøndby IF

• Danish Superliga: 2001–02

Rosenborg BK

• Tippeligaen: 2003
• Norwegian Football Cup: 2003

Malmö FF

• Allsvenskan: 2014
• Svenska Supercupen: 2014

Individual

• Allsvenskan manager of the year: 2014

References

1. Skuseth, Karianne Nelly (12 April 2012). "Dette mener norske trenere om sparkingen". tv2.no (in Norwegian). TV 2 (Norway). Retrieved 10 June 2012. Åge Hareide, som er blitt seriemester i samtlige skandinaviske land..
2. Her er Hareides Karriere
3. Viking er en Toppklubb
4. Nixon, Alan (13 June 1997). "Doubts over the future of Kinnear". The Independent. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
5. "Football: Norway coach Hareide steps down". Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The Norway Post. 9 December 2008. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
6. Hareide ny Viking-Trener
7. "Hareide blir Viking-manager". tv2.no (in Norwegian). TV 2. 9 September 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
8. "Spanjol blir ny Viking-trener". vg.no (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. 20 September 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
9. "Spillerne liker ny trenermodell". aftenbladet.no (in Norwegian). Stavanger Aftenblad. 9 September 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
10. Veland, Bernhard (9 June 2012). "Åge Hareide fikk sparken etter dårlige resultater". aftenbladet.no (in Norwegian). Stavanger Aftenblad. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
11. Haugen, Eivind A. (9 June 2012). "- Jeg har ingenting å klage på". dagbladet.no (in Norwegian). Dagbladet. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
12. "Coony slutar och Åge Hareide tar över för hösten" (in Swedish). hif.se. 14 June 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
13. "Ny sportslig ledning i MFF". mff.se (in Swedish). Malmö FF. 9 January 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
14. "Malmö FF är svenska mästare 2014" [Malmö FF are Swedish Champions 2014]. mff.se (in Swedish). Malmö FF. 5 October 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
15. "Malmö FF är inne i Champions League" [Malmö FF into the Champions League]. mff.se (in Swedish). Malmö FF. 28 August 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
16. "Här är vinnarna i Allsvenskans stora pris". allsvenskan.se (in Swedish). Allsvenskan. 6 November 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
17. "Här är de nominerade till Idrottsgalan". sverigesradio.se (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 12 November 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
18. "Hareide som ny landstræner: Vi skal til VM i 2018". DBU Kommunikation (in Danish). Dansk Boldspil-Union. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
19. "Football: New career for Hareide". Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The Norway Post. 22 January 2009. Retrieved 22 January 2009.
20. Åge Hareide at National-Football-Teams.com

External links

• Malmö FF profile (Swedish)