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Åge Hareide
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Norwegian association football player and manager (1953–2025)
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Åge Fridtjof Hareide (1953–2025) was a Norwegian association football player and coach. Born in Hareid, he played as a defender for clubs including IL Hødd, Molde FK, Manchester City F.C., and Norwich City F.C. His professional career spanned from 1970 to 1987. In addition to his work in football, he served as a statutory auditor.
Hareide was a citizen of Norway and spoke Norwegian. He died of natural causes in Molde Municipality on December 18, 2025. His burial took place on January 8, 2026.
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 50
- Total plays
- 129
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Lipid14: The Amber Lipid Force Field
· 2014 · cited 1,143x
- Progress in cancer survival, mortality, and incidence in seven high-income countries 1995–2014 (ICBP SURVMARK-2): a population-based study
· 2019 · cited 932x
- Effect of outer membrane vesicle vaccine against group B meningococcal disease in Norway
· 1991 · cited 517x
- The Natural History of Periodontal Disease in Man: Prevalence, Severity, and Extent of Gingival Recession
· 1992 · cited 353x
- Resuscitation from accidental hypothermia of 13·7°C with circulatory arrest
· 2000 · cited 332x
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Key facts
- 2003
- Rosenborg
- 2009
- Örgryte
- 2012
- Helsingborg (caretaker)
- 2022
- Malmö FF (caretaker)
- Full name
- Åge Fridtjof Hareide
- Date of birth
- ( 1953-09-23 ) 23 September 1953
- Place of birth
- Hareid Municipality , Norway
- Date of death
- 18 December 2025 (2025-12-18) (aged 72)
- Place of death
- Molde Municipality , Norway
- Position
- Defender
- Years
- Team
- 1970 1975
- Hødd
- 1975 1981
- Molde
- 1981 1982
- Manchester City
- 1982 1984
- Norwich City
- 1984 1987
- Molde
- 1976 1986
- Norway
- 1985 1991
- Molde
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Fridtjof
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Place of birth
- Hareid
- Place of death
- Molde Municipality
- Occupation
- statutory auditor
- Languages spoken
- Norwegian
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Norway men's national association football team
- Position played
- defender
- Country for sport
- Norway
- Image
- SHAKHTAR DONETSK VS. MALMÖ FF 4 - 0 (7).jpg
- Height
- 180
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- date of birth
- 1953-09-23
- Commons category
- Åge Hareide
- start of work period
- 1970-00-00
- birth name
- Åge Fridtjof Hareide
- name in native language
- Åge Hareide
- date of death
- 2025-12-18
- end of work period
- 1987-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of burial or cremation
- 2026-01-08
- place of burial
- Molde Cathedral
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Encyclopedic overview
Åge Fridtjof Hareide (23 September 1953 – 18 December 2025) was a Norwegian football player and coach. 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. In his coaching career he managed multiple clubs, as well as the national teams of Norway, Denmark, and Iceland.
As a coach, Hareide won league titles in all of the Scandinavian countries, 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. While at Malmö during his first time in charge at the club, he notably took the team to the modern-day UEFA Champions League group stages for the first two times in the club's history. He coached Denmark to a round of 16 finish at the 2018 FIFA World Cup before appointed coach of Iceland in 2023. Following his time with Iceland, he announced his retirement from coaching.
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