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Also known as Åge Fridtjof Hareide

Norwegian association football player and manager (1953–2025)

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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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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
date of burial or cremation
2026-01-08
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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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