Åge Fridtjof Hareide (born 23 September 1953) is a Norwegian

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and player, currently managing

Malmö FF Malmö Fotbollförening, commonly known as Malmö FF, Malmö, or MFF, is a professional football club and the most successful football club in Sweden in terms of trophies won. Formed in 1910 and affiliated with the Scania Football Association, ...

as the interim manager. In his playing career, he played for Hødd and

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in Norway as well as

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and

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in England. Hareide was

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50 times playing for

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. As a coach, Hareide has won league titles in all of the

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n countries, In Sweden with

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in 1999 and with

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

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group stages for the first two times in the club's history.

Playing career

During his playing career, Hareide played for Hødd,

and

. He was also an active player for the Norway national team from 1976 through 1986, scoring five goals in 50 matches.

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 three

n countries. Other coaches who have won league titles in three countries include fellow Scandinavians

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and

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, while

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and

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have won championships in four countries.

Early managerial career

In the mid-1990s, Norwegian millionaires

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and

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were reportedly interested in bringing Hareide back to

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

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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

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. However, the pair finally succeeded in a takeover bid for fellow English

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club

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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

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. But this never happened either.

Norway

Hareide was employed as the

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of the

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at the end of 2003, replacing Nils Johan Semb, after one season as coach of

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. On 8 December 2008, after having failed to take Norway to any international tournaments, and having had a bad start to the

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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 Norway national team.

Viking

On 10 June 2009 it was announced that he wouldbe coaching

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. On 1 December 2009 the former Norway national team head coach left the Swedish club to join

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, from

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to replace

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. Following

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resignation as

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in Viking, Viking announced in September 2011 that Hareide would be manager of Viking, and that

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would be hired as coach from the 2012-season onwards, similar to the organization English clubs and

have, with

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as manager and Mark Dempsey as coach. Viking finished 9th in

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, Hareide's first season, and 11th in

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. With the team positioned on 10th place on 9 June 2012, Hareide was released by Viking FK because of the bad results.

Second spell at Helsingborg

Following Conny Karlsson's resignation in

, the club hired Hareide, the last coach who won

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with Helsingborgs IF, except Karlsson, as head coach until the end of the 2012 season.

Malmö FF

Hareide was brought out of retirement from his managerial career by being appointed as the new manager of the reigning Swedish champions

on 9 January 2014. He had immediate success at the club as he led the team to defend their

title and qualify for the group stage of the

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in his first season. For this successful season Hareide was awarded Allsvenskan manager of the year. He was also nominated for coach of the year at

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Denmark

On 10 December 2015, Hareide was announced as the new manager of the

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replacing

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, who had stepped down following the

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. Hareide began his new job on 1 March 2016. In November 2017, he managed his Denmark team to qualification for the

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in Russia. This was achieved with a 5-1 aggregate

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win over

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. Hareide was the Danish coach at the 2018 FIFA World Cup. He managed Denmark to 2nd place in their group before they were eliminated in the round of 16 in a penalty shootout against

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. Hareide continued as manager of in the

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. Under his leadership Denmark qualified for the

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. It was revealed that

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would replace him as manager of the Danish team following the tournament. However, due to the

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the tournament was postponed, and Hareide's contract expired. When he left he had not lost for the last 34 games, and his last defeat was on 11 October 2016 against

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Rosenborg

In August 2020, he became the head coach of Rosenborg BK for a second tenure. In june 2021, Åge revealed his opposition to

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Malmö FF

In September 2022, Åge was announced as the new interim manager for Malmö FF.

Media career

He resigned as the Norway national team coach then worked as an expert

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commentator for the

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Statistics

Playing career

Managerial career

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

Honours

Manager

Molde FK *

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Helsingborgs IF *

: 1999 *

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: 1997–98 Brøndby IF *

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: 2001–02 Rosenborg BK *

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: 2003 *Norwegian Football Cup:

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Malmö FF *Allsvenskan: 2014 *

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Individual

*Allsvenskan Manager of the Year:

References

External links

Malmö FF profile
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