Bjarte Andre Lunde Aarsheim (born 14 January 1975) is a Norwegian
football
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coach and former player. He is currently head coach of
Eliteserien
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club
Viking FK
Viking Fotballklubb, commonly known as Viking or Viking Stavanger internationally, is a Norwegian football club from the city of Stavanger. The club was founded in 1899. It is one of the most successful clubs in Norwegian football, having won 8 ...
.
Having spent most of his playing career at Viking, Lunde Aarsheim is the player with the eighth most appearances for the club throughout history. In a playing career that lasted from 1993 to 2012, he also played for
Start
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,
Randaberg
Randaberg is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Jæren, at the northern end of the Stavanger Peninsula. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Randaberg.
Randaberg ...
and
Hundvåg, having the role of
player-coach
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at the latter two. In 2001, he made three appearances for the
Norway national team. In addition to his coaching roles at Randaberg and Hundvåg, Lunde Aarsheim has also been a coach at
Sandnes Ulf
Sandnes Ulf is a Norwegian association football club from Sandnes, Rogaland, currently playing in the 1. divisjon, the second highest division in the Norwegian football league system. The club play their home matches at Øster Hus Arena. The clu ...
and
Brodd.
Club career
Viking
Lunde Aarsheim has spent the majority of his career at
Viking FK
Viking Fotballklubb, commonly known as Viking or Viking Stavanger internationally, is a Norwegian football club from the city of Stavanger. The club was founded in 1899. It is one of the most successful clubs in Norwegian football, having won 8 ...
, arriving from local club
Hundvåg as a youth. Making his debut for Viking in 1994, he stayed with the club until 2005, playing a total of 425 games in all competitions, including friendly matches.
A creative midfielder, Lunde Aarsheim was at his peak during the 2001 season, when he, as captain, led Viking to a league lead before suffering a serious ankle injury in a game against
SK Brann
Sportsklubben Brann (commonly known as Brann, and less often as SK Brann) is a Norwegian professional football club, founded 26 September 1908, from Bergen. Brann had been in the Eliteserien, Norway's Premier Division of Football, since 1987, bar ...
halfway through the season.
Although he made an extremely popular five-minute comeback in the
Norwegian cup final victory over rivals
Bryne FK
Bryne Fotballklubb () is a professional football club in Bryne, Norway, that competes in the 1. divisjon, the second tier of Norwegian football.
History
Bryne has played a total of 17 seasons in the top flight of Norwegian football since thei ...
later in the year, Lunde Aarsheim never really recovered from the injury, and his last seasons at Viking were plagued by further injuries. He only played 4 games in the 2002 season, and he was injured for parts of the 2003 season as well.
Start
He remained captain of Viking until the end of the 2004 season, but midway through the 2005 season he was released on a free transfer, joining league leaders
IK Start
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. Start finished the season in 2nd place.
Randaberg
In the summer of 2007 he surprisingly joined
Randaberg IL
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Football
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, a club playing in the
3. divisjon
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, the fourth tier of Norwegian football, together with
Øyvind Svenning
Øyvind Svenning (born 29 January 1980) is a Norwegian former footballer who played as a defender. He has played for Rosenborg, Moss and Viking in Eliteserien and GIF Sundsvall in Allsvenskan.
Career
Svenning made his Eliteserien debut for Rose ...
. The team earned promotion to the
2. divisjon
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There are 28 teams divided into two groups, and at the ...
in his first season at the club. In November 2008, Lunde Aarsheim and
Jørgen Tengesdal were announced as the new head coaches of Ranadaberg, with Lunde Aarsheim taking on the role of
player-coach
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. The team earned promotion to the
Norwegian First Division
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in the 2010 season, which was also Lunde Aarsheim's last season before he decided to retire and leave the club.
After the 2010 season, he returned to his youth club
Hundvåg to become a player developer.
In July 2011, he came out of retirement and returned to Randaberg in the Norwegian First Division. He played eight matches during the 2011 season.
International career
He made his
national team
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debut in a 3–2 win against
South Korea
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in January 2001, earning a total of three caps for Norway.
His last international match was an August 2001 friendly match against
Turkey
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.
Managerial career
Hundvåg
Ahead of the 2012 season, he again returned to Hundvåg, becoming the head coach of the club, and also playing two matches for the club in the
4. divisjon.
The team earned promotion to the
3. divisjon
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in his first season at the club.
Sandnes Ulf
On 6 December 2013, he was appointed assistant coach of
Tippeligaen
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club
Sandnes Ulf
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, signing a one-year contract and becoming a part of head coach
Asle Andersen
Asle Andersen (born 15 February 1972) is a Norwegian football manager and former player. He was the manager of Sandnes Ulf
Sandnes Ulf is a Norwegian association football club from Sandnes, Rogaland, currently playing in the 1. divisjon, the ...
's technical staff.
In July 2014, Andersen got sacked, and Lunde Aarsheim served as interim head coach for one match against
Molde FK
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. He resigned after the match.
Brodd
On 30 November 2014, Lunde Aarsheim was appointed head coach of
3. divisjon
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club
IL Brodd
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The club was founded on 25 April 1913 as ''BK Brodd''. It participated in competitions for the first time in 1915, and reached the inaugural League of Norway in 1937–38. In 1940 ...
. He stayed at Brodd for one season.
Viking
In Januar 2016, he was hired as a player developer for his former club
Viking FK
Viking Fotballklubb, commonly known as Viking or Viking Stavanger internationally, is a Norwegian football club from the city of Stavanger. The club was founded in 1899. It is one of the most successful clubs in Norwegian football, having won 8 ...
.
Ten months later, in November 2016, he left his role as player developer to become assistant coach of the club, with
Ian Burchnall
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Managerial career
Burchnall started his coaching career at the age of 22 at the University ...
becoming head coach. One year later, after the relegation of Viking to the
Norwegian First Division
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, Burchnall was sacked, and Lunde Aarsheim led the team in the last two matches of the 2017 season. On 19 December 2017, Viking appointed
Bjarne Berntsen
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Playing career
Bjarne Berntsen began his football career at local club Figgjo IL. He ...
as head coach, with Lunde Aarsheim continuing as an assistant coach. He served as an assistant coach under Berntsen for three seasons, in which the club earned promotion to the top division in
2018
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, and won the
Norwegian Football Cup
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in
2019
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.
On 26 November 2020, it was announced that Bjarne Berntsen would leave Viking after the 2020 season. Simultaneously, it was announced that Lunde Aarsheim and
Morten Jensen would replace Berntsen, taking over as joint head coaches on two-year contracts. Like Lunde Aarsheim, Jensen was also an assistant coach at the club before being appointed head coach. They took charge ahead of the 2021 season. Viking finished the
2021 season in third place, and on 25 March 2022, the head coaches' contracts were extended until the end of the 2025 season.
Career statistics
;Notes
Managerial statistics
Honours
;Viking
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Norwegian Football Cup
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:
2001
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References
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1975 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Stavanger
Association football midfielders
Norwegian footballers
Norway international footballers
Norway youth international footballers
Norway under-21 international footballers
Viking FK players
IK Start players
Randaberg IL players
Eliteserien players
Norwegian First Division players
Norwegian Second Division players
Norwegian Third Division players
Norwegian Fourth Division players
Viking FK non-playing staff
Norwegian football managers
Viking FK managers
Eliteserien managers