Cecilie Hauståker Fiskerstrand (born 20 March 1996) is a Norwegian

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er who plays as a

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for LSK Kvinner of the Norwegian

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and for

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. Fiskerstrand got a rupture in one of the

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in the knee during a training 11 May 2022. She will therefore not be able to play the rest of the 2022 season in

or participate in the

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Club career

Fiskerstrand began her career in Langevåg. In 2014, she moved to the

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club

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, where she first played in the U-19 team and then also for the senior team. In the same year, she moved to

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club Stabæk. In November 2015 Fiskerstrand transferred from Stabæk to reigning champions

LSK Kvinner FK LSK Kvinner Fotballklubb is a Norwegian women's football club from Lillestrøm. They currently play in Toppserien, the top division of Norwegian football. The club was founded as Setskog/Høland Fotballklubb on 10 October 1989. History The cl ...

. Fiskerstand signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with Brighton & Hove Albion W.F.C. in January 2020. She stayed there until the end of the contract, but decided to leave after that due to a lack of playing time. In total, she played 7 matches for the club during the 2019-2020 season. In her debut match, she kept a clean sheet. After her second match, which was against Chelsea, she was rewarded with a place on the team. She returned to LSK Kvinner in June 2021.

International career

On 17 January 2014, she earned her first international cap in senior team in a match against

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. She earned a second cap only almost a year later, again in La Manga when she came off the bench replacing the veteran

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, on 15 January 2015. She was then called for the

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. In May 2015, she was nominated as the youngest Norwegian player for the

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. On 19 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player Norwegian squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023.

References

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NFF Player Profile
* 1996 births Living people People from Langevåg Women's association football goalkeepers Norwegian women's footballers Fortuna Ålesund players Stabæk Fotball Kvinner players LSK Kvinner FK players Brighton & Hove Albion W.F.C. players Toppserien players Women's Super League players Norway women's international footballers 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in England Expatriate women's footballers in England Footballers from Møre og Romsdal UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players {{Norway-women-footy-bio-stub