Håkon Wibe-Lund (born 5 September 1980) is a retired Norwegian football defender and current assistant manager for

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. He hails from

Svelvik Svelvik is a town in Drammen municipality, Viken county. It is also a former municipality, which was a part of former Vestfold county. The town of Svelvik was separated from the rural municipality of Strømm to become a municipality of its own ...

and started his career in minnows Berger and

. He attended the

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, playing for the school team and

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. Without reaching Lyn's first team, he was loaned out to Fossum in the autumn of 2000 before transferring to Asker in 2001. Ahead of the 2002 season he went on to

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, a former first-tier team now on the third tier. He registered 77 league games, but lost the 2004 season to injury. He joined second-tier club

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in 2007, but more injuries led him to retire and instead became player developer. He had already coached Svelvik. In 2013 he became player developer and assistant coach of

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under

Lars Bakkerud Lars Bakkerud (born 1 June 1971) is a retired Norwegian football midfielder and later manager. After ending his professional career, he became player-manager of Norheimsund in 2007. He also took a 30% position as director of sports in Løv-Ham. ...

, taking over as caretaker manager already in June the same year. Both Lars Bakkerud and director of sports

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were on illness absence, and when Bakkerud still had not returned at the end of the season, Wibe-Lund got the job permanently on a two-year contract. He resigned from Fredrikstad in May 2015 following six league matches without victory as well as a

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exit, only to become assistant coach of

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in August 2015. In the summer 2019, manager Bjørn Petter Ingebretsen abruptly resigned amid health concerns, and Wibe-Lund became caretaking manager. His last outing as caretaker was a third-round

exit against third-tier

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on 19 June. He again became caretaker in April 2021, this time together with Bjørn Petter Ingebretsen, following the sacking of

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wibe-Lund, Haakon 1980 births Living people People from Svelvik Footballers from Vestfold og Telemark Norwegian footballers Fossum IF players Asker Fotball players Kongsvinger IL Toppfotball players Hønefoss BK players Norwegian First Division players Men's association football defenders Norwegian football managers Fredrikstad FK managers Strømsgodset Toppfotball managers Odds BK non-playing staff Eliteserien managers