Kjetil Knutsen (born 2 October 1968) is a Norwegian

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coach who manages

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Career

Knutsen started his manager career at fifth tier club

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in 1995, initially as a junior coach, then as head coach. Knutsen would take the team up two divisions in nine years before leaving for a role at top tier side Brann as head of first team development. He was hired as head coach at

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in 2012 and then at

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in 2014. After Knutsen was sacked from his position as head coach in Åsane, he joined Bodø/Glimt as assistant coach under head coach Aasmund Bjørkan. In 2018, Knutsen became head coach for Bodø/Glimt after Bjørkan became sports director. They finished the

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in second place, and Knutsen received the Eliteserien Coach of the Year award for this accomplishment. In 2020 he led Bodø/Glimt to their first ever Norwegian national league title, in a record-breaking season where they lost only one game. In 2021 he led Bodø/Glimt to their second Eliteserien title following a 3–0 win over

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. In 2021, he led Bodø/Glimt to the club's first group stage in Europe, where his outfit became the first team in history to score six times against a

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side in a 6–1 victory against

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at Aspmyra.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Bodø/Glimt *

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Individual * Eliteserien Coach of the Year: 2019, 2020, 2021

References

1968 births Living people Footballers from Bergen Norwegian men's footballers SK Brann players Norwegian football managers SK Brann non-playing staff Åsane Fotball managers FK Bodø/Glimt managers Eliteserien managers Men's association football players not categorized by position FK Bodø/Glimt non-playing staff Association football coaches {{Norway-footy-bio-stub