Klæmint Andrasson Olsen (born 17 July 1990) is a Faroese

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who plays as a striker for

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club Breiðablik and the Faroe Islands national team. Olsen spent his entire football career with his hometown club

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before joining Breiðablik on loan in 2022. As of 2022, he is the all-time top scorer in the

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with 230 goals. He has been the topscorer of the

six times as of November 2020.

Club career

In the 2011 season, Olsen was the Faroese league's second highest scorer, scoring 17 goals in the league for

. On 15 September 2013, he scored all four goals in a 4–3 win against KÍ. Beginning in 2013, Olsen won the Golden Boot in four consecutive seasons. In the 2013 season, Olsen was the highest goal-scorer in the division with 21 goals, winning the Golden Boot. In the following three seasons, he was once again the highest scorer: in

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, with 22 goals; in 2015, with 21 goals; and in

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, with 23 goals. He won the Golden Boot again in 2019 with 26 goals and in 2020 together with Uroš Stojanov they scored 17 goals each. Olsen scored a hat-trick for NSÍ in a

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qualifier against Hibernian. In the 2020–21 season, he scored a hat-trick against Barry Town United in a Europa League qualifier, becoming the first Faroese to score two hat-tricks in European football. On 27 September 2020, he scored his 200th goal number in the

, becoming the first male player to score 200 goals in the Faroese top tier. All 200 goals were scored for the same club, NSÍ Runavík. He scored in a 4–1 victory against Skála ÍF. On 13 December 2022, Olsen agreed to join

club Breiðablik on an one-year loan deal. At the same time he has renewed his contract with Runavík till the end of 2024.

International career

Olsen was first called up to the

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squad in February 2012 for a training camp held in Spain and scored the winning goal in a friendly match against Spanish team La Union. He made his official debut in a World Cup qualifying match versus

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on 7 September 2012, coming on as a late substitute. Olsen scored his first international goal against

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in a

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match.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Faroe Islands' goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Olsen goal''.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Olsen, Klaemint 1990 births Living people People from Runavík Faroese footballers Association football forwards Faroe Islands international footballers Faroe Islands youth international footballers NSÍ Runavík players