Kristin Lie (born 13 December 1978) is a Norwegian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who played as a striker for Egge. She was also capped while playing for

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Career

Lie was born in

Steinkjer Steinkjer is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Steinkjer which is located on the inner part of the Trondheimsfjord. The town is also th ...

and grew up in

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in Nord Trøndelag, where she started her football career with three local clubs,

Beitstad Beitstad () is a village in the municipality of Steinkjer in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located along the Beitstadsundet strait at the end of the Beitstadfjorden at the inner end of the Trondheimsfjord, about southwest of the vi ...

and

Verdal Verdal is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Verdalsøra. Some villages in the municipality include Forbregd/Lein, Lysthaugen, Stiklest ...

. She joined

Trondheims-Ørn Rosenborg Ballklub Kvinner (previously known as Sportsklubben Trondheims-Ørn) is a Norwegian women's professional football club in Trondheim, Trøndelag. History The club was founded as a multi-sports club on May 18, 1917, and became a me ...

in 1999. Lie was the team's top scorer in four consecutive seasons from 2006 to 2009 and also became top scorer in the

2007 Toppserien The 2007 season of the ''Toppserien'', the highest women's football (soccer) league in Norway, began on 21 April 2007 and ended on 3 November 2007. 22 games were played with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Number eleven and twelve were re ...

. With Trondheims-Ørn, Lie won the

Toppserien The Toppserien is the top level of women's association football in Norway. It was founded in 1984. History Women's league football was introduced on a county basis in 1977. These leagues acted as qualification for the regional (South) league in 1 ...

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, 2001 and 2003, and the

Norwegian Women's Cup The Norwegian Women's Cup ( no, Norgesmesterskapet i fotball for kvinner) is a knockout cup competition in Norwegian women's football. It has been organised annually since 1978. The final is usually played on a Saturday, the day before the men's ...

in 1999, 2001 and 2003. The team also became runner-up in the Toppserien in 1999, 2004 and 2006, as well as in the 2010 Norwegian Women's Cup. Lie signed a two-year contract extension to continue with Trondheims-Ørn in February 2012, and after 15 seasons with the club she played her last match at home when she got seven minutes as a substitute against

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in October 2013. Her last match before her retirement from top football was the last match of the

2013 Toppserien The 2013 Toppserien is the twenty-seventh season of top-tier women's football in Norway since its establishment in 1987. A total of 12 teams are contesting the league, ten returning from the 2012 season and the two teams promoted from the First ...

season, away against

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. For Norway, Lie played 12 matches and scored seven goals for the Under-21 team between 1999 and 2001. In 2007, the same year as she became top goalscorer in the Toppserien, she made her debut for the senior national team against

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. She was a member of the Norwegian squad for the 2009 UEFA Women's European Championship, and played a total of 16 matches for the

, scoring one goal, between 2007 and 2009.

References

Profile at club site
1978 births Living people Norwegian women's footballers Norway women's international footballers SK Trondheims-Ørn players Women's association football forwards People from Steinkjer Footballers from Trøndelag {{Norway-women-footy-bio-stub