Margunn Haugenes (née Humlestøl; born 25 January 1970) is a

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. She became

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in 2000. She has won silver medals with the Norway national team, in the World Cup and in the European Championships.

Career

Haugenes debuted for the

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in 1990 at the age of 20, also moving from her lower-division club

Kaupanger IL Kaupanger Idrettslag is a Norwegian sports club from Kaupanger in Sogndal. It has sections for association football, athletics, floorball and skiing. The men's football team currently plays in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian fo ...

to the

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club Asker SK. In 1994 she moved to Bergen to play for

IL Sandviken Idrettslaget Sandviken is a Norwegian sports club from the neighborhood of Sandviken in Bergenhus borough, Bergen. It has sections for basketball, football and handball. It was mostly known for its women's football team that played in the To ...

, winning the

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competition in 1995. In 1996 she moved to Bjørnar, now

Arna-Bjørnar Arna-Bjørnar Fotball is a Norwegian football club from Arna, Bergen. It was founded in late 2000 as a merger between the football branches from ''IL Bjørnar'' and ''Arna T&IL'', and replaced Bjørnar IL in the league system from 2001. The w ...

, in the same city, contributing to the team's promotion to the Toppserien and ensuring that it became established at the top level. Haugenes played 79 matches for the national team, gaining the runner-up place in both the World Cup and the European Cup in 1991. She missed the 1999 season due to pregnancy, but she and the team then won Gold at the

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in Sydney."2000 Summer Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Soccer"
(Retrieved on May 16, 2008) Following the Sydney Olympics Haugenes had two seasons at the English club Fulham, and on 6 May 2002 she was in the team that beat Doncaster Belles to win the

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. In 2003, she returned to Norway to play for

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and eventually retired from football at the end of 2007 after 18 months as player/trainer for the same club. But Haugenes then started playing again for Amazon Grimstad in 2010 when her husband Gaute Haugenes, former trainer at Fulham, took over as the club's chief trainer. In September 2011 she was still playing as a midfielder in the Toppserien at the age of 41. Haugenes works as a teacher and as a TV commentator, and is the assistant trainer of Norway's Under-19 girls' team. She has two children. In 2014, she made another playing comeback with a lower division men's team IL Sørfjell. In 2017 Haugenes was forced to make comeback again because the team that she is coach did not have enough players in the game against Vålerenga.

Honours

Fulham * FA Women's Premier League National Division: 2002–03 *

: 2002, 2003 *FA Women's Premier League Cup: 2001–02

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* * * * * * * 1970 births Living people Norwegian women's footballers Norway women's international footballers Arna-Bjørnar players Fulham L.F.C. players Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of Norway Olympic gold medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in football 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup players FA Women's National League players Toppserien players Norwegian expatriate women's footballers Expatriate women's footballers in England Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in England SK Brann Kvinner players Asker Fotball (women) players Amazon Grimstad players People from Flora, Norway Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Women's association football midfielders Medkila IL (women) players Norwegian women's football managers Sportspeople from Vestland {{Norway-women-footy-bio-stub