Roar Johansen (born 19 November 1968) is a Norwegian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

manager. Johansen has been youth coach and goalkeeper coach at

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, and has coached national youth teams for women. Johansen became the main coach of Sarpsborg 08 FF after Conny Karlsson in the summer of 2009. One year later, Johansen and Sarpsborg 08 celebrated promotion to

2011 Tippeligaen The 2011 Tippeligaen was the 67th completed season of top division football in Norway. The competition began on 20 March 2011 and ended on 27 November 2011. Rosenborg were the defending champions, having secured their twenty-second League Cham ...

. For this achievement, he was named "Coach of the Year" in

2010 Norwegian First Division The 2010 1. divisjon (referred to as Adeccoligaen for sponsorship reasons) was a Norwegian second-tier football season. The season began play on 5 April 2010 and ended on 7 November 2010. The clubs relegated from the Tippeligaen in 2009 were Fr ...

by tipsgaming.com. In 2013 he managed

Ull/Kisa Ullensaker/Kisa IL, commonly referred to as Ull/Kisa, is a Norwegian sports club from Jessheim in Ullensaker. Founded in 1894, it has sections for association football, team handball and athletics. General history The club was founded on 15 D ...

. After a stint in

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he went on to

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ahead of the 2015 season. He was sacked after the 2015 season and started working with marketing and media in Sarpsborg 08. This job lasted until the end of the 2022 season.

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1968 births Living people Norwegian football managers Sarpsborg 08 FF managers Ullensaker/Kisa IL managers Hønefoss BK managers Bærum SK {{Norway-footy-bio-stub