Ståle Solbakken (born 27 February 1968) is a Norwegian professional
football manager
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and former
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who is the manager of the
Norway national team.
During his playing career, Solbakken was named
1995 Norwegian midfielder of the year, and he won the Danish Superliga championship with both
Aalborg BK
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and Copenhagen (in 1999 and 2001 respectively). He played 58 matches and scored nine goals for the
Norway national football team during the end of the 1990s, and represented
Norway
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at the
1998 World Cup and
2000 European Championship tournaments. He ended his active career in March 2001 following a
heart attack
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.
As a manager, he was named
2004 Norwegian Manager of the Year, and has won eight
Danish Superliga
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championships with
Copenhagen
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. Solbakken was also in charge of German club
1. FC Köln during the
2011–12 season and then managed English side
Wolverhampton Wanderers
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in a six-month tenure.
Club career
Early clubs
Solbakken, a midfielder, started his career in Norway, playing for his local lower league team
Grue. After five seasons with Grue he moved to
HamKam
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, a then-
second tier club, in 1989.
He was the club's top goalscorer in the 1990 season, where he netted nine times. The following season he scored 14 goals to help the club to
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to the top-flight
Norwegian Premier League
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. After narrowly avoiding relegation in his first season at the top level, Solbakken was part of the HamKam side that finished 5th in 1993 - a position they have not bettered since.
Lillestrøm
In 1994, he transferred to their Premier League rivals
Lillestrøm
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where he finished as runner-up in the league during his first season. Although the club finished in fourth during the following campaign, Solbakken's performances saw him win the
Kniksen award
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as the Norwegian Midfielder of the Season.
He was appointed club captain by Lillestrøm and helped the side again finish runners-up in 1996 before he serving one final season in 1997 for ''the Canaries''. In total, he made 99 league appearances for the club, scoring 34 times.
Moves abroad
In October 1997, Solbakken joined
English Premier League
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club
Wimbledon
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for £250,000. In his six league games for Wimbledon, Solbakken scored one goal against
West Ham United
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, and was twice named "
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", but he fell out with team manager
Joe Kinnear
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and was banned from club training shortly thereafter.
He was quickly sold to Danish side
Aalborg BK
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in March 1998. Solbakken became Aalborg BK's captain, and guided the club to the
1998–99 Danish Superliga
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The Danish ...
championship, as well as the final of the
1998–99 Danish Cup
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tournament. He won Danish football's Player of the Year Award in 2000. In total, he played 79 games and scored 13 goals for AaB in the Danish Superliga.
In August 2000, he departed to Danish league rivals
Copenhagen
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. Solbakken quickly became a regular player in the side and helped push them to the top of the table but he was unable to complete the season after suffering a
heart attack
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in March 2001. The club went on to win the
2001 Superliga championship and give Solbakken a second championship medal as a player.
Health problems
During training on 13 March 2001, Solbakken had a
heart attack
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. He was rapidly attended to by the club doctor, Frank Odgaard, who found that Solbakken's heart had stopped beating. Odgaard asked a player to call an ambulance and to tell them it was critical, while he continued to administer cardiac massage. Upon the ambulance's arrival, Solbakken was pronounced
clinically dead at the scene.
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, 1 November 2006. On the way to the hospital in the ambulance, he was revived nearly seven minutes later.
He survived the episode and now has a
pacemaker fitted. The heart attack was the result of a previously undetected heart defect.
Shortly after, on medical advice, he announced his retirement from playing.
International career
Solbakken made his international debut for the
Norway national football team on 9 March 1994, in a 3–1 friendly win in
Wales
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. Although he was not named in the squad for the
1994 World Cup, he became a regular feature in the squad soon after.
He was a member of the Norwegian team that qualified for
1998 World Cup, where he appeared in two of their group games (against
Morocco
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and
Scotland
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) as well as their second round exit to
Italy
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.
His country qualified for the next major tournament,
the 2000 European Championship, but Solbakken picked up an injury shortly before the finals. In the end, he was only able to appear in one tournament game: a goalless draw with
Slovenia
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that eliminated them in the group stage. After this exit, he announced his international retirement, aged 32.
In total, he won 58 caps for Norway, scoring nine times.
International goals
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Managerial career
Ham-Kam
In 2002, Solbakken returned to Norway and started his managerial career at his old club HamKam, positioned at the second tier. He had great success at HamKam, as the club won the league and was promoted to the top-flight Tippeligaen. His "resurrection", and the "salvation" (i.e. promotion) of HamKam, earned him the nickname "Ståle Salvatore", often cited in Norwegian press since.
The next season, Solbakken managed HamKam to a fifth place in the
Tippeligaen 2004
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Each team played 26 games with three points given for wins and one point for a draw. Number thi ...
season, and he won the
2004 Kniksen award as Norwegian Manager of the Year. In late 2005, Solbakken was named as new manager of another of his former clubs,
Copenhagen
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.
Copenhagen
In his first years at the club, Solbakken guided Copenhagen to the
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and
2007 Danish Superliga
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championship, as well as the
2006
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Royal League
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trophy. He managed Copenhagen through to the group stage of the
2006–07 UEFA Champions League
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, after beating
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in the final qualifying round on 23 August 2006. Copenhagen finished last in its group, though they won a meriting 1–0 victory against later semi-finalists
Manchester United
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.
In May 2009, Solbakken led Copenhagen to
the Double of both the
2009 Danish Cup and the
2009 Superliga championship, the seventh championship in club history. On 3 November 2009, it was announced that he would not renew his contract which ended on 30 June 2011. Instead, he agreed a
letter of intent
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to become Norway national team manager either in January 2012 or after the
Euro 2012
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, should Norway qualify. However, this agreement was ultimately not to come to fruition.
1. FC Köln
On 15 May 2011, it was announced that Solbakken would take over as manager of
1. FC Köln of the German
Bundesliga
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from
sporting director
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Volker Finke
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Coaching career
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, who acted as interim manager after
Frank Schaefer quit during the season.
Solbakken had been due to take the Norway national team job in January 2012 but Köln bought out his contract for a reported €400,000.
He won his first game in charge, a
DFB Cup
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tie at
SC Wiedenbrück, but took four league games to register his first victory. By the winter break Köln sat in 10th place, but their form plummeted in the second half of the campaign and they dropped into a relegation battle. This decline in form was coupled with several negative incidents involving their squad misbehaving off the field. Solbakken later quipped that "
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and
José Mourinho
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would have struggled together at that club this year".
Solbakken was dismissed by Köln on 12 April 2012
following a 0–4 loss at
Mainz
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, with the team sat in 16th place. He was replaced by former coach
Frank Schaefer who oversaw the final four games of the season during which the club dropped to 17th place and so were relegated.
Wolverhampton Wanderers
On 11 May 2012, English club
Wolverhampton Wanderers
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announced that Solbakken was to become their new manager. He officially took over from acting manager
Terry Connor
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on 1 July 2012.
Solbakken began his Wolves tenure with the club in the
Football League Championship
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having been relegated from the
English Premier League
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at the end of the 2011–12 season. His first competitive game in charge was a
League Cup
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tie against
Aldershot Town
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, which his side won on penalties.
Solbakken failed to stop the club's slump that had brought relegation and despite at one time lifting the club to third place, they had slumped as low as 18th by the turn of the year. He was sacked on 5 January 2013 following an
FA Cup
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elimination by at that time non-league
Luton Town
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, which was his fourth consecutive defeat.
Return to Copenhagen
On 21 August 2013, Solbakken returned as head coach of
Copenhagen
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, two years after his departure.
Solbakken had a seven-year reign at Copenhagen in which he won three championships in 2016, 2017 and 2019. However, due to a bad start to the
2020–21 Danish Superliga, poor domestic results during 2020 and a failure to qualify for the
2020–21 UEFA Europa League
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Villarreal defeated Manchester United i ...
group stage, Solbakken was fired as manager on 10 October 2020.
For his two tenures at Copenhagen, Solbakken was awarded the title as the 'Biggest Manager in Superliga History' by a jury of 38 experts on the Danish Superliga including former Danish national coach
Morten Olsen
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and former football player
Rasmus Würtz
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, who is accredited with most Superliga games played to date with 452 caps.
Norway national team
On 3 December 2020, Solbakken became the Norway international manager on a four-year deal, after the resignation of
Lars Lagerbäck
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. In his first match the following 24 March, the side won 3–0 away to
Gibraltar
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in
2022 FIFA World Cup
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qualification. Norway failed the qualify, and Solbakken criticised the decision to host the tournament in Qatar due to human rights issues and the manner of the vote; the
Norwegian Football Federation
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sent only one representative, an analyst to monitor the team's next opponents,
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.
Managerial statistics
Honours
Player
AaB
*
Danish Superliga
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:
1998–99
Copenhagen
*Danish Superliga:
2000–01
Manager
Copenhagen
*
Royal League
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:
2005–06
*
Danish Superliga
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:
2005–06,
2006–07,
2008–09,
2009–10,
2010–11,
2015–16,
2016–17,
2018–19
*
Danish Cup
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The winner will quali ...
:
2008–09,
2014–15,
2015–16,
2016–17
Individual
*
1995 Kniksen award as Norwegian Midfielder of the Year
*
2004 Kniksen award as Norwegian Manager of the Year
*
Danish Superliga
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Manager of the Year:
2007,
2011
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References
External links
FC København profileFC København player statisticsAaB profileHam-Kam profile
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1968 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Kongsvinger
Norwegian footballers
Association football midfielders
Hamarkameratene players
Lillestrøm SK players
Wimbledon F.C. players
AaB Fodbold players
F.C. Copenhagen players
Eliteserien players
Premier League players
Danish Superliga players
Kniksen Award winners
Norway international footballers
1998 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 2000 players
Norwegian football managers
Norwegian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Denmark
Expatriate footballers in England
Hamarkameratene managers
F.C. Copenhagen managers
1. FC Köln managers
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. managers
Norway national football team managers
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Danish Superliga managers
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