Trine Bjerke Rønning (born 14 June 1982) is a former Norwegian footballer. She has previously played for Trondheims-Ørn and Kolbotn. Since making her Norway women's national football team debut in October 1999, she has won over 150 caps. Rønning represented her country at the

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editions of the UEFA Women's Championship, after being a non-playing squad member in

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. She also played at the

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s, as well as at the

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Olympic football tournament. In February 2015 she was appointed

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of the national team.

Club career

Rønning has won the Norwegian elite

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league six times with three different clubs. First with Trondheims-Ørn SK in 2000 and in 2001, then with Kolbotn in 2005 and in 2006 and again with Stabæk FK in 2010 and 2013. She won the national Norwegian Women's Cup in 1998 (as a 16-year-old), 1999, 2001 and 2002 with Trondheims-Ørn, as the captain of Kolbotn in 2007 and with Stabæk in 2011, 2012 and 2013. In five seasons with Trondheims-Ørn, Rønning scored 40 league goals in 86 appearances. After captaining Kolbotn through the 2007 and 2008 seasons Rønning declined a contract extension and joined the newly formed team Stabæk FK in early 2009. After the 2017 season Rønning decided to retire.

International career

Rønning made her debut on the Norway women's national football team in October 1999, a 4–0 win over Portugal. In 2001 with Norway's youth team she won silver in second place in the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship. In her early appearances with the national team Rønning played in nearly every position except goalkeeper. She eventually found a settled place in the team at centre back. She played for the Norway team that won silver at the UEFA Women's Euro 2005 in England, and finished fourth at the

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in China. Norway also reached the quarter-finals of the

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with Rønning as a leading member of the squad. On 4 September 2009 Rønning overcame a knee injury to play her 100th game for Norway in their 3–1 quarter-final win over arch-rivals

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in the UEFA Women's Euro 2009. In the same year she became vice captain. Veteran national

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Even Pellerud selected Rønning in Norway's squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden. In the final at

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, she had a first-half penalty kick saved by Germany's goalkeeper

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. Anja Mittag's goal gave the Germans their sixth successive title. In February 2015 Rønning was named national team

, as a replacement for the injured Ingvild Stensland. She scored the team's first goal at the

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, a free-kick in Norway's 4–0 win over Thailand.

Personal life

Rønning's brother

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is also a footballer who formerly played for Bodø/Glimt in the Tippeligaen. In January 2009, Rønning married national team-mate

Kristin Blystad-Bjerke Kristin Blystad-Bjerke (born 7 July 1980) is a Norwegian footballer who played as a striker for Kolbotn of the Toppserien and Norway women's national football team. Club career Blystad-Bjerke started her career playing for Kolbotn in 1997. Lat ...

, shortly after same-sex marriage in Norway was made legal.

Career statistics

''Statistics accurate as of match played 4 November 2017''

International goals

References

External links

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