Eirik Haugstad

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Eirik Haugstad
Personal information
Date of birth (1994-01-17) 17 January 1994 (age 29)
Place of birth Norway [1]
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) [2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Lyn
Number 22
Youth career
–2010 Nesodden
2010–2012 Lyn
2012–2013 Stabæk Fotball
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2011 Lyn 5 (0)
2013–2016 Stabæk Fotball 44 (0)
2016–2017 FK Jerv 20 (5)
2018– Lyn 12 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 June 2018

Eirik Haugstad (born 17 January 1994) is a Norwegian football midfielder who currently plays for Lyn.

Career

He hails from Oksval at Nesodden [3] and played youth football for Nesodden IF, but transferred to Lyn when enrolling in the Norwegian College of Elite Sport. When the elite branch ("FK Lyn") went bankrupt in 2010, he joined the club's amateur branch ("Lyn Fotball"). In 2011 Lyn Fotball played in the 4. Division, the fifth tier of Norwegian football, and Haugstad played four senior games there. He mostly played for the junior team, and in 2012 he joined Stabæk to have the same role there. He did however make his first-team debut for Stabæk against Elverum in the 1. divisjon in 2013, his last year as a junior. [2] [4]

In 2014, he was a part of Stabæk's senior squad. His debut in the Norwegian Premier League was unprecedented. Stabæk's two goalkeepers were away for the FIFA World Cup (Sayouba Mandé) and suspended for a send-off (Borger Thomas). Stabæk chose to field their former goalkeeper, now retired Espen Isaksen. Not having a professional contract, Isaksen was only allowed to play a single game and was not allowed in the starting eleven. Thus, Eirik Haugstad started as Stabæk's goalkeeper and was substituted for Isaksen after only three seconds of play. [5] Haugstad later made his first-tier debut on his own merits, as a substitute against Vålerenga in July 2014.

In the summer of 2016 Haugstad OBOS-ligaen side FK Jerv. [6] In the fall of 2016, Jerv faced Haugstad's former club Stabæk in a promotion/relegation playoff. Haugstad scored the only goal in Jerv's 1–0 home victory, but they lost 0–2 on away ground. Ahead of the 2018 season Haugstad went down two tiers to sign for fourth-tier Lyn Fotball.

Haugstad was a talented track and field athlete, who clocked personal best times of 11.37 in the 100 metres (2011), 22.63 in the 200 metres (2012), 49.73 in the 400 metres (2011) and 2.00 in the high jump (2012, indoors). [7] [8] His twin sister Kristin Haugstad [3] played in Toppserien for Vålerenga, later moving to Damallsvenskan.

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References

  1. ↑ "Stabæk Fotball profile". Archived from the original on 2014-07-02. Retrieved 2014-08-04.
  2. 1 2 "Eirik Haugstad" (in Norwegian). LynHistorie.com. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Talenter for fremtiden" (PDF). Fotballavisa (in Norwegian). Nesodden IF. 2009. p. 10. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "Eirik Haugstad debuterte for Stabæk" (in Norwegian). Norwegian College of Elite Sport. 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  5. ↑ Sandberg, Fredrik Økstad (9 June 2014). "Her blir "keeperen" Eirik (20) byttet ut etter tre sekunder". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  6. ↑ Eirik Haugstad har signert! Archived 2016-08-07 at the Wayback Machine , fkjerv.no, 2 August 2016
  7. ↑ "R". Norwegian Athletics. Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "Høyde/High jump". Norwegian Athletics. Archived from the original on 21 December 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
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