Eirik Horneland

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Eirik Horneland
Personal information
Full name Eirik Horneland
Date of birth (1975-03-14) 14 March 1975 (age 48)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Brann (manager)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1993–2005 Vard Haugesund
2000 → Haugesund (loan) 3 (0)
2006–2009 Haugesund 87 (4)
Managerial career
2010–2014 Haugesund (assistant)
2015–2016 Norway U–19
2016–2019 Haugesund
2019–2020 Rosenborg
2020–2021 Brann (assistant)
2021– Brann
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Eirik Horneland (born 14 March 1975) is a Norwegian football manager and former player who is the manager of Eliteserien club Brann. He played as a defender and spent most of his playing years at Vard Haugesund before finishing his career at Haugesund. After retiring as a player, Horneland moved into coaching, first as an assistant manager at Haugesund, before becoming the coach of the Norway national under-19 football team.

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Horneland returned to Haugesund as manager in 2016, where strong league finishes earned him a move to Rosenborg in 2019. Horneland resigned from his position after a run of poor results and became assistant manager at Brann in 2020. He was later promoted to head coach and won the Norwegian Football Cup with the club in 2023. Horneland's current contract with Brann runs until the end of the 2025 season. [1]

Career

Horneland started his professional playing career at Vard Haugesund in 1993. He spent twelve years at the club, which included a short loan spell at Haugesund, before moving to the latter in 2006. Horneland retired after the 2009 season and become the assistant manager of Haugesund, whilst occasionally featuring in friendlies for the club and matches with the reserves team. [2] After five seasons at the club, Horneland left to become the coach of the Norway national under-19 football team in 2015. [3] He returned to Haugesund as head coach in October 2016 and led the team to several strong league finishes. [4] [5]

In January 2019, Horneland was appointed new manager of Rosenborg. [6] In June 2020, he resigned from his position shortly after the start of the 2020 Eliteserien due to poor results. [7] On 18 October, 2020, Horneland was appointed new assistant manager of Brann. After the sacking of Kåre Ingebrigtsen in July 2021, Horneland was appointed caretaker manager and later promoted to the role of head coach on 10 August. [8] Following Brann's play-off relegation to the Norwegian First Division in 2021, Horneland led the team to a promotion to Eliteserien in the next season, where they broke the league record for points and goals, and received the league's Coach of the Year award. [9] [10] In 2023, Horneland led Brann to their seventh Norwegian Football Cup title and a UEFA Conference League play-off round, where they lost to AZ Alkmaar on penalties. [11] [12]

Managerial statistics (all official matches)

As of match played 3 December 2023
TeamFromToRecord
GWDLGFGAGDWin %
Haugesund 15 October 20167 January 20197737142611791+26048.05
Rosenborg 7 January 201926 June 2020512213168366+17043.14
Brann 10 August 2021Present95621518265122+143065.26
Total2231214260465279+186054.26

Honours

Manager

Brann

Individual

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References

  1. ↑ "Nå har Horneland og Huseklepp forlenget med Brann". www.bt.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). 2023-01-19. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  2. ↑ "Avviser Horneland-comeback". Haugesunds Avis (in Norwegian). 25 January 2010. p. 23.
  3. ↑ "Eirik Horneland blir i Norges Fotballforbund". Haugesunds Avis (in Norwegian). 27 July 2016. p. 17.
  4. ↑ "Vender tilbake til FKH". Haugesunds Avis (in Norwegian). 13 August 2016. p. 40.
  5. ↑ Sagbakken, Ole K.; Stendal, Christian Skare (2018-12-21). "Kun detaljer unna å bli presentert som Rosenborg-trener". Aftenposten (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  6. ↑ "Horneland ny RBK-trenee". RBK.no (in Norwegian). 3 January 2019.
  7. ↑ "Enige om å avslutte samarbeidet". Rosenborg BK (in Norwegian). 25 June 2020.
  8. ↑ Bøyum, Mads; Otterlei, Simen Sundfjord (10 August 2021). "Klubben bekrefter: Eirik Horneland er Brann-trener ut sesongen". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  9. ↑ Hamre, Iris Katrine (2022-10-29). "Brann satte poengrekord i siste seriekamp - Kongsvinger og Ulf på kvalik". TV 2 (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2023-10-26.
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