![]() Pedersen playing for Feyenoord in 2022 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | [1] | 16 July 2000||
Place of birth | Hammerfest, Norway | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Right-back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Torino | ||
Number | 16 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2016 | HIF/Stein | ||
2016–2018 | Tromsø | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2018–2020 | Tromsø | 20 | (0) |
2020–2021 | Molde | 28 | (2) |
2021–2025 | Feyenoord | 60 | (1) |
2023–2024 | → Sassuolo (loan) | 28 | (0) |
2024–2025 | → Torino (loan) | 29 | (0) |
2025– | Torino | 0 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2019 | Norway U19 | 9 | (1) |
2020 | Norway U21 | 2 | (0) |
2021– | Norway | 29 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 07:01, 19 May 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 June 2025 |
Marcus Holmgren Pedersen (born 16 July 2000) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Italian Serie A club Torino and the Norway national team. [2]
Hailing from Hammerfest, Pedersen started playing youth football in HIF/Stein. In 2016 he moved to Tromsø to attend the Norwegian School of Elite Sport there, and transferred to the youth section of Tromsø IL. [3]
Pedersen got his debut for Tromsø when he came in as an 86th-minute substitute in a Norwegian Cup first round tie against Skjervøy on 18 April 2018. [4] He got his league debut in a 1–0 loss against Odd on 28 October 2018, and became the first player from Hammerfest to play in the top division of Norwegian football. [5] On 5 May 2019, he received a red card for a professional foul and was sent off in the 88th minute of the game against Kristiansund. [6]
On 11 February 2020, Pedersen signed a three-year contract with Molde. [7]
On 22 June 2021, Molde confirmed that they had sold Pedersen to Feyenoord, [8] with the Dutch club confirming the arrival of the defender on a five-year contract the same day. [9] He scored his first goal for the club on 18 February 2023, scoring the second goal in the 90th minute in a 2–1 win over AZ Alkmaar. [10]
On 22 August 2023, Pedersen joined Italian club Sassuolo on loan for the remainder of the season, with an option to buy. [11]
On 22 August 2024, Pedersen returned to Italy and signed with Torino on loan, with an option to buy and a conditional obligation to buy. [12]
Marcus Holmgren Pedersen played nine games and scored one goal for Norway under-19. [13] On 27 February 2019, he scored in his debut game against Denmark which Norway lost 2–1. Pedersen was a member of Norway's squad in the 2019 European Under-19 Championship [14] and appeared in all three matches in the group stage.
He made his debut for the Norway national football team on 1 September 2021 in a World Cup qualifier against the Netherlands, a 1–1 home draw. He started the game and was substituted after an hour of play. [15]
Club | Season | League | National cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Tromsø | 2018 | Eliteserien | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 5 | 0 | ||
2019 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 19 | 0 | ||||
Total | 20 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 24 | 0 | ||||
Molde | 2020 | Eliteserien | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 [a] | 1 | — | 27 | 3 | |
2021 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 [b] | 0 | — | 11 | 0 | |||
Total | 28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | — | 38 | 3 | |||
Feyenoord | 2021–22 | Eredivisie | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 [c] | 0 | — | 47 | 0 | |
2022–23 | 29 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 [b] | 0 | — | 40 | 1 | |||
2023–24 | — | — | — | 1 [d] | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
2024–25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | |||
Total | 60 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 89 | 1 | ||
Sassuolo (loan) | 2023–24 | Serie A | 28 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 30 | 0 | ||
Torino (loan) | 2024–25 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 30 | 0 | |||
Career total | 165 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 211 | 4 |
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