Tobias Lauritsen

Tobias Lauritsen

Lauritsen playing for Sparta Rotterdam in 2023
Personal information
Full name	Tobias Lauritsen
Date of birth	(1997-08-30) 30 August 1997 (age 26)
Place of birth	Norway
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Sparta Rotterdam
Number	9
Youth career
	Herkules
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2013	Herkules	4	(0)
2013–2014	Urædd	20	(11)
2014–2016	Odd	0	(0)
2016–2017	Pors	29	(33)
2018–2022	Odd	103	(18)
2022–	Sparta Rotterdam	46	(15)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 November 2023

Tobias Lauritsen (born 30 August 1997) is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a striker for Eredivisie side Sparta Rotterdam.

Career

Club

Lauritsen started his career in Herkules and got his first-team debut in 2013. Midway in the season Herkules had to pull its team from league play, making the entire player roster available for transfer. Lauritsen went to Urædd FK together with Kevin Jablinski among others. ^{[1] [2] [3]} One year later, Lauritsen progressed to the regional giants Odds BK where Jablinski had already gone. ^[4]

Lauritsen made his Odd debut in the 2015 Norwegian Football Cup first round, coming off the bench and scoring in a 13–0 thrashing of Skotfoss. ^[5] He then mainly saw playing time for Odds BK 2, the B team, in the 2015 2. divisjon, playing one more first-team game, the first leg of the 2016 Norwegian Football Cup.

In the summer of 2016 Odd picked up the talent Stefan Mladenovic from another neighboring club Pors, and Pors wanted Lauritsen and other players in a player exchange deal. The deal did not go through, but in September 2016 Lauritsen joined Pors anyway. ^{[6] [7]} Sustaining an injury in his debut game, ^[8] Lauritsen could not prevent relegation from the 2016 2. divisjon, but in the 2017 3. divisjon he scored 32 goals in 26 league games. As a result he was bought by his old club Odd. ^{[9] [10]} He finally made his Eliteserien debut, as a substitute in the league opener against Haugesund, and in the first round of the 2018 Norwegian Football Cup he bagged four goals.

On 21 June 2022, Lauritsen signed a three-year contract with Dutch club Sparta Rotterdam that came into effect at the end of July 2022. ^[11]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 12 November 2023 ^[12]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National Cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Herkules	2013	3. divisjon	4	0	2	1	–		–		6	1
Urædd	2013	3. divisjon	9	4	0	0	–		–		9	4
	2014	3. divisjon	11	1	2	0	–		–		13	1
	Total		20	5	2	0	—		–		22	5
Odd	2014	Eliteserien	0	0	0	0	–		–		0	0
	2015	Eliteserien	0	0	1	1	–		–		1	1
	2016	Eliteserien	0	0	0	0	–		–		0	0
	Total		0	0	1	1	—		–		1	1
Pors Grenland	2016	2. divisjon	3	1	0	0	–		–		3	1
	2017	3. divisjon	26	32	2	1	–		–		28	33
	Total		29	33	2	1	—		–		31	34
Odd	2018	Eliteserien	18	1	4	7	–		–		22	8
	2019	Eliteserien	21	0	6	6	–		–		27	6
	2020	Eliteserien	20	3	0	0	–		–		20	3
	2021	Eliteserien	29	8	3	1	–		–		32	9
	2022	Eliteserien	15	6	2	0	–		–		17	6
	Total		103	18	15	14	—		–		118	32
Sparta Rotterdam	2022–23	Eredivisie	34	12	2	2	–		0	0	36	14
	2023–24	Eredivisie	12	3	0	0	—		0	0	12	3
	Total		46	15	2	2	—		0	0	48	17
Career total			202	71	24	17	0	0	0	0	226	90

References

1. "Drømmer om Odd". Telemarksavisa (in Norwegian). 2 April 2013.
2. "Klubber forsøker å hente Herkules-spillere". Telemarksavisa (in Norwegian). 16 May 2013.
3. "Ny Herkulesspiller til Urædd?". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 15 August 2013.
4. "Forer Odd med talenter". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 6 August 2014.
5. "Fotball-NM: Skotfoss - Odd 0-13" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 22 April 2015.
6. "Pors skal ha penger og spillere". Varden (in Norwegian). 20 June 2016.
7. "Lauritsen klar". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 10 September 2016.
8. "- Veldig synd for Tobias". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 20 September 2016.
9. "63 av 84 mål borte fra Pors siden i fjor". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 12 January 2018.
10. "Lauritsen tilbake i Odd" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 18 January 2018.
11. "NOREN LAURITSEN EN KITOLANO NAAR SPARTA" (in Dutch). Sparta Rotterdam. 23 June 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
12. "Tobias Lauritsen". nifs.no (in Norwegian). Norsk Internesjonal Fotballstatistikk. Retrieved 3 May 2018.