Tor Arne Sannerholt

Tor Arne Sannerholt

Personal information
Date of birth	(1967-12-12) 12 December 1967 (age 55)
Position(s)	midfielder
Youth career
	Skotfoss
–1985	Odd
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1985–1988	Odd
1989–1991	Kongsvinger	36	(1)
1991–1997	Odd
1995	→ Strømsgodset (loan)
1998	Strømsgodset	14	(1)
1999	Odd	11	(0)
2000–2001	Tollnes
2002–2003	Pors
2004–?	Herkules
2005	Notodden
Managerial career
2002–2003	Pors (playing assistant)
2004–?	Herkules (playing manager)
2006	Odd (junior coach)
2007–2009	Herkules (co-coach/assistant)
2011	Skotfoss (assistant)
2012	Fossum (consulting coach)
2014–2016	Skotfoss (co-coach)
2017–2018	Tollnes (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tor Arne Sannerholt (born 12 December 1967) is a retired Norwegian football midfielder and later manager.

Growing up in the club Skotfoss, he moved to Odd as a junior player, helped win the 1985 Norwegian Junior Cup and was also drafted into the first team. ^[1] After three seasons in Odd he was bought by Kongsvinger. ^[2] Here he played a majority of the games in 1989 and 1990, but few in 1991. ^[3] He had a row with manager Svein Ivar Sigernes and returned to a long spell in Odd. ^[1]

He was loaned by Strømsgodset in 1995 to secure promotion from the 1995 1. divisjon, and later made a permanent transfer in 1998. During both spells, he commuted by car between Skien and Drammen. Sannerholt has admitted to smoking eight cigarettes on each car ride, and commented on his lack of professionalism at the time. ^[4] In May 1998 he received a five-match ban after being red-carded and allegedly making post-match verbal threats toward the referee. ^[5] After the season was deemed surplus by Strømsgodset's chairman and was let go, ^[4] only to return to Odd one more time. He did not win a regular team spot and went on to lesser local clubs Tollnes and Pors. ^[6]

While playing for Pors, Sannerholt was also assistant manager under Dag-Eilev Fagermo.^{[ citation needed ]} His first head coach position was as player-manager of IF Herkules from 2004. ^[7] In 2005 he joined Dag-Eilev Fagermo's new club Notodden FK as an emergency backup player. ^[8] In 2006 he coached Odd's junior team, but left ^[9] and returned to Herkules. This time he left in the summer of 2009. ^[10]

His first stint as assistant in Skotfoss TIF came in 2011. ^[11] He then went to Fossum's women's team as consulting coach. ^[12] Ahead of the 2014 season he became co-coach of Skotfoss TIF ^[13] Ahead of the 2017 season he became assistant of Tollnes BK under Kai David Elvenes; the former 1. divisjon club wanting to regain some of its former glory. ^[14] This spell lasted for two seasons. ^[15]

References

1. "Vinnerskallen og balleleganten". Telemarksavisa (in Norwegian). 11 October 2017. pp. 26–27.
2. "Sannerholt til Kongsvinger" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 2 November 1988.
3. Fossum, Geir. "Tor Arne Sannerholt" (in Norwegian). Fozzum.com. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
4. "SIF-fansen hadde hjerter som var formet som klubbmerket". Drammens Tidende (in Norwegian). 5 May 2012. p. 21.
5. "Truet dommeren i garderoben - fikk fem kampers karantene". VG (in Norwegian). 15 May 1998. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
6. Tor Arne Sannerholt at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
7. "Tor Arne trener Herkules neste år". Telemarksavisa (in Norwegian). 2 October 2003. p. 36.
8. "Sannerholt til Notodden". Telemarksavisa (in Norwegian). 7 August 2005. p. 30.
9. "Noen kommer og andre går". Telemarksavisa (in Norwegian). 14 November 2006. p. 36.
10. "Stor aktivitet". Telemarksavisa (in Norwegian). 16 July 2009. p. 31.
11. "Klare for Skotfoss". Telemarksavisa (in Norwegian). 2 November 2010. p. 38.
12. "Sannerholt skal bidra i Fossum". Varden (in Norwegian). 3 November 2011. p. 36.
13. "Skotfoss". Telemarksavisa (in Norwegian). 18 October 2013. p. 41.
14. "Skal ta Tollnes tilbake". Varden (in Norwegian). 16 September 2016. p. 30.
15. "Trakk seg like etter". Telemarksavisa (in Norwegian). 12 January 2019. p. 35.