Vetle Auklend

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Vetle Auklend
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Auklend with Viking in 2025
Personal information
Date of birth (2005-03-22) 22 March 2005 (age 20)
Place of birth Stavanger, Norway
Position Left back
Team information
Current team
 Viking
Number 24
Youth career
–2018 Vidar
2019–2023 Viking
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2024– Viking 12 (1)
International career‡
2024 Norway U19 3 (0)
2025– Norway U20 7 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 24 November 2025
‡ National team caps and goals as of 24 November 2025

Vetle Auklend (born 22 March 2005) is a Norwegian professionla footballer who plays as a left back for Eliteserien club Viking.

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Club career

He grew up in the Stavanger borough of Sandal, [1] and is a younger brother of fellow footballer Sondre Auklend. [2] [3] [4]

Having played youth football in FK Vidar, Vetle Auklend came over to the academy of Viking FK in 2019. He made his competitive first-team debut in the cup in April 2024, followed by his Eliteserien debut eleve days later. [5] He scored his first goal in June 2025. [1] In 2025, he was competing to be the starting left back. [6]

International career

Vetle Auklend made his international debut for Norway U19 in July 2024, [5] at the 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Northern Ireland, where he was included without a single cap to his name. [7] The following year, he and the team made the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup. As Norway beat Paraguay U20, the opponents had a goal annulled via video assistant referee, as the video showed Vetle Auklend being shoved and trampled. [8]

Honours

Viking

References

  1. 1 2 "– Blir fremdeles ikke gjenkjent på butikken" (in Norwegian). TV 2. 27 June 2025. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
  2. ↑ "Se, her er Vikings nye brødrepar: – Et stort øyeblikk". Stavanger Aftenblad (in Norwegian). 12 October 2023. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
  3. ↑ "– Ikke kult når broren din får så mye tyn". Stavanger Aftenblad (in Norwegian). 22 January 2025. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
  4. ↑ "– Det ble sinnssykt" (in Norwegian). TV 2. 28 May 2025. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
  5. 1 2 Vetle Auklend at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
  6. ↑ "Viking-talentet øyner håp – holder interessert klubb på vent". Stavanger Aftenblad (in Norwegian). 21 February 2025. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
  7. ↑ "17 (!) EM-debutanter klare: – En sterk tropp" (in Norwegian). Eurosport. NTB. 2 July 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
  8. ↑ "Norges U20-lag skrev historie – til VM-kvartfinale med 1-0 over Paraguay". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). 9 October 2025. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
  9. ↑ Barka, Even Hye Tytlandsvik (30 November 2025). "Banestorming og enorme scener da Viking vant Eliteserien" [Pitch invasion and huge scenes as Viking win the Eliteserien]. NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Archived from the original on 1 December 2025. Retrieved 1 December 2025.
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