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Jan Halvor Halvorsen

Jan Halvor Halvorsen

Norwegian footballer and manager (born 1963)

Jan Halvor Halvorsen (born 8 March 1963) is a former Norwegian football player and the current manager of Lyn.

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Club career

Halvorsen started his youth career in Pors, debuting at the age of fifteen and a half. He has also played for clubs like Brann, Rosenborg and Hertha Berlin. In 1992, he became Danish cup winner playing for AGF Aarhus.

National team

Halvorsen has five caps for the Norwegian national team.[1]

Managerial career

Since 1996 Halvorsen has worked as football manager, managing top teams from Norway and Sweden. In 1999, he took over as manager for Start and led the club to promotion to the Norwegian Premier League. In 2000, he led the recently promoted side to the semi-finals of the Norwegian Football Cup. After being relegated to Adeccoligaen, he once again led the club to promotion back to the Norwegian Premier League in 2001.

In 2003, he joined Sogndal and helped the club to an 8th-place finish in his first season in charge of the Norwegian Premier League side. In November 2005, he signed a contract with Notodden, bringing them up from the Norwegian Second Division up to Adeccoligaen, the second highest level in Norway. He remained with Notodden thru 2009.

During October 2010 it was reported that Halvorsen would be joining New York Red Bulls during the 2011 season to serve as the club's assistant manager under Hans Backe.[2] This move reunited Halvorsen with former Start boss Erik Solér who was in charge of New York at the time. His sons, Torben and Jonas also played on the Red Bulls youth teams. On 17 January 2011 it was officially announced that Halvorsen would join New York Red Bulls as an assistant coach.[3]

Halvorsen signed a three-year contract with the Norwegian First Division side Bodø/Glimt ahead of the 2013 season, and replaced Cato Hansen as head coach and stated that the goal was to win promotion to Tippeligaen.[4] And on his first attempt, he managed just that.

Managerial statistics

As of 19 May 2021.
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Honours

References

  1. [1]
    "Statistics for Jan Halvor Halvorsen". NFF. Archived from the original on 16 July 2004. Retrieved 20 March 2003.
  2. [2]
    "Jan Halvor Halvorsen to join Red Bull" (in Norwegian). vg.no. 16 October 2010. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
  3. [3]
    "Red Bulls name Jan Halvor Halvorsen assistant coach". New York Red Bulls. 17 January 2011. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  4. [4]
    Røiseland, Simen Follesø (19 December 2012). "Jan Halvor Halvorsen trener Bodø/Glimt de neste tre årene" (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
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