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Åge Hareide

1953 - 2025

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Åge Fridtjof Hareide (23 September 1953 – 18 December 2025) was a Norwegian football player and coach. In his playing career, he played for Hødd and Molde in Norway as well as Manchester City and Norwich City in England. Hareide was capped 50 times playing for Norway. In his coaching career he managed multiple clubs, as well as the national teams of Norway, Denmark, and Iceland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2024). Åge Hareide is the 138th most popular coach (up from 145th in 2024), the 204th most popular biography from Norway (down from 197th in 2019) and the most popular Norwegian Coach.

Åge Hareide, a Norwegian footballer and manager, was most famous for being the only coach to win domestic league titles in all three Scandinavian countries—Norway (Rosenborg, 2003), Sweden (Helsingborgs IF in 1999 and Malmö FF in 2014), and Denmark (Brøndby, 2002). He also achieved notable success managing national teams, including leading Denmark to the round of 16 at the 2018 FIFA World Cup and guiding Malmö FF to the UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time.

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Among COACHES

Among coaches, Åge Hareide ranks 138 out of 471. Before him are Zlatko Kranjčar, Wiel Coerver, Luigi Delneri, Francesco Graziani, Ljubiša Broćić, and Slavoljub Muslin. After him are Sergio Batista, Revaz Dzodzuashvili, Josip Kuže, Valery Nepomnyashchy, Rudi Gutendorf, and René Vandereycken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Åge Hareide ranks 183. Before him are Norman Finkelstein, Zera Yacob Amha Selassie, Wim Mertens, Can Xue, Lawrence Gonzi, and Slavoljub Muslin. After him are Lesley Nicol, Midge Ure, Mitsuo Watanabe, Douglas Diamond, Colm Meaney, and Ivica Šurjak. Among people deceased in 2025, Åge Hareide ranks 234. Before him are Halid Bešlić, Kiril Ivkov, Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Gazi Yaşargil, and Loretta Swit. After him are Dick Button, Taina Elg, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Pamela Bach, Claude Allègre, and Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Åge Hareide ranks 204 out of 1,039. Before him are Sigurd Hoel (1890), Jacob Tullin Thams (1898), Johan Bojer (1872), Jon Elster (1940), Fred Anton Maier (1938), and Gunnar Staalesen (1947). After him are Arne Brustad (1912), Oddbjørn Hagen (1908), Egil Danielsen (1933), Nils Christie (1928), Roald Aas (1928), and Johan Ludwig Mowinckel (1870).

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Among COACHES In Norway

Among coaches born in Norway, Åge Hareide ranks 1. After him are Egil Olsen (1942), Kjetil Rekdal (1968), Per-Mathias Høgmo (1959), Børge Lund (1979), Kåre Ingebrigtsen (1965), and Daniel Berg Hestad (1975).

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