Åge Hareide

Åge Hareide
Hareide as Malmö manager in 2015
Personal information
Full name Åge Fridtjof Hareide
Date of birth (1953-09-23) 23 September 1953
Place of birth Hareid Municipality, Norway
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1970–1975 Hødd 37 (2)
1975–1981 Molde 93 (21)
1981–1982 Manchester City 24 (0)
1982–1984 Norwich City 40 (2)
1984–1987 Molde 72 (10)
Total 266 (35)
International career
1976–1986 Norway 50 (5)
Managerial career
1985–1991 Molde
1993–1997 Molde
1998–1999 Helsingborg
2000–2002 Brøndby
2003 Rosenborg
2003–2008 Norway
2009 Örgryte
2009–2012 Viking
2012 Helsingborg (caretaker)
2014–2015 Malmö FF
2016–2020 Denmark
2020–2021 Rosenborg
2022 Malmö FF (caretaker)
2023–2024 Iceland
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Åge Fridtjof Hareide (born 23 September 1953) is a Norwegian former football coach and player who last managed the Iceland national team. 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.

As a coach, Hareide has won league titles in all of the Scandinavian countries, In Sweden with Helsingborgs IF in 1999 and with Malmö FF in 2014, in Denmark with Brøndby in 2001–02 and in his native Norway with Rosenborg in 2003. Hareide was in charge of the Norway national team from 2003 to 2008. While at Malmö during his first time in charge at the club, he notably took the team to the modern-day UEFA Champions League group stages for the first two times in the club's history. He coached Denmark to a round of 16 finish at the 2018 FIFA World Cup before appointed coach of Iceland in 2023. Following his time with Iceland, he announced his retirement from coaching.