Ole Gunnar Solskjær

**Ole Gunnar Solskjær** (born 26 February 1973 in Kristiansund) is a Norwegian former football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of Premier League club Manchester United. He played most of his career for Manchester United. He also used to play for the Norway national team.

### In Norway

Solskjær played for Molde FK and Clausenlengen before he went to England.

### In England

Solskjær joined Manchester United in 1996.  He played 366 games for the club and scored 126 goals.  In 1999, he scored four goals in twelve minutes against Nottingham Forest, "the fastest scorer of a four-goal haul on record in England".

With Manchester United, Solskjær won the Premier League six times and the FA Cup twice.  He scored the winning goal in the 1999 Champions League Final.

### Management

He became the coach of the Manchester United Reserve team, and then, In 2011, he got the job as head coach for Molde FK, the club he left to join Manchester United. He was appointed as head coach for Manchester United after José Mourinho was sacked in November 2018.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National Cup|colspan="2"|League Cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="6"|Clausenengen|1990|Norwegian Third Division Group E|||||—|—|—||||||
|1991|Norwegian Third Division Group M|||||—|—|—||||||||
|1992|Norwegian Third Division Group M|||||—|—|—||||||||
|1993|Norwegian Third Division Group M|||||—|—|—||||||||
|1994|Norwegian Second Division Group 5|||||—|—|—||||||||
|rowspan="3"|Molde|1995|Tippeligaen|26|20|4|6|—|4|3|—|34|29|||
|1996|Tippeligaen|16|11|4|1|—|—|—|20|12||||||
|rowspan="12"|Manchester United|1996–97|Premier League|33|18|3|0|0|0|10|1|0|0|46|19|
|1997–98|Premier League|22|6|2|2|0|0|6|1|0|0|30|9|||
|1998–99|Premier League|19|12|8|1|3|3|6|2|1|0|37|18|||
|1999–2000|Premier League|28|12|—|1|0|11|3|6|0|46|15||||
|2000–01|Premier League|31|10|2|1|2|2|11|0|1|0|47|13|||
|2001–02|Premier League|30|17|2|1|0|0|15|7|0|0|47|25|||
|2002–03|Premier League|37|9|2|1|4|1|14|4|—|57|15||||
|2003–04|Premier League|13|0|3|0|0|0|2|1|1|0|19|1|||
|2004–05|Premier League|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|||
|2005–06|Premier League|3|0|2|0|0|0|0|0|—|5|0||||
|2006–07|Premier League|19|7|6|2|1|1|6|1|—|32|11||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="12"|Norway|1995|2|1|
|1996|6|3|||
|1997|2|1|||
|1998|9|3|||
|1999|8|5|||
|2000|10|1|||
|2001|7|3|||
|2002|9|2|||
|2003|7|2|||
|2004|2|0|||
|2006|4|2|||
|2007|1|0|||

- _Scores and results list Norway's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Solskjær goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|26 November 1995|Kingston, Jamaica||1–0|1–1|Friendly||||||||
|2|27 March 1996|Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland||1–0|2–0|Friendly||||||||
|3|2 June 1996|Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway||2–0|5–0|1998 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|4|5–0|||||||||||||
|5|30 April 1997|Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway||1–1|1–1|1998 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|6|25 March 1998|King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium||2–2|2–2|Friendly||||||||
|7|27 May 1998|Molde Stadion, Molde, Norway||2–0|6–0|Friendly||||||||
|8|3–0|||||||||||||
|9|27 March 1999|Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece||1–0|2–0|UEFA Euro 2000 qualification||||||||
|10|2–0|||||||||||||
|11|28 April 1999|Boris Paichadze National Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia||3–0|4–1|UEFA Euro 2000 qualification||||||||
|12|8 September 1999|Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway||3–0|4–0|UEFA Euro 2000 qualification||||||||
|13|9 October 1999|Daugava Stadium, Riga, Latvia||1–0|2–1|UEFA Euro 2000 qualification||||||||
|14|27 May 2000|Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway||1–0|2–0|Friendly||||||||
|15|24 March 2001|Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway||2–2|2–3|2002 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|16|28 March 2001|Dinamo Stadium, Minsk, Belarus||1–1|1–2|2002 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|17|15 August 2001|Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway||1–0|1–1|Friendly||||||||
|18|14 May 2002|Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway||3–0|3–0|Friendly||||||||
|19|22 May 2002|Aspmyra Stadion, Bodø, Norway||1–1|1–1|Friendly||||||||
|20|2 April 2003|Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg||2–0|2–0|UEFA Euro 2004 qualification||||||||
|21|11 June 2003|Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway||1–1|1–1|UEFA Euro 2004 qualification||||||||
|22|2 September 2006|Szusza Ferenc Stadion, Budapest, Hungary||1–0|4–1|UEFA Euro 2008 qualification||||||||
|23|4–0|||||||||||||

## Managerial statistics

|rowspan=2|Team|rowspan=2|From|rowspan=2|To|colspan=5|Record|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|Molde|align=left|9 November 2010|align=left|2 January 2014|||
|align=left|Cardiff City|align=left|2 January 2014|align=left|18 September 2014|||
|align=left|Molde|align=left|21 October 2015|align=left|19 December 2018|||
|align=left|Manchester United|align=left|19 December 2018|align=left|21 November 2021|||

### Player

**Clausenengen**
- 3. divisjon: 1993

**Manchester United**
- Premier League: 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2006–07
- FA Cup: 1998–99, 2003–04
- FA Charity/Community Shield: 1996, 2003
- UEFA Champions League: 1998–99
- Intercontinental Cup: 1999
**Individual**
- Kniksen Awards Kniksen of the Year: 1996
- Kniksen's honour award: 2007

### Manager

**Manchester United Reserves**
- Lancashire Senior Cup: 2007–08
- Manchester Senior Cup: 2008–09
- Premier Reserve League North: 2009–10
- Premier Reserve League: 2009–10

**Molde**
- Tippeligaen: 2011,2012
- Norwegian Football Cup: 2013

**Manchester United**
- UEFA Europa League runner-up: 2020–21
**Individual**

- Kniksen Award Coach of the Year: 2011, 2012
- Peer Gynt Prize: 2009 (for his efforts for football and philanthropy)
- Premier League Manager of the Month: January 2019
**Orders**

- Knight of the Order of St. Olav, First Class, 2008

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Ole Gunnar Solskjær
- **image**: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Trondheim2011-1 crop.jpg
- **caption**: Solskjær as Molde FK, Molde manager in 2011
- **full name**: Ole Gunnar Solskjær
- **birth place**: Kristiansund, Norway
- **height**: 1.78 m
- **position**: Forward (association football), Forward
- **youthyears1**: 1980–1990
- **youthclubs1**: Clausenengen FK, Clausenengen
- **years1**: 1990–1995
- **clubs1**: Clausenengen FK, Clausenengen
- **caps1**: 109
- **goals1**: 115
- **years2**: 1995–1996
- **clubs2**: Molde FK, Molde
- **caps2**: 42
- **goals2**: 31
- **years3**: 1996–2007
- **clubs3**: Manchester United F.C., Manchester United
- **caps3**: 235
- **goals3**: 91
- **totalcaps**: 386
- **totalgoals**: 237
- **nationalyears1**: 1994–1995
- **nationalteam1**: Norway national under-21 football team, Norway U21
- **nationalcaps1**: 19
- **nationalgoals1**: 13
- **nationalyears2**: 1995–2007
- **nationalteam2**: Norway national football team, Norway
- **nationalcaps2**: 67
- **nationalgoals2**: 23
- **manageryears1**: 2008–2011
- **managerclubs1**: Manchester United F.C. Reserves and Academy, Manchester United (reserves)
- **manageryears2**: 2011–2014
- **managerclubs2**: Molde FK, Molde
- **manageryears3**: 2014
- **managerclubs3**: Cardiff City F.C., Cardiff City
- **manageryears4**: 2015–2018
- **managerclubs4**: Molde FK, Molde
- **manageryears5**: 2018–2021
- **managerclubs5**: Manchester United F.C., Manchester United