Asbjørn Helgeland is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 football coach and former player.

He started his career in Djerv 1919; and later played for Vålerenga and Fyllingen

Fyllingen Fotball

Fyllingen Fotball is a Norwegian association football club from Fyllingsdalen, Bergen, Hordaland.It was founded as a formally independent section of the alliance sports club Fyllingen IL on 1 January 1994. Fyllingen IL was founded on 6 June 1946...

. He joined the newly founded club FK Haugesund ahead of the 1994 season, and became a stalwart in the team. He left FK Haugesund in 1998, went on trial in China but played for Örebro SK

Örebro SK

Örebro SK, also known as ÖSK or just Örebro, is a Swedish football club based in Örebro. The club, formed on 28 October 1908, is currently playing in the highest Swedish league, Allsvenskan.-The first years:...

in 1999. He returned to FK Haugesund in the summer of 2000 as playing assistant coach, but left the club after the 2000 season. He continued as assistant coach under Kjell-Inge Bråtveit, who was fired after the 2002 season.

Helgeland continued his playing career in Djerv 1919. In 2007 he reached the milestone of scoring 200 goals for the team. He was still active as of autumn 2008.

In December 2008 Helgeland was hired as managing director in FK Haugesund. He had formerly, in late 2006, rejected a job offer as player developer.