Erik Nevland
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Erik Nevland is a Norwegian
football forward who currently plays for Viking. He has eight caps for Norway
, and 22 caps at U-21 level.
Nevland started his career at Viking FK, but in 1997 he was sold to Manchester United
at the age of 19, before he had played a single first team match for the Norwegian side. What prompted Manchester United to sign him was a succession of hat-tricks in three games when he was on trial with them. His only goal for the United first team was in a Worthington Cup
match against Bury
in October 1998. He never managed to establish himself in the United team, with a successful loan spell at Viking and an unsuccessful one at IFK Göteborg
. He only ever made one league appearance for United, as a substitute against Southampton
on 19 January 1998.
He returned to Viking
on a permanent contract in January 2000, winning the Norwegian cup final in 2001 and scoring the two deciding goals in their famous UEFA Cup
victory over Chelsea
in 2002. He joined FC Groningen on a free transfer in November 2004, and since became a cult hero. In his first half-season for his new club he scored 16 times in 20 matches. Nevland also scored the first ever goal in FC Groningen's new Euroborg
stadium.
On April 27, 2007, Nevland signed a new three-year contract with FC Groningen. In December 2007, Nevland was voted 'Groninger of the Year' by television viewers in the province of Groningen, in spite of him not being born in Groningen or the Netherlands
.
On January 28, 2008, he signed with Premier League side Fulham
for a fee of €2.5 million (£
1.85 million), plus a further €0.5 million (£370k) if Fulham retained Premier League status, which they did. On February 3, he made only his second ever Premier League appearance when Fulham played Aston Villa at Craven Cottage
.
After making over 50 league appearances for Fulham, and despite Roy Hodgson
's wish to keep him at the club, Nevland once again returned to Viking in June 2010. He was promptly assigned the role as captain at Viking.
|1996
||rowspan="2"|Viking||rowspan="2"|Premier League
||1||0||||||||
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|1997
||13||5||||||||
|-
|1997–98
||Manchester United
||Premier League||1||0||3||0||||
|-
|1998
||Viking||Premier League
||8||3||||||||
|-
|1999
||Göteborg
||Allsvenskan
||4||0||||||||
|-
|1999-00||Manchester United
||Premier League||0||0||0||0||||
|-
|2000
||rowspan="5"|Viking||rowspan="5"|Premier League
||20||13||||||||
|-
|2001
||25||14||||||||
|-
|2002
||20||10||||||||
|-
|2003
||25||11||||||||
|-
|2004
||23||6||||||||
|-
|2004–05
||rowspan="4"|Groningen||rowspan="4"|Eredivisie
||20||16||0||0||20||16
|-
|2005–06||29||8||5||2||34||10
|-
|2006–07||27||13||1||0||28||13
|-
|2007–08
||12||6||1||0||13||6
|-
|2007–08||rowspan="3"|Fulham
||rowspan="3"|Premier League||8||2||0||0||8||2
|-
|2008–09||21||4||3||0||24||4
|-
|2009–10||23||3||1||1||24||4
|-
|2010||rowspan="2"|Viking||rowspan="2"|Premier League
||12||6||1||0||13||6
|-
|2011
||25||8||4||5||29||13
|-
!colspan="3"|Fulham Total
!52!!9!!4!!1!!56!!10
145||69||||||||
53||9||||||||
4||0||||||||
88||43||||||||
256||110||||||||
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 forward who currently plays for Viking. He has eight caps for Norway
Norway national football team
The Norway national football team represents Norway in association football and is controlled by the Football Association of Norway, the governing body for football in Norway. Norway's home ground is Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo and their head coach is Egil Olsen...
, and 22 caps at U-21 level.
Nevland started his career at Viking FK, but in 1997 he was sold to Manchester United
Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...
at the age of 19, before he had played a single first team match for the Norwegian side. What prompted Manchester United to sign him was a succession of hat-tricks in three games when he was on trial with them. His only goal for the United first team was in a Worthington Cup
Football League Cup
The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup or, from current sponsorship, the Carling Cup, is an English association football competition. Like the FA Cup, it is played on a knockout basis...
match against Bury
Bury F.C.
Bury Football Club is an association football team based in Bury, Greater Manchester. The team currently play in League One. The club's nickname is The Shakers which was bestowed upon them by club chairman JT Ingham, an industrialist and ironmonger of the late 1890s.-Formation of the club and the...
in October 1998. He never managed to establish himself in the United team, with a successful loan spell at Viking and an unsuccessful one at IFK Göteborg
IFK Göteborg
IFK Göteborg is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, the club has won 18 national championship titles, five national cup titles, and two UEFA Cups....
. He only ever made one league appearance for United, as a substitute against Southampton
Southampton F.C.
Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club...
on 19 January 1998.
He returned to Viking
Viking F.K.
Viking Fotballklubb is a Norwegian football club from the city of Stavanger. The club was founded in 1899 as football was becoming increasingly popular...
on a permanent contract in January 2000, winning the Norwegian cup final in 2001 and scoring the two deciding goals in their famous UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...
victory over Chelsea
Chelsea F.C.
Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...
in 2002. He joined FC Groningen on a free transfer in November 2004, and since became a cult hero. In his first half-season for his new club he scored 16 times in 20 matches. Nevland also scored the first ever goal in FC Groningen's new Euroborg
Euroborg
Euroborg is the stadium of football club FC Groningen, with a capacity of 22,329 seats. Located to the south-east of Groningen, the Euroborg site houses a casino and a movie theatre, a school, a supermarket and a fitness centre. A temporary railway station at the Euroborg has opened in late 2007....
stadium.
On April 27, 2007, Nevland signed a new three-year contract with FC Groningen. In December 2007, Nevland was voted 'Groninger of the Year' by television viewers in the province of Groningen, in spite of him not being born in Groningen or the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
.
On January 28, 2008, he signed with Premier League side Fulham
Fulham F.C.
Fulham Football Club is a professional English Premier League club based in southwest London Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Founded in 1879, they play in the Premier League, their 11th current season...
for a fee of €2.5 million (£
Pound sterling
The pound sterling , commonly called the pound, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, British Antarctic Territory and Tristan da Cunha. It is subdivided into 100 pence...
1.85 million), plus a further €0.5 million (£370k) if Fulham retained Premier League status, which they did. On February 3, he made only his second ever Premier League appearance when Fulham played Aston Villa at Craven Cottage
Craven Cottage
Craven Cottage is the name of a football stadium in the Hammersmith and Fulham area that has been the home ground of the association football team Fulham F.C. since 1896....
.
After making over 50 league appearances for Fulham, and despite Roy Hodgson
Roy Hodgson
Roy Hodgson is a former English footballer and current head coach of West Bromwich Albion.Hodgson, who has managed sixteen different teams in eight countries, guided the Switzerland national team to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup and qualification for Euro 1996; Switzerland had not qualified...
's wish to keep him at the club, Nevland once again returned to Viking in June 2010. He was promptly assigned the role as captain at Viking.
Career statistics
|-|1996
Norwegian Premier League 1996
The Tippeligaen 1996 is the highest Football league in Norway. 26 games are played with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Number twelve, thirteen and fourteen are relegated. The winners of the two groups of the first division are promoted, as well as the winner of a play-off match between...
||rowspan="2"|Viking||rowspan="2"|Premier League
Norwegian Premier League
Tippeligaen is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. The league is also unofficially known under its neutral name Eliteserien , although the name has never been official...
||1||0||||||||
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|1997
Norwegian Premier League 1997
The Tippeligaen 1997 is the highest Football league in Norway. 26 games are played with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Number thirteen and fourteen are relegated, number twelve has to play two qualification matches against number three in the first division for the last spot.- Final...
||13||5||||||||
|-
|1997–98
FA Premier League 1997-98
The FA Premier League 1997-98 season saw Arsenal lift their first league title since 1991, and also become only the second team to win the 'double' of the FA Cup and league title twice...
||Manchester United
Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...
||Premier League||1||0||3||0||||
|-
|1998
Norwegian Premier League 1998
The Tippeligaen 1998 is the highest Football league in Norway. 26 games are played with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Number thirteen and fourteen are relegated, number twelve has to play two qualification matches against number three in the first division for the last spot.- Final...
||Viking||Premier League
Norwegian Premier League
Tippeligaen is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. The league is also unofficially known under its neutral name Eliteserien , although the name has never been official...
||8||3||||||||
|-
|1999
Allsvenskan 1999
Allsvenskan 1999, part of the 1999 Swedish football season, was the 75th Allsvenskan season played. Helsingborgs IF won the league ahead of runners-up AIK, while Kalmar FF, Malmö FF and Djurgårdens IF were relegated.- League table :...
||Göteborg
IFK Göteborg
IFK Göteborg is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, the club has won 18 national championship titles, five national cup titles, and two UEFA Cups....
||Allsvenskan
Allsvenskan
Allsvenskan is a Swedish professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Swedish football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Superettan...
||4||0||||||||
|-
|1999-00||Manchester United
Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...
||Premier League||0||0||0||0||||
|-
|2000
Norwegian Premier League 2000
The final table from the Norwegian Premier League 2000 . 26 games are played with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws...
||rowspan="5"|Viking||rowspan="5"|Premier League
Norwegian Premier League
Tippeligaen is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. The league is also unofficially known under its neutral name Eliteserien , although the name has never been official...
||20||13||||||||
|-
|2001
Norwegian Premier League 2001
The table from the Tippeligaen 2001 .Twenty-six games are played in which three points are given for a win and one point is given for a draw...
||25||14||||||||
|-
|2002
Norwegian Premier League 2002
The table from the Tippeligaen 2002 .26 games are played with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Number thirteen and fourteen are relegated, number twelve has to play two qualification matches against number three in the first division for the last spot.-Final standings: P:...
||20||10||||||||
|-
|2003
Norwegian Premier League 2003
The final table from the Norwegian Premier League 2003 . 26 games are played with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws...
||25||11||||||||
|-
|2004
Norwegian Premier League 2004
The 2004 season of the Norwegian Premier League began on April 12, 2004 and ended on 30 October 2004.26 games are played with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws...
||23||6||||||||
|-
|2004–05
Eredivisie 2004-05
The 2004-05 season of the Eredivisie started on August 13, 2004 and ended on May 22, 2005. The title was won by PSV. FC Den Bosch and De Graafschap were relegated to the Eerste Divisie at the end of the season.-Promoted teams:...
||rowspan="4"|Groningen||rowspan="4"|Eredivisie
Eredivisie
The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....
||20||16||0||0||20||16
|-
|2005–06||29||8||5||2||34||10
|-
|2006–07||27||13||1||0||28||13
|-
|2007–08
Eredivisie 2007-08
The 2007–08 Eredivisie was the 52nd season of the Eredivisie, the top division of association football in the Netherlands. The season began in August 2007 and ended on 18 May 2008, with defending champions PSV retaining their title with 72 points....
||12||6||1||0||13||6
|-
|2007–08||rowspan="3"|Fulham
Fulham F.C.
Fulham Football Club is a professional English Premier League club based in southwest London Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Founded in 1879, they play in the Premier League, their 11th current season...
||rowspan="3"|Premier League||8||2||0||0||8||2
|-
|2008–09||21||4||3||0||24||4
|-
|2009–10||23||3||1||1||24||4
|-
|2010||rowspan="2"|Viking||rowspan="2"|Premier League
Norwegian Premier League
Tippeligaen is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. The league is also unofficially known under its neutral name Eliteserien , although the name has never been official...
||12||6||1||0||13||6
|-
|2011
2011 Norwegian Premier League
The 2011 Norwegian Premier League season was the sixty-seventh season of top-tier football in Norway. The competition, which is also named Tippeligaen for sponsorship reasons, began on 20 March 2011 and ended on 27 November 2011...
||25||8||4||5||29||13
|-
!colspan="3"|Fulham Total
!52!!9!!4!!1!!56!!10
145||69||||||||
53||9||||||||
4||0||||||||
88||43||||||||
256||110||||||||