Roger Nilsen

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Roger Nilsen
Date of birth	August 8, 1969 (1969-08-08) (age 38)
Place of birth	Tromsø, Norway
Playing position	Defense
Youth clubs
	Kvaløysletta IL
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1987-1988 1989-1993 1993 1993-1999 1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2002-2004	Tromsø Viking → Köln (loan) Sheffield United Tottenham Hotspur Grazer AK Molde Bryne	3 (0) 90 (11) 10 (0) 166 (0) 3 (0) 13 (0) 20 (2) 24 (0)
National team
1989–92 1990–00	Norway U21 Norway	019 0(2) 032 0(3)
Teams managed
2006 2007-present	Stavanger Viking (assistant)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Roger Nilsen (born August 8, 1969 in Tromsø) is a Norwegian football coach and former defender. He played 33 matches and scored 3 goals for Norway, and was a part of the 1994 FIFA World Cup squad.

His career began in Tromsø, and he moved on to Viking where he became league champion in 1991. He was loaned to FC Köln, and soon got a permanent move to Sheffield United in England. Nilsen is best remembered for his period there. Later he had unsuccessful spells with Tottenham Hotspur and Grazer AK before he returned home to play for Molde and Bryne. He left Bryne in 2003, but continued his career in the Norwegian third division with Stavanger IF.

In 2006, he retired and took over as manager for Stavanger IF, guiding the ambitious club to promotion to the second division. His team lost only two of the 22 league games, drawing a further two and winning 18 games, thus finishing the season with a goal difference of 71-14. In the promotion play-offs, they beat rivals FK Vidar 6-1 on aggregate. At the end of the season, Nilsen left the club to take up the assistant manager position at Viking in the Norwegian Premier League.

Roger Nilsen is the brother of Steinar Nilsen. His first name is correctly pronounced "ro-ger", not the English "roj-er", and he specifically hated it when English people got this wrong.^{[citation needed]}

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[edit] External links

Nilsen profile at www.til.no (Norwegian)
Nilsen profile at Norwegian FA (Norwegian)

v • d • e Norway squad - 1994 FIFA World Cup

1 Thorstvedt • 2 Halle • 3 Johnsen • 4 Bratseth • 5 Bjørnebye • 6 J. Flo • 7 Mykland • 8 Leonhardsen • 9 Fjørtoft • 10 Rekdal • 11 Jakobsen • 12 Grodås • 13 By Rise • 14 Nilsen • 15 Løken • 16 Sørloth • 17 Eggen • 18 Håland • 19 Strand • 20 Berg • 21 Rushfeldt • 22 Bohinen • Coach: Olsen