Ada Hegerberg

Ada Hegerberg
Personal information
Full nameAda Martine Stolsmo Hegerberg[1]
Date of birth10 July 1995
Place of birthMolde, Norway
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Playing positionStriker
Club information
Current team
Olympique Lyonnais
Number14
Youth career
Sunndal
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
2010–2011Kolbotn30(15)
2012Stabæk18(24)
2013–2014Turbine Potsdam25(11)
2014–Olympique Lyon20(24)
National team‡
2011–Norway U209(5)
2011–Norway[2]31(15)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 29 March 2015.

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 12 March 2015

Ada Martine Stolsmo Hegerberg (born 10 July 1995) is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a striker for the Division 1 Féminine side Olympique Lyon. She has previously played for Kolbotn and Stabæk in Toppserien.

Hegerberg has represented Norway at youth international level, and made her debut for the senior team in 2011. In 2013 she was a part of the Norwegian team that won silver at the 2013 UEFA Women's Championship.

Club career

Hegerberg was born in Molde,[3] but grew up in Sunndalsøra where she played for Sunndal Fotball along with her elder sister Andrine.[4] In 2007, their family moved to Kolbotn where the sisters later joined Kolbotn IL.[5]

She made her debut for Kolbotn in 2010.[6] On 6 August 2011, she scored three goals in seven minutes as Røa were beaten 4–1, with Andrine scoring the last goal. Aged 16, this made her the youngest player ever to have scored a hat-trick in Toppserien.[7] While still 16-years-old, she finished as Kolbotn's top scorer in the 2011 Toppserien season[6] and was voted as the league's Young Player of the Year.[8] Ahead of the 2012 season, both Hegerberg sisters joined Stabæk.[9] During a match against Fart in May 2012, she scored five goals during the first half of Stabæk's 8–2 win. At this stage the sisters were considered to be two of the biggest talents in Norwegian women's football,[10] and Ada won the Statoil "Talent of the Month" award for the second time in May 2012.[11] She became top goalscorer in the 2012 Toppserien with 25 goals in 18 matches.[6] She also contributed two goals in the semi-final of the 2012 Norwegian Women's Cup, when Amazon Grimstad were beaten 3–0.[12] Stabæk's 4–0 final victory over Røa saw Hegerberg score a hat-trick.[13]

In 2013 she and her sister signed contracts with the German side 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam until 30 June 2014, where they became teammates of their countrywoman Maren Mjelde.[14] Hegerberg scored in her Bundesliga debut when SC Freiburg was beaten 3–1.[15] In their first season in Germany, the Hegerbergs and Turbine finished second in both the 2012–13 Bundesliga and the 2012–13 DFB-Pokal.[16]

In summer 2014 she transferred to Olympique Lyon.[17]

International career

At the age of 15, Hegerberg was a part of the Norwegian under-19 team that qualified for the 2011 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship.[18] She was also included in the squad for the final tournament, where Norway reached the final.[4] Hegerberg was included in the Norwegian squad for the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, there the team reached the quarter-final. She and Andrine scored the goals in a 2–1 win over Canada in the group-stage.[19] She made her senior debut for Norway as a substitute in a 3–1 defeat to Northern Ireland in Lurgan on 19 November 2011.[8]

Hegerberg was selected in the Norwegian squad for the 2013 UEFA Women's Championship and made her championship debut in the opening match; a 1–1 draw with Iceland on 11 July 2013.[20] She scored her first goal in the tournament as Spain were defeated 3–1 in the quarter-final[21] and played the entire 90 minutes as Norway lost the final 0–1 to Germany.[22]

Career statistics

As of 29 March 2015[23][24][25]
Division Club Season League Cup1 Continental2 Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Toppserien Kolbotn 2010 9300—93
2011 211210—2212
Total 301510—3115
Stabæk 2012 182457322633
Bundesliga Turbine Potsdam 2012–13 1152000135
2013–14 1461152209
Total 251131523314
Division 1 Féminine Lyon 2014–15 202456412931
Career total 9374141412511993

1Includes Norwegian Cup, DFB-Pokal and Coupe de France.

2UEFA Women's Champions League

Honours

Club

Lyon

References

  1. ↑ "FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Japan 2012 List of Players Norway". FIFA. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Ada Stolsmo Hegerberg Profil" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Norway Mediaguide 2013". Football Association of Norway. p. 10. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Debove, Julien (4 June 2011). "Hegerberg sisters unite for Norway success". UEFA. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  5. ↑ "Hegerberg månedens fotballtalent for Juli". fotball.no (in Norwegian). Football Association of Norway. 13 September 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Hellen, Bjørnar; Traaen, Olav (13 December 2012). "Hegerberg-søstrene til tysk toppklubb" (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  7. ↑ "16-åring senket serielederen med hattrick" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. Norwegian News Agency. 6 August 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Gulbrandsen, Ragnhild (12 December 2011). "Stabæk forsterker ytterligere" (in Norwegian). Budstikka. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  9. ↑ "Hegerberg-søstrene til Stabæk" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 12 December 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  10. ↑ Weiberg-Aurdal, Jan Magnus (11 May 2012). "Stortalent (16) scoret fem mål på én omgang: – Jeg gjør bare jobben min" (in Norwegian). TV 2. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  11. ↑ "Ada Stolsmo Hegerberg er månedens fotballtalent - mai 2012" (in Norwegian). TV 2. 24 May 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  12. ↑ Flygind, Kjetil (10 October 2012). "Her sender Hegerberg Stabæk til cupfinale" (in Norwegian). Fædrelandsvennen. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  13. ↑ Løken, Hans Henrik (24 November 2012). "17-åring blei cupheltinne for Stabæk" (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  14. ↑ "Potsdam signs Norwegian trio" (in German). womensoccer.de. 14 December 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  15. ↑ "Debuterte i Tyskland med scoring" (in Norwegian). Tidens Krav. Avisenes Nyhetsbyrå. 17 February 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  16. ↑ Berge, Andreas Kristoffer (6 July 2013). "Maren Mjelde og Ada Hegerberg om sesongen i Tyskland og EM". Fotballmagasinet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  17. ↑ http://www.womensoccer.de/2014/07/16/ada-hegerberg-wechselt-zu-olympique-lyon/
  18. ↑ "Ukens profiler: Ada og Andrine Hegerberg". fotball.no (in Norwegian). Football Association of Norway. 6 April 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  19. ↑ "Hansen og Hegerberg-søstrene reddet Norge" (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. Norwegian News Agency. 23 August 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  20. ↑ "Graham Hansen og Hegerberg starter for Norge" (in Norwegian). Dagbladet. Norwegian News Agency. 11 July 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  21. ↑ Lote, Arve (22 July 2013). "Tom Nordlie: - Dette er et "YouTube-selvmål"" (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  22. ↑ Ytterstad, Matias; Vistnes, Oddbjørn (28 July 2013). "Tok til tårene etter at gullet røk" (in Norwegian). Dagbladet. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  23. ↑ "Ada Stolsmo Hegerberg's profil". fotball.no (in Norwegian). Football Association of Norway. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  24. ↑ "Ada Stolsmo Hegerberg" (in German). 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  25. ↑ "Ada Hegerberg statistics" (in French). footofeminin. Retrieved 13 November 2014.

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