Jan Åge Fjørtoft

Jan Åge Fjørtoft
Personal information
Full name Jan Åge Fjørtoft
Date of birth (1967-01-10) 10 January 1967[1]
Place of birth Gursken, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[2]
Position(s) Centre forward
Youth career
Gursken
1982–1983 IL Hødd
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1985 IL Hødd 39 (34)
1986–1987 HamKam 44 (17)
1988–1989 Lillestrøm 33 (20)
1989–1993 Rapid Wien 129 (63)
1993–1995 Swindon Town 72 (27)
1995–1997 Middlesbrough 41 (10)
1997–1998 Sheffield United 34 (19)
1998 Barnsley 34 (9)
1998–2001 Eintracht Frankfurt 52 (14)
2001 Stabæk 15 (6)
2002 Lillestrøm 4 (0)
Total 497 (219)
International career
1984 Norway U19 6 (5)
1985–1987 Norway U21 14 (6)
1986–1996 Norway 71 (20)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jan Aage Fjörtoft (born 10 January 1967 in Ålesund) is a former Norwegian footballer.

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup League cup Europe Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Ham-Kam 1986[3][4] 1. divisjon 22736–––2513
1987[3][4] 1. divisjon 221065––2[a]03015
Total 44179110000205528
Lillestrøm 1988[3] 1. divisjon 221432–––2516
1989[3] 1. divisjon 11632–00–148
Total 3320640000003924
Rapid Wien 1989–90[5] Austrian Bundesliga 341753–63–4523
1990–91[5] Austrian Bundesliga 331754–20–4021
1991–92[5] Austrian Bundesliga 341636–––3722
1992–93[5] Austrian Bundesliga 281344–22–3419
Total 129631717001050015685
Swindon Town 1993–94[6] Premier League 36122110––3913
1994–95[6] First Division 36152189–2[b]04825
Total 7227429900208738
Middlesbrough 1994–95[7] First Division 830000––83
1995–96[7] Premier League 2860062––348
1996–97[7][8] Premier League 512110––82
Total 4110217200005013
Sheffield United 1996–97[8] First Division 17100000–3[c]12011
1997–98[8][9] First Division 1792231––2212
Total 3419223100314223
Barnsley 1997–98[8] Premier League 1560000––156
1998–99[8] First Division 1930064––257
Total 349006400004013
Eintracht Frankfurt 1998–99[10] Bundesliga 17600–––176
1999–00[10] Bundesliga 21512–––227
2000–01[10] Bundesliga 14311–––154
Total 5214230000005417
Stabæk 2001[3] Tippeligaen 15632–––188
Lillestrøm 2002[3] Tippeligaen 4030–00–70
career total 4581854842251610571548249
  1. ↑ Appearances in Playoffs
  2. ↑ Appearances in Anglo-Italian Cup
  3. ↑ Appearances in 1997 Football League play-offs

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year[11]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Norway 198610
198720
198842
1989103
199093
199162
199240
199395
1994111
1995114
199640
Total7120
Scores and results list Norway's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Fjørtoft goal[12]
List of international goals scored by Jan Åge Fjørtoft
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
128 July 1988Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway Brazil1–01–1Friendly
214 September 1988Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway Scotland1–11–21990 FIFA World Cup qualifier
331 May 1989Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway Austria2–04–1Friendly
414 June 1989Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway Yugoslavia1–21–21990 FIFA World Cup qualifier
525 October 1989Mohammed Al-Hamad Stadium, Kuwait City, Kuwait Kuwait2–22–2Friendly
67 February 1990Ta' Qali National Stadium, Attard, Malta Malta1–01–1Rothmans tournament
731 October 1990Bislett Stadion, Oslo, Norway Cameroon4–06–1Friendly
85–0
923 May 1991Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway Romania1–01–0Friendly
1025 September 1991Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway Czechoslovakia2–22–3Friendly
1130 March 1993Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar Qatar3–06–1Friendly
124–0
135–0
1428 April 1993Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway Turkey2–03–11994 FIFA World Cup qualifier
1513 October 1993Stadion Miejski, Poznań, Poland Poland2–03–01994 FIFA World Cup qualifier
1614 December 1994Ta' Qali National Stadium, Attard, Malta Malta1–01–0UEFA Euro 1996 qualifier
1726 April 1995Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway Luxembourg2–05–0UEFAEuro 1996 qualifier
1825 May 1995Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway Ghana2–13–2Friendly
193–1
207 June 1995Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway Malta1–02–0UEFA Euro 1996 qualifier

Honours

Lillestrøm

Middlesbrough

Individual

References

  1. ↑ Jan Åge Fjørtoft Archived 8 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (in Norwegian). Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Jan Åge Fjørtoft: Overview". Premier League. Archived from the original on 18 April 2022. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Jan Åge Fjørtoft" (in Norwegian). NFF. Archived from the original on 18 January 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Jan Åge Fjørtoft" (in Norwegian). HamKam. Archived from the original on 3 September 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Jan Age FJÖRTOFT" (in German). Rapid Wien. Archived from the original on 8 August 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  6. 1 2 "Fjørtoft's Swindon Profile". Swindon Town. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 "Jan-Aage Fjortoft". 11v11.com. Archived from the original on 30 November 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 "Jan-Aage Fjortoft". Soccerbase. Archived from the original on 16 November 2006. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  9. ↑ "Jan Åge Fjørtoft". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  10. 1 2 3 "Jan-Aage Fjörtoft". Fussballdaten.de (in German). Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  11. ↑ Søfting, Thomas. "Jan Åge Fjørtoft". Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  12. ↑ "Jan Fjørtoft". EU-Football.info. Archived from the original on 9 September 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
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