Jan Åge Fjørtoft

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Jan Åge Fjørtoft
Personal information
Full name Jan Åge Fjørtoft
Date of birth (1967-01-10) 10 January 1967 (age 57)[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)
National team
1984 Norway U19 6 (5)
1985–1987 Norway U21 14 (6)
1986–1996 Norway 71 (20)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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

Career statistics[change | change source]

Club[change | change source]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup League cup Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Ham-Kam 1986[3][4] 1. divisjon 22 7 3 6 – – – 25 13
1987[3][4] 1. divisjon 22 10 6 5 – – 2[a] 0 30 15
Total 44 17 9 11 0 0 0 0 2 0 55 28
Lillestrøm 1988[3] 1. divisjon 22 14 3 2 – – – 25 16
1989[3] 1. divisjon 11 6 3 2 – 0 0 – 14 8
Total 33 20 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 24
Rapid Wien 1989–90[5] Austrian Bundesliga 34 17 5 3 – 6 3 – 45 23
1990–91[5] Austrian Bundesliga 33 17 5 4 – 2 0 – 40 21
1991–92[5] Austrian Bundesliga 34 16 3 6 – – – 37 22
1992–93[5] Austrian Bundesliga 28 13 4 4 – 2 2 – 34 19
Total 129 63 17 17 0 0 10 5 0 0 156 85
Swindon Town 1993–94[6] Premier League 36 12 2 1 1 0 – – 39 13
1994–95[6] First Division 36 15 2 1 8 9 – 2[b] 0 48 25
Total 72 27 4 2 9 9 0 0 2 0 87 38
Middlesbrough 1994–95[7] First Division 8 3 0 0 0 0 – – 8 3
1995–96[7] Premier League 28 6 0 0 6 2 – – 34 8
1996–97[7][8] Premier League 5 1 2 1 1 0 – – 8 2
Total 41 10 2 1 7 2 0 0 0 0 50 13
Sheffield United 1996–97[8] First Division 17 10 0 0 0 0 – 3[c] 1 20 11
1997–98[8][9] First Division 17 9 2 2 3 1 – – 22 12
Total 34 19 2 2 3 1 0 0 3 1 42 23
Barnsley 1997–98[8] Premier League 15 6 0 0 0 0 – – 15 6
1998–99[8] First Division 19 3 0 0 6 4 – – 25 7
Total 34 9 0 0 6 4 0 0 0 0 40 13
Eintracht Frankfurt 1998–99[10] Bundesliga 17 6 0 0 – – – 17 6
1999–00[10] Bundesliga 21 5 1 2 – – – 22 7
2000–01[10] Bundesliga 14 3 1 1 – – – 15 4
Total 52 14 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 54 17
Stabæk 2001[3] Tippeligaen 15 6 3 2 – – – 18 8
Lillestrøm 2002[3] Tippeligaen 4 0 3 0 – 0 0 – 7 0
career total 458 185 48 42 25 16 10 5 7 1 548 249
  1. ↑ Appearances in Playoffs
  2. ↑ Appearances in Anglo-Italian Cup
  3. ↑ Appearances in 1997 Football League play-offs

International[change | change source]

Appearances and goals by national team and year[11]
National team Year Apps Goals
Norway 1986 1 0
1987 2 0
1988 4 2
1989 10 3
1990 9 3
1991 6 2
1992 4 0
1993 9 5
1994 11 1
1995 11 4
1996 4 0
Total 71 20
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
1 28 July 1988 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway  Brazil 1–0 1–1 Friendly
2 14 September 1988 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway  Scotland 1–1 1–2 1990 FIFA World Cup qualifier
3 31 May 1989 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway  Austria 2–0 4–1 Friendly
4 14 June 1989 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway  Yugoslavia 1–2 1–2 1990 FIFA World Cup qualifier
5 25 October 1989 Mohammed Al-Hamad Stadium, Kuwait City, Kuwait  Kuwait 2–2 2–2 Friendly
6 7 February 1990 Ta' Qali National Stadium, Attard, Malta  Malta 1–0 1–1 Rothmans tournament
7 31 October 1990 Bislett Stadion, Oslo, Norway  Cameroon 4–0 6–1 Friendly
8 5–0
9 23 May 1991 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway  Romania 1–0 1–0 Friendly
10 25 September 1991 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway  Czechoslovakia 2–2 2–3 Friendly
11 30 March 1993 Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar  Qatar 3–0 6–1 Friendly
12 4–0
13 5–0
14 28 April 1993 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway  Turkey 2–0 3–1 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier
15 13 October 1993 Stadion Miejski, Poznań, Poland  Poland 2–0 3–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier
16 14 December 1994 Ta' Qali National Stadium, Attard, Malta  Malta 1–0 1–0 UEFA Euro 1996 qualifier
17 26 April 1995 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway  Luxembourg 2–0 5–0 UEFAEuro 1996 qualifier
18 25 May 1995 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway  Ghana 2–1 3–2 Friendly
19 3–1
20 7 June 1995 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway  Malta 1–0 2–0 UEFA Euro 1996 qualifier

Honours[change | change source]

Lillestrøm

Middlesbrough

Individual

References[change | change source]

  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. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 "Jan Åge Fjørtoft" (in Norwegian). NFF. Archived from the original on 18 January 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Jan Åge Fjørtoft" (in Norwegian). HamKam. Archived from the original on 3 September 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Jan Age FJÖRTOFT" (in German). Rapid Wien. Archived from the original on 8 August 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Fjørtoft's Swindon Profile". Swindon Town. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Jan-Aage Fjortoft". 11v11.com. Archived from the original on 30 November 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 "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. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "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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