Stine Hovland
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Stine Hovland[1] | ||
Date of birth | 31 January 1991 | ||
Place of birth | Vadheim, Norway | ||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Arna-Bjørnar | ||
Number | 6 | ||
Youth career | |||
Høyang | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010–2013 | Kaupanger | ||
2014–2019 | Sandviken | 119 | (9) |
2019–2020 | A.C. Milan | 13 | (1) |
2022- | Arna-Bjørnar | 3 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2018– | Norway | 7 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 May 2020 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 9 November 2019 |
Stine Hovland (born 31 January 1991) is a Norwegian football defender, who plays for Arna-Bjørnar in the Toppserien and the Norway national team. A relatively late bloomer, Hovland did not play in the Norwegian Toppserien until she was 24 years old and she made her national team debut at 27 years old.
Club career
Hovland joined Bergen-based Sandviken from Kaupanger in December 2013[2] and went on to be an important player and club captain. In her first season Sandviken were promoted to the Toppserien as 1. divisjon champions. In 2018 she helped Sandviken reach the Norwegian Women's Cup final, which they lost 4–0 to LSK Kvinner FK.
In April 2019, Hovland was reported to be a transfer target for professional clubs A.C. Milan and West Ham United.[3] She signed for Milan in July.[4]
Career statistics
- As of 9 November 2019
Club | Season | Division | League | Cup | Continental | Total | ||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Sandviken | 2014 | 1. divisjon | 22 | 4 | 3 | 0 | - | 25 | 4 | |
2015 | Toppserien | 22 | 1 | 3 | 0 | - | 25 | 1 | ||
2016 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 0 | - | 25 | 2 | |||
2017 | 22 | 1 | 2 | 0 | - | 24 | 1 | |||
2018 | 22 | 1 | 5 | 0 | - | 27 | 1 | |||
2019 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 9 | 0 | |||
Total | 119 | 9 | 16 | 0 | - | - | 135 | 9 | ||
A.C. Milan | 2019–20 | Serie A | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | 5 | 1 | |
Total | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 5 | 1 | ||
Career total | 124 | 10 | 16 | 0 | - | - | 140 | 10 |
International career
In November 2018, Hovland won her first cap for the senior Norway women's national football team, in a 4–1 friendly defeat by Japan at Tottori Bank Bird Stadium. She was also included in the 2019 Algarve Cup-winning squad and secured her place in Norway's 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup panel.
Personal life
Hovland's brother Even is also an international footballer. The siblings were team mates in their local youth team.[5] At the time of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, Hovland was not a professional footballer. She had to take annual leave from her day job as a preschool teacher to attend the tournament in France.[6]
References
- ^ a b "FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019: List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. 27 May 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- ^ Kleven, Gunnar (29 December 2013). "Stine dreg til by'n" (in Norwegian). Sogn Avis. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ Folvik, Herman Tinius (17 April 2019). "Kilder til VG: Sandviken-duo på vei til utlandet" (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ "Stine Hovland klar for AC Milan" (in Norwegian). Nettavisen. 15 July 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ Petersen Kalleklev, Helge Johan (15 November 2018). "Stopperprofilens "ukjente" landslagslillesøster" (in Norwegian). TV 2 (Norway). Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ Offerdal Vatlestad, Joar (27 April 2019). "Hovland har tatt permisjon for å satse mot VM: – En helt ny hverdag" (in Norwegian). Troms Folkeblad. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
External links
- Stine Hovland at Soccerway
- Norwegian National Team profile (in Norwegian)
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Norwegian women's footballers
- Norwegian educators
- Norway women's international footballers
- Women's association football defenders
- Toppserien players
- People from Høyanger
- SK Brann Kvinner players
- 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- A.C. Milan Women players
- Sportspeople from Vestland
- Norwegian women's football biography stubs