Roger Nilsen

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Personal information
Roger Nilsen
Full name	Roger Nilsen
Date of birth	August 8, 1969 (age 37)
Place of birth	Tromsø, Norway
Playing position	Assistant manager (former defender)
Club information
Current club	Viking F.K.
Youth clubs
	Kvaløysletta
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
	Norway	33 (3)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Roger Nilsen (born August 8, 1969 in Tromsø) is a former football defender from Norway. 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 og Bryne. He left Bryne in 2003, but continued his career in the Norwegian third division with Stavanger I.F..

In 2006, he retired and took over as manager for Stavanger I.F., 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 F.K. 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.

[edit] Playing career

2003 - Bryne (12/0)
2002 - Bryne (12/0)
2001 - Molde (8/0)
2000 - Molde (12/2)
1999/2000 - Grazer AK (13/0)
1998/1999 - Tottenham (3/0)
1998/1999 - Sheffield United (17/0)
1997/1998 - Sheffield United (22/0)
1996/1997 - Sheffield United (33/0)
1995/1996 - Sheffield United (39/0)
1994/1995 - Sheffield United (33/0)
1993/1994 - Sheffield United (22/0)
1993/1994 - FC Köln (10/0)
1993 - Viking (10/0)
1992 - Viking (22/1)
1991 - Viking (21/1)
1990 - Viking (22/8)
1989 - Viking (15/1)
1988 - Tromsø (2/0)
1987 - Tromsø (1/0)

	Norway squad - 1994 FIFA World Cup
1 Thorstvedt \| 2 Halle \| 3 Johnsen \| 4 Bratseth \| 5 Bjørnebye \| 6 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 Haaland \| 19 Strand \| 20 Berg \| 21 Rushfeldt \| 22 Bohinen \| Coach: Olsen