Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim

Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim (born 14 January 1975) is a Norwegian football coach and former player. He is currently head coach of Viking FK.

Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim
Personal information
Full name Bjarte Andre Lunde Aarsheim
Date of birth (1975-01-14) 14 January 1975
Place of birth Norway
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Viking (manager)
Youth career
Hundvåg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–2005 Viking 425 (15)
2005–2007 Start 42 (1)
2007–2011 Randaberg 83 (6)
2012 Hundvåg
National team
1993 Norway u-18 2 (0)
1995–1997 Norway u-21 17 (1)
1998 Norway u-23 3 (0)
2001 Norway 3 (0)
Teams managed
2013–2014 Sandnes Ulf (assistant)
2014 Sandnes Ulf (caretaker)
2015 Brodd
2017–2020 Viking (assistant)
2017 Viking (caretaker)
2021– Viking
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Viking

Aarsheim has stayed with Viking FK for the majority of his career, arriving from local club Hundvåg as a youth. Making his debut for Viking in 1994, he stayed with the club until 2005, playing a total of 425 games. A creative midfielder, Aarsheim was at his peak during the 2001 season, when, as captain, he led Viking to a league lead before suffering a serious ankle injury in a game against SK Brann halfway through the season. Although he made an extremely popular five-minute comeback in the Norwegian cup final victory over rivals Bryne FK later in the year, Aarsheim never really recovered from the injury. He played only 4 games in the 2002 season, and he was injured for large parts of the 2003 season as well.

Start

He remained captain of Viking until the end of the 2004 season, but midway through the 2005 season he was released on a free transfer, joining league leaders IK Start. In the summer of 2007 he surprisingly[1] joined Randaberg IL, a club playing in the fourth tier of Norwegian football, together with Øyvind Svenning. They managed two promotions to the second tier.

He ultimately played a couple of games for Hundvåg in 2012.[2]

International career

He made his national team debut in a 3–2 win against South Korea in January 2001, earning a total of three caps for Norway. His last international match was an August 2001 friendly match against Turkey.

Managerial career

On 26 November 2020, Aarsheim was announced as joint head coach of Viking FK together with Morten Jensen. The two coaches would take charge ahead of the 2021 season.[3] They previously served as assistant coaches under former manager Bjarne Berntsen.

Managerial statistics
As of 2 December 2017
Team From To Record
GWDLWin %
Sandnes Ulf (interim) 16 July 2014 20 July 2014 1 0 0 1 000.00
Brodd 30 November 2014 18 January 2016 29 12 4 13 041.38
Viking (interim) 9 November 2017 26 November 2017 2 1 0 1 050.00
Viking 1 January 2021 Present 0 0 0 0 !—
Total 32 13 4 15 040.63

References
  1. Kleppe, Per Sigve (13 July 2007). "Sjokksigneringene på plass". Rogalands Avis (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2007.
  2. Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
  3. "Jensen og «Batty» overtar som likestilte hovedtrenere" [Jensen and «Batty» take over as joint head coaches]. aftenbladet.no (in Norwegian). Stavanger Aftenblad. 26 November 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2020.


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