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Personal information | |||
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Birth name | Thor Jørgen Haugland Spurkeland | ||
Date of birth | 12 May 1987 | ||
Place of birth | Bergen, Norway | ||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Right winger, central midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
NBK | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2003—2006 | SK Brann [1] | 1 | (3) |
2006 | → Løv-Ham (loan) | 1 | (0) |
2006—2007 | → Fyllingen (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2008—2017 | Førde | 130 | (23) |
2019 | Askvoll Holmedal | 12 | (13) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 January 2008 |
Thor Jørgen Spurkeland (born 12 May 1987) is an inactive Norwegian footballer who played midfielder and striker. [2] [3]
Spurkeland grew up in Knarvik, Norway [4] and played for NBK's youth team. [2]
In 2003, he was transferred to Brann [5] [2] [6] and played his first game on 26 May 2004 against Norheimsund. [2]
Brann won the Norwegian Cup the following season and Spurkeland was given the Kniksen Award. [5] [3] [2]
He scored his first goal on 7 May 2005 in a Norwegian Cup game against Gneist. [2]
In 2006, he was loaned to Løv-Ham, then signed a two-year contract with Brann and was sent to play for Fyllingen Fotball [7] [8]
In 2008, Spurkeland was selected to play for the Firdalaget team [9] and was transferred to Førde, where he remained until 2017. [5] [3] [10]
Following a two-year break from football, Spurkeland signed with Askvoll Holmedal in 2019. [11]
He has been teaching kindergarten in Sunnfjord since 2016. [5] [3] [12] [13]