Erling Haaland

Erling Braut Haaland (né Håland; born 21 July 2000) is a Norwegian professional footballer. He plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester City and the Norway national team.

Erling Haaland

Haaland playing for Manchester City in 2023
Personal information
Full name	Erling Braut Haaland[1]
Birth name	Erling Braut Håland[2]
Date of birth	(2000-07-21) 21 July 2000 (age 25)[3]
Place of birth	Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)[4]
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Manchester City
Number	9
Youth career
2005–2016	Bryne
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2015–2016	Bryne 2	14	(18)
2016–2017	Bryne	16	(0)
2017	Molde 2	4	(2)
2017–2019	Molde	39	(14)
2019–2020	Red Bull Salzburg	16	(17)
2020–2022	Borussia Dortmund	67	(62)
2022–	Manchester City	64	(61)
International career‡
2015	Norway U15	4	(4)
2016	Norway U16	17	(1)
2017	Norway U17	5	(2)
2017	Norway U18	6	(6)
2018	Norway U19	6	(6)
2019	Norway U20	5	(11)
2018	Norway U21	3	(0)
2019–	Norway	31	(27)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:30, 11 May 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:30, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Haaland was born in Leeds, England. His father, Alf-Inge Håland, is a former player who played as a defender and midfielder. Erling Haaland started his career at his hometown club Bryne in 2016. He moved to Molde in 2017 where he spent two years. In January 2019, Austrian club Red Bull Salzburg signed him on a five-year contract. In the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, he became the first teenager to score in five straight Champions League matches and the second teenager to score 10 goals in the competition. He won the Austrian Bundesliga twice and the Austrian Cup once with Salzburg. In December 2019, Haaland joined Borussia Dortmund for a fee reported in the region of €20 million.^[5]

According to statistics for the season that ended in 2025: The expected goals per 90 minutes of play (in the Premier League), is 0.78^[6] (as of the end of July); He has scored 22 goals in 31 games.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 11 May 2024

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National cup[a]		League cup[b]		Europe		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Bryne 2	2015[7]	3. divisjon	3	2	—		—		—		—		3	2
	2016[7]	3. divisjon	11	16	—		—		—		—		11	16
	Total		14	18	—		—		—		—		14	18
Bryne	2016[7]	1. divisjon	16	0	0	0	—		—		—		16	0
Molde 2	2017[7]	3. divisjon	4	2	—		—		—		—		4	2
Molde	2017[7]	Eliteserien	14	2	6	2	—		—		—		20	4
	2018[7]	Eliteserien	25	12	0	0	—		5[c]	4	—		30	16
	Total		39	14	6	2	—		5	4	—		50	20
Red Bull Salzburg	2018–19[8]	Austrian Bundesliga	2	1	2	0	—		1[c]	0	—		5	1
	2019–20[8]	Austrian Bundesliga	14	16	2	4	—		6[d]	8	—		22	28
	Total		16	17	4	4	—		7	8	—		27	29
Borussia Dortmund	2019–20[8]	Bundesliga	15	13	1	1	—		2[d]	2	—		18	16
	2020–21[8]	Bundesliga	28	27	4	3	—		8[d]	10	1[e]	1	41	41
	2021–22[8]	Bundesliga	24	22	2	4	—		3[d]	3	1[e]	0	30	29
	Total		67	62	7	8	—		13	15	2	1	89	86
Manchester City	2022–23[9]	Premier League	35	36	4	3	2	1	11[d]	12	1[f]	0	53	52
	2023–24[10]	Premier League	29	25	2	5	0	0	9[d]	6	2[g]	0	42	36
	Total		64	61	6	8	2	1	20	18	3	0	95	88
Career total			220	174	23	22	2	1	45	45	5	1	295	243

1. Includes Norwegian Football Cup, Austrian Cup, DFB-Pokal, FA Cup
2. Includes EFL Cup
3. Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
4. Appearances in UEFA Champions League
5. Appearance in DFL-Supercup
6. Appearance in FA Community Shield
7. One appearance in FA Community Shield, one in UEFA Super Cup

International

As of match played 26 March 2024^[11]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Norway	2019	2	0
	2020	5	6
	2021	8	6
	2022	8	9
	2023	6	6
	2024	2	0
Total		31	27

As of match played 26 March 2024

Norway score listed first, score column indicates score after each Haaland goal^[11]

List of international goals scored by Erling Haaland

No.	Date	Venue	Cap	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	4 September 2020	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway	3	Austria	1–2	1–2	2020–21 UEFA Nations League B	[12]
2	7 September 2020	Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland	4	Northern Ireland	2–1	5–1	2020–21 UEFA Nations League B	[13]
3					5–1
4	11 October 2020	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway	6	Romania	1–0	4–0	2020–21 UEFA Nations League B	[14]
5					3–0
6					4–0
7	2 June 2021	La Rosaleda Stadium, Málaga, Spain	11	Luxembourg	1–0	1–0	Friendly	[15]
8	1 September 2021	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway	13	Netherlands	1–0	1–1	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification	[16]
9	4 September 2021	Daugava Stadium, Riga, Latvia	14	Latvia	1–0	2–0	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification	[17]
10	7 September 2021	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway	15	Gibraltar	2–0	5–1	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification	[18]
11					3–0
12					5–1
13	25 March 2022	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway	16	Slovakia	1–0	2–0	Friendly	[19]
14	29 March 2022	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway	17	Armenia	1–0	9–0	Friendly	[20]
15					5–0
16	2 June 2022	Red Star Stadium, Belgrade, Serbia	18	Serbia	1–0	1–0	2022–23 UEFA Nations League B	[21]
17	5 June 2022	Friends Arena, Solna, Sweden	19	Sweden	1–0	2–1	2022–23 UEFA Nations League B	[22]
18					2–0
19	12 June 2022	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway	21	Sweden	1–0	3–2	2022–23 UEFA Nations League B	[23]
20					2–0
21	24 September 2022	Stožice Stadium, Ljubljana, Slovenia	22	Slovenia	1–0	1–2	2022–23 UEFA Nations League B	[24]
22	17 June 2023	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway	24	Scotland	1–0	1–2	UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying	[25]
23	20 June 2023	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway	25	Cyprus	2–0	3–1	UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying	[26]
24					3–0
25	12 September 2023	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway	26	Georgia	1–0	2–1	UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying	[27]
26	12 October 2023	AEK Arena, Larnaca, Cyprus	27	Cyprus	2–0	4–0	UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying	[28]
27					3–0

Honours

Red Bull Salzburg

• Austrian Bundesliga: 2018–19^[8]
• Austrian Cup: 2018–19^[8]

Borussia Dortmund

• DFB-Pokal: 2020–21^[29]

Manchester City

• Premier League: 2022–23^[4]
• FA Cup: 2022–23^[30]
• UEFA Champions League: 2022–23^[31]
• UEFA Super Cup: 2023^[32]

Norway U17

• Syrenka Cup: 2016^[33]

Individual

• European Golden Shoe: 2022–23^[34]
• Eliteserien Breakthrough of the Year: 2018^[35]
• ESPN Striker of the Year: 2022–23^[36]
• Austrian Footballer of the Year: 2019^[37]
• Austrian Bundesliga Player of the Season: 2019–20^[38]
• FIFA U-20 World Cup Golden Boot: 2019^[39]
• UEFA Champions League Breakthrough XI: 2019^[40]
• Bundesliga Player of the Season: 2020–21^[41]
• Bundesliga Player of the Month: January 2020, November 2020,^[42][43] April 2021,^[44] August 2021^[45]
• Bundesliga Rookie of the Month: January 2020, February 2020^[46]
• Bundesliga Goal of the Month: September 2021^[47]
• Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2020–21,^[48] 2021–22^[49]
• VDV Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2019–20,^[50] 2020–21,^[51] 2021–22^[52]
• kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2020–21,^[53] 2021–22^[54]
• FWA Footballer of the Year: 2022–23^[55]
• Premier League Player of the Season: 2022–23^[4]
• Premier League Young Player of the Season: 2022–23^[4]
• Premier League Golden Boot: 2022–23^[4]
• Premier League Player of the Month: August 2022, April 2023^[4]
• PFA Premier League Fans' Player of the Month: August 2022,^[56] September 2022,^[57] December 2022^[58]
• ESM Team of the Year: 2019–20^[59] 2022–23^[60]
• IFFHS Men's World Youth (U20) Team: 2020^[61]
• Golden Boy: 2020^[62]
• Golden Player Man Award: 2023^[63]
• Gullballen: 2020,^[64] 2021,^[65] 2022,^[66] 2023^[67]
• Kniksen's honour award: 2020^[68]
• Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year: 2020^[69]
• UEFA Champions League Squad/Team of the Season: 2020–21,^[70] 2022–23^[71]
• UEFA Champions League Forward of the Season: 2020–21^[72]
• UEFA Champions League top scorer: 2020–21,^[73] 2022–23^[74]
• UEFA Men's Player of the Year: 2022–23^[75]
• UEFA Nations League top scorer: 2020–21,^[76] 2022–23^[77]
• FIFA FIFPRO World 11: 2021,^[78] 2022,^[79] 2023^[80]
• IFFHS Men's World Team: 2022,^[81] 2023^[82]
• Manchester City Player of the Month: August 2022,^[83] September 2022,^[84] March 2023,^[85]
• Manchester City Player of the Season: 2022–23^[86]
• PFA Team of the Year: 2022–23 Premier League^[87]
• PFA Players' Player of the Year: 2022–23^[87]
• Gerd Müller Trophy: 2023^[88]
• Globe Soccer Best Player of the Year: 2023^[89]
• The Guardian Best Footballer in the World: 2023^[90]
• World Soccer Player of the Year: 2023^[91]
• FourFourTwo Player of the Year: 2022,^[92] 2023^[93]
• BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year: 2023^[94]
• IFFHS World's Best Player: 2023^[95]
• Onze d'Or: 2022–23^[96]
• Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year: 2024 Nominee^[97]