Vegard Skogheim

Vegard Skogheim
Personal information
Date of birth (1966-04-28) 28 April 1966 (age 58)
Place of birth Hamar, Norway
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 HamKam (scout)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1983–1988 HamKam 112 (19)
1988–1989 Werder Bremen 3 (0)
1990–1995 HamKam 122 (24)
1995–1998 Viking 60 (12)
1999–2000 HamKam 29 (11)
Total 326 (66)
International career
1982 Norway U-16[1] 3 (1)
1982–1983 Norway U-19[1] 8 (0)
1984–1987 Norway U-21[1] 18 (1)
1984–1992 Norway 13 (1)
Managerial career
2001 Brumunddal
2002 Lillehammer
2003–2006 Kongsvinger
2007–2009 HamKam (assistant)
2009–2014 HamKam
2015–2018 Ullensaker/Kisa
2020–2022 Asker
2023– HamKam (scout)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vegard Skogheim (born 28 April 1966) is a Norwegian football coach and former player who played as a midfielder.

During his active career, he played for HamKam, Werder Bremen and Viking.[2] He had a total of 197 matches and 36 goals in the Norwegian Premier League. Skogheim played 13 matches for the Norway national football team and scored a goal.

As a coach, he has been in charge of Lillehammer and Brumunddal, and has been managing Kongsvinger with success, securing promotion from Second Division in 2003, and almost repeating the feat in First Division in 2004. During winter 2006, Kongsvinger informed him, they would not sign him up for another contract, and thus he made his exit, joining former Lillestrøm coach Arne Erlandsen in his old club HamKam on 13 November 2006. Here, he acted as a player developer and assistant coach. On 11 June 2009, Skogheim was appointed new head coach of HamKam.[3] He resigned after three games of the 2014 Norwegian First Division.[4]

After Asker was relegated from the 2022 2. divisjon, Skogheim was sacked as head coach. He returned to Hamkam as a scout.[5]

  1. ^ a b c Vegard Skogheim (in Norwegian). N3Sport.no. Retrieved 22 April 2013
  2. ^ Vegard Skogheim at WorldFootball.net
  3. ^ "Erlandsen er ferdig" [Erlandsen is finished]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 11 June 2009. Archived from the original on 14 June 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  4. ^ Stensrud, Vivian; Rostad, Kristian (23 April 2014). "Sliten Skogheim trekker seg som trener" (in Norwegian). NRK Hedmark og Oppland. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  5. ^ "Velkommen hjem, Vegard!" (in Norwegian). Hamkam. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2023.