Marianne Pettersen

Personal information
Full name	Marianne Iren Pettersen
Date of birth	(1975-04-12) 12 April 1975
Place of birth	Oslo, Norway
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1997–1999	Asker FK	44	(59)
2000	Athene Moss	17	(19)
2001–2002	Fulham Ladies
2002–2003	Asker FK	36	(36)
2007	Asker FK	17	(8)
International career
1994	Norway U20	10	(5)
1994–2003	Norway	98	(66)
Medal record Women's football Representing  Norway 2000 Sydney Team Competition 1996 Atlanta Team Competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 July 2017

Marianne Iren Pettersen (born 12 April 1975) is a Norwegian footballer. She was a forward for the club Asker, whom she joined from Gjelleråsen after the 1996 season, and became the top scorer with 36 goals in the 1998 season of 18 matches.

Career

For the Norwegian national team, Pettersen debuted in 1994, scoring against Italy.

In the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup held in Sweden, she scored three times to help the Norwegian team win its first World Cup, including the second goal in Norway's 2-0 win over Germany in the tournament final.

In 1999 when she was 22 she created a record in the Women's Euros when she scored four goals in a single match. The match was against Denmark at Lillestrom and the final score was 5-0.^[1]

Overall, she scored 66 goals in 98 international matches. She retired in 2003, after competing in the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics.^[2]

In 2007, she rejoined Asker as the assistant trainer and began playing again, as a reserve striker. On 19 May the same year she took the record as the highest scorer in the elite Norwegian league, the Toppserien, with 147 goals to that date.

International goals

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	30 June 1997	Åråsen Stadion, Lillestrøm, Norway	Denmark	1–0	5–0	UEFA Women's Euro 1997
2.				2–0
3.				3–0
4.				5–0
5.	7 March 2000	Carrow Road, Norwich, England	England	1–0	3–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2001 qualifying
6.	7 May 2000	Melløs stadion, Moss, Norway	Portugal	3–0	5–0
7.				5–0
8.	4 June 2000		England	3–0	8–0
9.				7–0
10.				8–0
66.	11 September 2003	Sofiemyr Stadion, Kolbotn, Norway	Denmark	1–0	1–1	UEFA Women's Euro 2005 qualifying

Fulham

Pettersen rejected offers from American clubs to join Fulham Ladies, the only professional women's club in Europe, in January 2001. On her debut she scored a hat-trick in an 8–0 destruction of Manchester City in the fourth round of the FA Women's Cup.^[3] Later in 2001, Pettersen was then appointed as the new captain.^[4] Pettersen was nominated for FIFA World Player of the Year award.^[5]

Honours

Fulham

• FA Women's Premier League National Division: 2002–03
• FA Women's Cup: 2002 2003
• FA Women's Premier League Cup: 2002, 2003

Norway

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