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Tom Nordlie

Personal information
Date of birth	(1962-03-02) 2 March 1962
Place of birth	Norway
Team information
Current team	Kongsvinger
Number	Manager
Managerial career
Years	Team
1988	Skedsmo (women)
1989	Løvenstad
1990–1991	Strømmen
1992	Bærum
1993–1994	Lørenskog
1995–1996	Strømmen IF
1997	Skjetten
1998–1999	Odd Grenland
2000	Vålerenga
2002–2003	Sandefjord
2004–2006	Start
2006	Viking
2006–2008	Lillestrøm
2008–2009	Kongsvinger
2009–2010	Fredrikstad
2011–	Kongsvinger

Tom Nordlie (born 2 March 1962) is a Norwegian football coach who has managed several top Norwegian football teams, and is currently the head coach of the Adecceoliga-club Kongsvinger.

Playing career

Nordlie was not a footballer himself, but he did play for the national water polo team.

He has his education from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.

Managing career

Nordlie is one of the most recognized coaches in Norway. His football philosophy is to be "insane but in control" and to "give a 100%, but also focus on one's tasks". Nordlie was never a great football player, however he has achieved several milestones as a manager. He explains this as follows "It is not necessary to have been a horse in order to be a good jockey".

Nordlie has experienced both ups and downs in his career.

Odd Grenland

In 1998, he led Odd Grenland to promotion to Tippeligaen, and to a respectable seventh place the next season.

Vålerenga

In 2000, he took over big club Vålerenga, but was fired after a disastrous season, that led to Vålerenga's relegation from Tippeligaen.

Sandefjord

After working as a football expert in Norwegian TV 2 for a while, Nordlie was hired as coach of Sandefjord. He led the club to the play-off in both 2002 and 2003, but lost both times.

Start

In 2004 he took over the struggling Start, and in his first season in charge, Start won the First Division and were promoted. In their return to Tippeligaen, Start had a great spring season, and took home the silver medal, only one point behind winner Vålerenga. Nordlie won the Kniksen award as coach of the year.

However, in 2006 Nordlie experienced a new down. Start had a catastrophic season opening and on 14 July 2006, Nordlie was fired from his job in Start. The reason was speculated to be working problems between Nordlie and his players.

Viking

After again working in TV 2 for a short period, Nordlie signed as the new manager of Viking on 14 September for the rest of the 2006 season, and he got the honor for saving Viking from being relegated to the First Division, when Viking beat Brann 5-0 in the last match of the 2006-season.

Lillestrøm

After Lillestrøm SK fired Uwe Rösler Nordlie was hired on 16 November. In his first season (2007) at Lillestrøm Nordlie achieved a fourth place in the league, but won the domestic cup. LSK's first real trophy in 18 years. The following 2008 season started catastrophically for Nordlie and LSK, and after 8 matches, and only 6 points, Nordlie was forced out of the club on the 29 May. Details of the internal rifts in the club under Nordlie have since made him almost universally despised among fans of LSK.

Kongsvinger

In August the same year he was hired as manager for struggling second-tier side Kongsvinger, which he led with success

Fredrikstad

until he was hired by Fredrikstad in August 2009. He had a disastrous few weeks at the club who were in mid-table safety when he arrived. By the end of the season he had guided them to relegation with the ultimate humiliation of being beaten by local rivals Sarpsborg 08 in the play-offs. A humiliating 6-1 defeat by Lech Poznan in Europe was matched by some abject performances in the league and Nordlie left shortly after relegation was confirmed in an atmosphere of much acrimony.

Back to Kongsvinger

• "Siste skudd-veksling". 29 October 2005. Retrieved 2007-10-02.

Private life

Nordlie has two children.