Marianne Pettersen

Personal information
Full name	Marianne Iren Pettersen
Date of birth	(1975-04-12)12 April 1975 (age 50)
Place of birth	Oslo, Norway
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Position	Striker
Youth career
	Gjelleråsen
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1997–1999	Asker	44	(59)
2000	Athene Moss	17	(19)
2001–2002	Fulham Ladies
2002–2003	Asker	36	(36)
2007	Asker	17	(8)
International career
1994	Norway U20	10	(5)
1994–2003	Norway	98	(66)
Medal record Women'sfootball Representing Norway 2000 Sydney Team Competition 1996 Atlanta Team Competition
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marianne Iren Pettersen (born 12 April 1975) is a Norwegianfootballer. She was a striker for the clubAsker, whom she joined fromGjelleråsen after the1996 season, and became the top scorer with 36 goals in the1998 season of 18 matches.

For theNorwegian national team, Pettersen debuted in 1994, scoring against Italy.^[1]

In the1995 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 Germanyin the tournament final.

In 1997 when she was 22 she created a record in theWomen's Euros when she scored four goals in a single match. The match was against Denmark at Lillestrøm and the final score was 5-0.^[2]

Overall, she scored 66 goals in 98 international matches. She retired in 2003, after competing in the1996 Summer Olympics and winning gold at the2000 Summer Olympics.^[3]

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.

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No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	10 June 1995	Gävle,Sweden	Canada	4–0	7–0	1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
2.				6–0
3.	18 June 1995	Solna, Sweden	Germany	2–0	2–0
4.	19 September 1995	Ulefoss, Norway	Slovakia	3–0	17–0	UEFA Women's Euro 1997 qualifying
5.				4–0
6.				5–0
7.				7–0
8.				11–0
9.				12–0
10.	17 March 1996	Quarteira,Portugal	Sweden	2–0	4–0	1996 Algarve Cup
11.				3–0
12.	25 May 1996	Espoo,Finland	Finland	2–0	2–0	UEFA Women's Euro 1997 qualifying
13.	6 July 1996	Kolbotn, Norway	Finland	4–0	7–0
14.	25 July 1996	Washington, D.C., United States	Japan	1–0	4–0	1996 Summer Olympics
15.				4–0
16.	31 August 1996	Levice,Slovakia	Slovakia	3–0	4–0	UEFA Women's Euro 1997 qualifying
28.	30 June 1997	Lillestrøm, Norway	Denmark	1–0	5–0	UEFA Women's Euro 1997
29.				2–0
30.				3–0
31.				5–0
32.	31 August 1997	Oslo, Norway	Australia	2–0	7–1	Friendly
33.				3–0
34.				4–0
35.				6–1
36.	18 January 1998	Guangzhou,China	China	2–1	2–1	1998 Four Nations Tournament
37.	21 January 1998		Sweden	1–0	2–1
38.	20 June 1999	Foxborough, United States	Russia	2–0	2–1	1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
39.	23 June 1999	Landover, United States	Canada	6–1	7–1
40.	30 June 1999	San Jose, United States	Sweden	2–0	3–1
41.	7 March 2000	Norwich,England	England	1–0	3–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2001 qualifying
42.	7 May 2000	Moss, Norway	Portugal	3–0	5–0
43.				5–0
44.	4 June 2000		England	3–0	8–0
45.				7–0
46.				8–0
47.	17 September 2000	Canberra,Australia	Nigeria	3–1	3–1	2000 Summer Olympics
48.	20 September 2000		China	1–0	2–1
64.	11 September 2003	Kolbotn, Norway	Denmark	1–0	1–1	UEFA Women's Euro 2005 qualifying
65.	24 September 2003	Washington, D.C., United States	Brazil	1–2	1–4	2003 FIFA Women's World Cup
66.	27 September 2003	Foxborough, United States	South Korea	4–0	7–1

Pettersen rejected offers from American clubs to joinFulham Ladies, the only professional women's club in Europe, in January 2001. On her debut she scored ahat-trick in an 8–0 destruction ofManchester City in the fourth round of theFA Women's Cup.^[4] Later in 2001, Pettersen was then appointed as the new captain.^[5] Pettersen was nominated for FIFA World Player of the Year award.^[6]

Fulham

• FA Women's Premier League National Division:2002–03
• FA Women's Cup:20022003
• FA Women's Premier League Cup:2002,2003

Norway

• Atlanta 1996 – Bronze
• Sydney 2000 – Gold

• 1995 FIFA World Cup in Sweden – Gold

• Norwegian women's footballers
• 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen
• 1975 births
• Living people
• Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Olympic footballers for Norway
• Olympic gold medalists for Norway
• Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
• Fulham F.C. Women players
• FA Women's National League players
• Asker Fotball (women) players
• Athene Moss players
• Toppserien players
• Olympic medalists in football
• Norway women's international footballers
• 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup players
• 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players
• 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players
• FIFA Women's World Cup–winning players
• Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in England
• Norwegian expatriate women's footballers
• Expatriate women's footballers in England
• Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Women's association football forwards
• Footballers from Oslo

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