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HAALAND

Erling Braut Haaland
NORWAY · NOR · FORWARD · #9
21 JUL 2000 · Molde · Red Bull Salzburg · Borussia Dortmund · Manchester City
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🌎 WORLD CUP RECORD

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PACE 86
SHOOTING 91
PASSING 70
DRIBBLING 80
DEFENDING 45
PHYSICAL 88

⚡ DEFINING MOMENTS

▲ 2019 · A Hat-Trick on Demand
Nine minutes into his Champions League debut for Red Bull Salzburg, Haaland had a hat-trick against Genk. He finished that group stage with eight goals and announced himself to the continent before most of it had learned to spell his surname.
▲ 2023 · The Record That Stood for Decades
In his first season at Manchester City he scored 36 Premier League goals, two more than the marks Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole had set across a 42-game campaign. His 52 in all competitions underwrote a Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League treble.
▲ 2025 · Five Past Moldova
Haaland scored five and assisted two in an 11-1 demolition of Moldova, the first male European player to score five in a World Cup qualifier since Hans Krankl in 1977. It was the loudest note in a campaign Norway won at a canter.

📜 CAREER TIMELINE

2019
Signed for Red Bull Salzburg and scored a hat-trick on his Champions League debut.
2020
Joined Borussia Dortmund in the January window and kept scoring at better than a goal a game.
2022
Moved to Manchester City and made his Norway shirt the focal point of a young national side.
2023
Broke the Premier League single-season scoring record with 36 goals and completed a continental treble.
2024
Overtook Jorgen Juve's 1937 mark to become Norway's all-time leading scorer at the age of 24.
2025
Scored 16 goals in 2026 qualifying as Norway booked their first World Cup since 1998.
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PROF. INKSWORTH:

On the question of goals Haaland has long since stopped being a debate: a Champions League hat-trick on debut, a Premier League record that stood since the era of Shearer and Cole, a treble, and now the standing of Norway's most prolific forward in nearly a century. The one line his ledger has never carried is a World Cup appearance, for the simple reason that Norway had not reached one since 1998. The archive opens that page for the first time in 2026 — a maiden tournament for a 25-year-old who arrives with everything proven except this.

  • He was born in Leeds in 2000, while his father Alf-Inge was playing for Leeds United in the Premier League.
  • His 36 Premier League goals in 2022-23 are the most ever scored in a single season of the competition.
  • He is Norway's all-time leading scorer and the fastest player to reach 50 international goals, doing so in 46 caps.
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