Jógvan Martin Olsen

Jógvan Martin Olsen (born 10 July 1961 in Toftir, Faroe Islands) is a retired football player and football manager. He is the manager of ÍF Fuglafjørður since October 2015. He was the head coach of the Faroe Islands national football team.[1]

Jógvan Martin Olsen
Jógvan Martin Olsen coaching Víkingur Gøta in 2010.
Personal information
Full name Jógvan Martin Olsen
Date of birth (1961-07-10) 10 July 1961
Place of birth Toftir, Faroe Islands
Club information
Current team
 ÍF Fuglafjørður
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1979–1993 B68 145 (23)
1994–1995 LÍF Leirvík 21 (6)
1996–97 B68 II 4 (1)
Teams managed
1996–2005 Faroe Islands (assistant)
2002–2004 NSÍ Runavík
2006–2008 Faroe Islands
2009–2013 Víkingur Gøta
2014 B68
2016– ÍF Fuglafjørður
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing

Jógvan Martin Olsen is a former football player. He played with B68 Toftir from 1978 to 1993 and again from 1996 to 1997 and for LÍF Leirvík 1994 and 1995.[2] Three times Olsen won the national Faroese championship with B68 Toftir: 1984, 1985 and 1992.[3]

Manager career

Olsen was the assistant coach of the Faroe Islands national football team during the reign of Allan Simonsen and Henrik Larsen (both from Denmark) in the period 1996-2005. From 2002 to 2004 he was also the manager of NSÍ Runavík.[4] In 2005 Olsen was named new head coach of the Faroe Islands national football team. He resigned on 29 September 2008.[5]

In 2013 Jógvan Martin Olsen has announced that he will step down as coach at the end of the season and have a year off from football.[6] In October 2015 he was appointed as manager of ÍF Fuglafjørður.[7]

Manager

Updated 16 June 2016

Team Nat From To Record
G W D L Win %
Faroe Islands 2006 2008 20 0 1 19 000.00


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References
  1. Football.fo Archived 28 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "B68.fo". Archived from the original on 26 March 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  3. Nes.fo
  4. "B68.fo". Archived from the original on 26 March 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  5. Nes.fo
  6. Soccer and Equipment
  7. Arge, Tróndur (3 October 2015). "Jógvan Martin verður venjari" (in Faroese). in.fo. Retrieved 20 November 2015.


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