Gøran Sørloth

Gøran Sørloth
Personal information
Full name Gøran Sørloth
Date of birth (1962-07-16) 16 July 1962
Place of birth Kristiansund, Norway
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Striker
Youth career
1979–1981 Rissa
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1981–1984 Strindheim
1985–1989 Rosenborg 83 (30)
1989 Borussia Mönchengladbach 5 (0)
1989–1993 Rosenborg 91 (44)
1993–1994 Bursaspor 24 (4)
1994–1995 Viking 35 (7)
National team
1985–1994 Norway 55 (15)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Gøran Sørloth (born 16 July 1962 in Kristiansund) is a former footballer from Norway. He was one of the best strikers in Norwegian football during the late eighties and early nineties.

Club career

In the Norwegian Premier League he scored 74 goals in 174 matches for Rosenborg, with which he became league champion five times.

Sørloth joined Rosenborg from Strindheim in 1985. Two years later he moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach in Germany, but the spell was unsuccessful and hence short, and Sørloth returned to Rosenborg. In 1993 he once again tried his luck abroad, in Turkish club Bursaspor, but he left in 1994 to play for Viking the remainder of his career.

International career

In addition, Sørloth scored 15 goals in 55 matches for Norway. Sørloth was a part of the Norwegian 1994 FIFA World Cup squad, and played one match during the tournament. Time would show that this was his last international match.

Personal life

His son Alexander is also a professional footballer.

Honours

Club

Rosenborg BK

Individual

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