Jon Inge Høiland

Høiland was born and grew up in Fåberg, outside Lillehammer, and played for the local side during his youth Faaberg. At the age of eight he watched the semi-final of the 1985 Norwegian Football Cup where his brother Olav was played for the Faaberg-team that lost against Vålerenga. during his youth, before he left for Bryne in 1995. After two seasons with the club, he joined Kongsvinger where he played for two seasons before he travelled to the Swedish club IFK Göteborg ahead of the 1999 season, which was one of the biggest club in Scandinavia. In his two first seasons in Sweden, the club finished fourth in Allsvenskan, before they finished sixth in the 2001 season. IFK Göteborg were struggling in the bottom half of the table in the 2002 season. Høiland's contract expired after that season and he was offered a sixth month contract with the English club Portsmouth, but chose to join Malmö FF as a free agent in January 2003, and signed a three-year contract with the club. He played 86 matches during his four seasons with IFK Göteborg In his second season with the club he scored the decisive goal when Malmö claimed the 2004 Allsvenskan championship. When Niklas Skoog's penalty was saved by the goalkeeper, Høiland scored on the rebound, when Malmö won 1–0 against Elfsborg, while Halmstads BK who were leading the league ahead of the decisive match only managed a 1–1 draw against IFK Göteborg. Høiland was loaned out to the Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern in January 2006, until…

Høiland represented his country at youth international level and played a total of 18 matches for different youth teams before he made his debut for the under-21 team against Iceland U21 in July 1997. He was a part of the Norwegian squad at the 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, where the Norwegian team won bronze. He played a total of 14 matches for the under-21 team. Høiland was one of the best right-backs in Sweden between 2001 and 2003, but was not called up to the Norway national football team which Nils Johan Semb was national team coach. Semb's successor, Åge Hareide did however name Høiland in his first national team squad in January 2004. Hareide later claimed that Høiland was a player he wanted to buy while he was manager of Helsingborgs IF because of his offensive abilities as a right-back and also said that Høiland soon would challenge Christer Basma as the right-back on the national team. Høiland made his debut for Norway in the friendly match against Sweden in January 2004. After appearing in three friendly matches, Høiland was chosen to play as a right back in the 2006 World Cup qualifier against Belarus in September 2005, after Basma made a poor performance in the previous match against Italy. Høiland then became the first-choice as right-back on the national team. He scored his first and only goal for Norway on 1 April 2009, in the 3–2 victory over Finland. He played his 25th game for Norway against Montenegro on 29 May 2010, and he was…

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Allsvenskan: 2004 Stabæk

Tippeligaen: 2008 Norway

Norwegian Football Association Gold Watch