Marianne Pettersen

Marianne Pettersen

Personal information
Full name	Marianne Iren Pettersen
Date of birth	(1975-04-12) 12 April 1975
Place of birth	Oslo, Norway
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
0000–2001	Asker FK
2001–2003	Fulham Ladies
2003–0000	Asker FK
International career
1994–2003	Norway	98	(66)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 August 2011

Olympic medal record
Women's football
Representing Norway
	Sydney 2000	Team Competition
	Atlanta 1996	Team Competition

Marianne Iren Pettersen (born 12 April 1975 in Oslo) is a Norwegian footballer. She was a forward for the club Asker, whom she joined from Gjelleråsen after the 1996 season, and became the top scorer with 36 goals in the 1998 season of 18 matches. For the Norwegian national team, she debuted in 1994, scoring against Italy. Overall, she scored 66 goals in 98 international matches. She retired in 2003, after competing in the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics.

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.

Fulham

Pettersen rejected offers from American clubs to join Fulham Ladies, the only professional women's club in Europe, in January 2001. On her debut she scored a hat-trick in an 8–0 destruction of Manchester City in the fourth round of the FA Women's Cup. Later in 2001, Pettersen was then appointed as new captain. Pettersen would also be nominated for FIFA World Player of the Year award.

Honours

Olympics

• Atlanta 1996 - Bronze
• Sydney 2000 - Gold

FIFA Women's World Cup

• 1995 FIFA World Cup in Sweden - Gold