Rikard Norling

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rikard Norling
Occupation	Association Football Player
Date Of Birth	Jun 4, 1971(1971-06-04)
Age	53
Birthplace	Stockholm
Country	Sweden
Birth City	Stockholm County
Horoscope	Gemini

Rikard Norling Biography

Rikard Norling is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on June 4, 1971 in Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden. Rikard Norling, Swedish pronunciation: [‘rIk?ad ‘nu_lING] was born 4 June 1971. He is the Allsvenskan team’s manager.

Rikard Norling, 22, was forced to quit his professional playing career early due to injury. He began a coaching career. Norling was a manager at AIK from 2005 to 2005, after having previously managed IK Bele and Vasby IK. After helping AIK to return to Allsvenskan and finishing runners-up in 2006’s league as newcomers, he was fired by the club board. After a brief break, he returned to coaching and was named manager of Assyriska FF. Norling led Assyriska to fourth place in Superettan 2010. He was appointed as Malmo FF’s new manager half way through the 2011 season to replace Roland Nilsson. He won the Malmo FF league title in 2013 and the club was at the top for all three of Norling’s seasons. Norling was appointed manager of AIK in May 2016.

In January 2010, he joined Assyriska. In his first season, he guided the club to a fourth place in Sweden’s second tier division Superettan, the club ended five points short of the third place and promotion play-off position. His second season started well with the club being at the top table after eight matches. Norling managed the club for the last time in a Superettan fixture against Ängelholms FF on 29 May 2011 at Ängelholms IP which Assyriska lost 2–1.

The 2012 season was Norlings first full year season as Malmö FF manager. He guided the club to a 3rd place in the league and qualification to the qualifying rounds to the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League. Malmö FF was in the title race until the very last match where an away win against AIK would have sufficed to win the title as champions IF Elfsborg drew against Åtvidabergs FF as Malmö FF lost against AIK. After the 2012 season reports stated that there was a conflict of interests between Norling and the club’s director of sports Per Ågren, reports went as far as to say that the two men weren’t on speaking terms. It was said that Norling was unsatisfied with the way Ågren dealt with contract negotiations and the transfers of players. It was indicated that Norling was displeased by Ågren’s decision to sell striker Mathias Ranégie to Italian side Udinese during the summer transfer window. The rift between Norling and Ågren was confirmed by club captain Jiloan Hamad. On 16 November 2012 Malmö FF decided to hold a press conference to deal with the speculations and to clarify that both Norling and Ågren would stay at the club.

After the club’s demotion from the Allsvenskan soccer league, Norling was appointed manager of AIK on 11/11/04. The team was promoted quickly by Norling, who won the Superettan second level in style, clinching the berth while there were three more games. His team was able to win the league title for the first time in 38 years, even though AIK was runners-up at the end of 2006. Norling was at AIK from November 2006 until Charlie Granfelt, his manager, were both relieved.

Rikard Norling Net Worth

Rikard Norling is one of the richest Association Football Player from Sweden. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rikard Norling 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Norling began his coaching career at IF Brommapojkarna as a youth coach when he was 22 years old. He returned to IK Bele in 1994 to take over the senior team’s management. They reached the top of the league (Swedish soccer Division 4) and he was a welcome back. To train the youth team, he went to AIK, which he had supported his whole life. Norling was appointed his assistant by Stuart Baxter, the new AIK manager. They witnessed together the first league title for AIK after six years, in 1998.

AIK made it to the UEFA Champions League group stage in the following year. Norling reached the pinnacle in his coaching career. Baxter was suspended for verbally abusing the fourth official in the first round match against FC Barcelona. Norling saw himself as the manager when AIK faced Arsenal at Wembley Stadium. Norling is the only Swedish manager to have ever managed a Swedish team at Wembley Stadium. Norling was Baxter’s assistant for the 2000 campaign. He then returned to his position as youth team manager when Baxter resigned. He took over Vasby IK’s third division team in 2002. He managed the team to two consecutive league wins but they failed twice in promotion play- offs. He was named joint manager of Allsvenskan side GIF Sundsvall in 2004. They finished seventh, their second-best position.

On 25 May 2011 Malmö FF presented Norlings as the club’s new head coach. He succeeded Roland Nilsson who left the club to take over FC Copenhagen. Norling formally joined Malmö FF on 3 June after the players had returned from a brief leave, his first competitive was against his former club AIK at Råsunda on 12 June where Malmö FF lost 2–0 and his first home game was against Kalmar FF on 20 June where Norling saw his team win for the first time with 2–0. Norling joined the club with ten rounds played in the league and with the club in a fourth-place position. For his first season at the club Norling managed to guide the team to a fourth place in Allsvenskan. The club also qualified to the group stage of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League after being knocked out in the play-off round of the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League.

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Facts & Trivia

Rikard Ranked on the list of most popular Association Football Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sweden. Rikard Norling celebrates birthday on June 4 of every year.