Heidi Ellingsen

Norwegian footballer (born 1998)

Heidi Ellingsen
Personal information
Ellingsen with Norway in 2015
Full name	Heidi Elisabeth Ellingsen^[1]
Date of birth	(1998-07-28) 28 July 1998 (age 25)^[2]
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)^[3]
Position(s)	Midfielder^[2]
Team information
Current team	Växjö
Youth career
–2012	Lier
2013	Lyn
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2013–2016	Lyn	67	(2)
2017–2018	Stabæk	38	(3)
2019–2020	Lillestrøm	24	(0)
2021–2022	Linköping	45	(2)
2023–	Växjö	14	(0)
International career^‡
2013	Norway U-15	4	(0)
2014	Norway U-16	8	(0)
2014–2015	Norway U-17	12	(1)
2015–2017	Norway U-19	13	(1)
2018–2022	Norway U-23	12	(0)
2019–2021	Norway	5	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 September 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20 September 2023^[1]

Heidi Elisabeth Ellingsen (born 28 July 1998) is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Damallsvenskan club Växjö and the Norway national team.^[4]^[5]

Club career

Ellingsen played in Lier IL growing up before she went to Lyn.^[6] She became part of a very good age-specific team in Lyn, together with Frida Maanum and Andrea Willmann, among others. The team won both the Dana Cup and the Norway Cup in 2014.^[7] She played in the 1st division for Lyn from 2013 to 2016. In 2015, she was on several training stays with the big German club VfL Wolfsburg.^[8]

Before the 2017 season, she went to Stabæk in the Toppserien, where she quickly became an important player in the team. After two seasons in Stabæk, she signed for LSK Kvinner in October 2018.^[9]

In LSK Kvinner, she was designated as the one to replace Ingrid Syrstad Engen, but in Syrstad Engen's last match for the club, Ellingsen suffered an ankle injury after being overstepped.^[10] After three and a half months out with injury, she was back in September 2019, but shortly after she was back, she tore her Achilles in training.^[11] Thus, almost the entire 2019 season was spent with injuries.

In January 2021, she signed a two-year contract with Swedish club Linköping FC.^[12]

In December 2022, it became known that she had signed a one-year contract with Växjö DFF.

National team career

Ellingsen has international matches for J16, U17, U19, U23 and the Norwegian senior national team.

She was called up to the Norwegian senior national team for the first time in February 2019, after there was a withdrawal from the squad for the Algarve Cup.^[13] On 27 February 2019, she made her debut for the senior national team against Denmark during the Algarve Cup.^[1]

Merits

LSK

Toppserien : 2019
Norwegian Cup : 2019

Norway

Algarve Cup : 2019

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Heidi Ellingsen at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
^ ^a ^b "Heidi Ellingsen | | UEFA Women's EURO". UEFA.com. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
^ "Profile of H. Ellingsen". haxthaus.com. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
^ Heidi Ellingsen at Soccerway. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
^ "Växjö DFF". vaxjodff.se. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
^ Styve, Stein (2020-08-10). "Heidi (22) er tilbake etter skademarerittet: – Har gjort meg sterkere – og mer voksen". Lierposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2023-05-01.
^ Jacobsen, Arild (2014-08-03). "Lyns finalehelt drømmer om Tyskland". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2023-05-01.
^ Nilsen, Jostein (2015-09-04). "Følges tett av en tysk storklubb". Drammens Tidende (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2023-05-01.
^ Gustavsen, Tom (2018-10-26). "Riise om ny signering: – Liker at hun vil ta opp konkurransen med landslagsspillerne". Romerikes Blad (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2023-05-01.
^ Holterhuset, Martin (2019-09-07). "Ble skadet på verst tenkelig tidspunkt: – Var veldig bitter". Romerikes Blad (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2023-05-01.
^ Sødal, Per Morten (2019-09-11). "– Jeg mistenkte hva det var. Det var mer sjokkerende enn vondt". Romerikes Blad (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2023-05-01.
^ "Linköpings FC värvar norska landslagsspelaren Heidi Ellingsen". Linköping FC (in Swedish). 2021-01-07. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
^ Nilsen, Jostein (2019-02-26). "Heidi (20) fra Lier tatt ut på A-landslaget: – Jeg ble jo litt sjokkert". Drammens Tidende (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2023-05-01.