Tobias Lauritsen

Norwegian footballer (born 1997)
Tobias Lauritsen
Lauritsen playing for Sparta Rotterdam in 2023
Personal information
Full name Tobias Lauritsen
Date of birth (1997-08-30) 30 August 1997 (age 26)
Place of birth Norway
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Sparta Rotterdam
Number 9
Youth career
Herkules
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013 Herkules 4 (0)
2013–2014 Urædd 20 (11)
2014–2016 Odd 0 (0)
2016–2017 Pors 29 (33)
2018–2022 Odd 103 (18)
2022– Sparta Rotterdam 60 (21)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 April 2024

Tobias Lauritsen (born 30 August 1997) is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a striker for Eredivisie side Sparta Rotterdam.

Career

Club

Lauritsen started his career in Herkules and got his first-team debut in 2013. Midway in the season Herkules had to pull its team from league play, making the entire player roster available for transfer. Lauritsen went to Urædd FK together with Kevin Jablinski among others.[1][2][3] One year later, Lauritsen progressed to the regional giants Odds BK where Jablinski had already gone.[4]

Lauritsen made his Odd debut in the 2015 Norwegian Football Cup first round, coming off the bench and scoring in a 13–0 thrashing of Skotfoss.[5] He then mainly saw playing time for Odds BK 2, the B team, in the 2015 2. divisjon, playing one more first-team game, the first leg of the 2016 Norwegian Football Cup.

In the summer of 2016 Odd picked up the talent Stefan Mladenovic from another neighboring club Pors, and Pors wanted Lauritsen and other players in a player exchange deal. The deal did not go through, but in September 2016 Lauritsen joined Pors anyway.[6][7] Sustaining an injury in his debut game,[8] Lauritsen could not prevent relegation from the 2016 2. divisjon, but in the 2017 3. divisjon he scored 32 goals in 26 league games. As a result he was bought by his old club Odd.[9][10] He finally made his Eliteserien debut, as a substitute in the league opener against Haugesund, and in the first round of the 2018 Norwegian Football Cup he bagged four goals.

On 21 June 2022, Lauritsen signed a three-year contract with Dutch club Sparta Rotterdam that came into effect at the end of July 2022.[11]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 2 April 2024[12]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Herkules 2013 3. divisjon 4 0 2 1 – – 6 1
Urædd 2013 3. divisjon 9 4 0 0 – – 9 4
2014 3. divisjon 11 1 2 0 – – 13 1
Total 20 5 2 0 — – 22 5
Odd 2014 Eliteserien 0 0 0 0 – – 0 0
2015 Eliteserien 0 0 1 1 – – 1 1
2016 Eliteserien 0 0 0 0 – – 0 0
Total 0 0 1 1 — – 1 1
Pors Grenland 2016 2. divisjon 3 1 0 0 – – 3 1
2017 3. divisjon 26 32 2 1 – – 28 33
Total 29 33 2 1 — – 31 34
Odd 2018 Eliteserien 18 1 4 7 – – 22 8
2019 Eliteserien 21 0 6 6 – – 27 6
2020 Eliteserien 20 3 0 0 – – 20 3
2021 Eliteserien 29 8 3 1 – – 32 9
2022 Eliteserien 15 6 2 0 – – 17 6
Total 103 18 15 14 — – 118 32
Sparta Rotterdam 2022–23 Eredivisie 34 12 2 2 – 0 0 36 14
2023–24 Eredivisie 26 9 1 0 — 0 0 27 9
Total 60 21 3 2 — 0 0 63 23
Career total 216 77 25 17 0 0 0 0 241 96

Honours

Individual

References

  1. ^ "Drømmer om Odd". Telemarksavisa (in Norwegian). 2 April 2013.
  2. ^ "Klubber forsøker å hente Herkules-spillere". Telemarksavisa (in Norwegian). 16 May 2013.
  3. ^ "Ny Herkulesspiller til Urædd?". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 15 August 2013.
  4. ^ "Forer Odd med talenter". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 6 August 2014.
  5. ^ "Fotball-NM: Skotfoss - Odd 0-13" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 22 April 2015.
  6. ^ "Pors skal ha penger og spillere". Varden (in Norwegian). 20 June 2016.
  7. ^ "Lauritsen klar". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 10 September 2016.
  8. ^ "- Veldig synd for Tobias". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 20 September 2016.
  9. ^ "63 av 84 mål borte fra Pors siden i fjor". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 12 January 2018.
  10. ^ "Lauritsen tilbake i Odd" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 18 January 2018.
  11. ^ "NOREN LAURITSEN EN KITOLANO NAAR SPARTA" (in Dutch). Sparta Rotterdam. 23 June 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  12. ^ "Tobias Lauritsen". nifs.no (in Norwegian). Norsk Internesjonal Fotballstatistikk. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  13. ^ "Taylor Booth named as Eredivisie Player of the Month for November". Eredivisie. 30 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  14. ^ "Nine clubs provide players for Eredivisie Team of the Month". Eredivisie. 3 September 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
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