Yaw Paintsil

Norwegian footballer (born 1999)

Yaw Paintsil
Personal information
Full name	Winston Robin Yaw Paintsil
Date of birth	(1999-08-19) 19 August 1999 (age 24)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Tromsø
Number	17
Youth career
2004–2016	Årvoll
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2016–2017	Årvoll	15	(9)
2022–2022	Kjelsås	84	(16)
2023–	Tromsø	27	(5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 April 2024

Yaw Paintsil (born 19 August 1999) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Tromsø IL.

Career

Hailing from Oslo, Paintsil began playing in the club Årvoll IL at the age of 5. Paintsil was also accepted into law school, having taken the law course in upper secondary school and watched the TV series Suits. He did not play football professionally, but moved on from Årvoll to the third-tier club Kjelsås.^[1]

In Kjelsås, he eventually showed enough promise to be signed by Tromsø IL in August 2022, effective from the end of the year. Paintsil would become fully professional, and quit his current part-time job as a front desk clerk in a law firm.^[1] Paintsil made his Eliteserien debut in April 2023 at home against Molde.^[2] After his first goal for Tromsø, Paintsil, who is of Ghanaian descent, was praised by several Ghanaian news outlets.^[3]^[4]

Career Statistics

As of 11 April 2024^[2]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			National cup		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Årvoll	2016	4. divisjon	12	8	1	0	1^[a]	1	14	9
	2017	4. divisjon	3	1	0	0	—		3	1
	Total		15	9	1	0	1	1	17	10
Kjelsås	2017	2. divisjon	3	0	0	0	—		3	0
	2018		11	0	0	0	—		11	0
	2019		10	5	1	0	—		11	5
	2020		13	3	0	0	—		13	3
	2021		26	6	2	0	—		28	6
	2022		22	2	3	0	—		25	2
	Total		85	16	6	0	—		91	16
Tromsø	2023	Eliteserien	26	5	4	0	—		30	5
	2024	Eliteserien	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
	Total		27	5	5	0	0	0	32	5
Career total			127	30	12	0	1	0	140	31

^ Appearance in 4. divisjon play-offs

References

^ ^a ^b Lübeck, even (25 August 2022). "Yaw (23) jobber som resepsjonist i et advokatfirma. Nå blir han proff fotballspiller: – Gleder meg veldig". Nordre Aker Budstikke (in Norwegian). Retrieved 28 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b Yaw Paintsil at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
^ "Young Ghanaian striker Yaw Paintsil emerges as star for Tromsø with match-winning performance". Ghanasoccernet. 1 May 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
^ "Ghanaian forward Yaw Paintsil over the moon after netting winning goal for Tromsø". FootballGhana. 1 May 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023.