Nikolai Hopland
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Nikolai Søyset Hopland[1] | ||
Date of birth | 24 July 2004 | ||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Centre-back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Heerenveen | ||
Number | 17 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2016 | Aalesund | ||
2016–2018 | Rollon | ||
2019–2021 | Aalesund | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2021– | Aalesund | 67 | (1) |
2021–2023 | Aalesund 2 | 14 | (2) |
2022 | → Kristiansund (loan) | 2 | (0) |
2024– | → Heerenveen (loan) | 0 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2021 | Norway U17 | 2 | (0) |
2021–2022 | Norway U18 | 7 | (0) |
2022–2023 | Norway U19 | 15 | (0) |
2023– | Norway U21 | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 September 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 November 2023 |
Nikolai Søyset Hopland (born 24 July 2004) is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a centre-back for Eredivisie club Heerenveen on loan from Aalesund.
Club career
[edit]Hopland began his career with Aalesund, before representing a joint Aalesund and Rollon team in 2016.[2] He continued to play for Rollon for the next two years, also representing the club in children's futsal at the same time.[2]
He returned to Aalesund in 2019, and progressed through the academy to make his debut in the 2021 season.[2] The following season, following Aalesund's promotion to the Eliteserien, he was loaned to Kristiansund.[3] The loan was not successful, and he only made two appearances before returning to Aalesund.[2] He scored his first goal for Aalesund on 6 November 2022, the winning goal in a 2–1 Eliteserien victory over Lillestrøm.[4]
On 2 September 2024, Hopland moved to Heerenveen in the Netherlands on loan with an option to buy.[5]
International career
[edit]Hopland has represented Norway at under-17, under-18 and under-19 level.[2]
Career statistics
[edit]Club
[edit]Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Aalesund | 2021 | OBOS-ligaen | 14 | 0 | 3[a] | 1 | – | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | |
2022 | Eliteserien | 17 | 1 | 2[a] | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 19 | 1 | ||
2023 | 8 | 0 | 0[a] | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||
Total | 39 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 2 | ||
Aalesund 2 | 2021 | 3. divisjon | 5 | 1 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | ||
2022 | 8 | 1 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | ||||
Total | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | ||
Kristiansund (loan) | 2022 | Eliteserien | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
Career total | 54 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 4 |
- Notes
- ^ a b c Appearances in the Norwegian Cup
References
[edit]- ^ a b Nikolai Hopland at WorldFootball.net
- ^ a b c d e f Nikolai Hopland at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
- ^ "Kristiansund låner midtstopper fra AaFK" [Kristiansund borrows centre-backs from AaFK]. nettavisen.no (in Norwegian). 11 May 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
- ^ Gunnar Ansnes, Bjørn (6 November 2022). "Nikolai Søyset Hopland med sitt først Eliteseriemål" [Nikolai Søyset Hopland with his first Eliteserie goal]. todalen.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 29 March 2023.
- ^ "sc Heerenveen huurt Noors jeugdinternational Nikolai Hopland" [sc Heerenveen loans Norwegian youth international Nikolai Hopland] (in Dutch). Heerenveen. 2 September 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- ^ Nikolai Hopland at Soccerway
- 2004 births
- Living people
- Norwegian men's footballers
- Norway men's youth international footballers
- Norway men's under-21 international footballers
- Men's association football central defenders
- Norwegian Third Division players
- Norwegian First Division players
- Eliteserien players
- Eredivisie players
- Aalesunds FK players
- SK Rollon players
- Kristiansund BK players
- SC Heerenveen players
- Norwegian expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
- Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands