Knut Tørum

Knut Kjartan Tørum (born August 16, 1971 in Bergen) is a Norwegian football coach. He's a former manager for Moss, leading the team to the Tippeliga play-off's in 2005. He's also a former assistant coach for Stabæk.

In August 2006, Tørum (at the time the clubs assistant coach) took over as substitute head-coach for Rosenborg after Per Mathias Høgmo took a two month sick leave. His take-over was very successful starting with eight league wins in a row (a club record) and earned Tørum the title coach of the month for August and October 2006. Rosenborg stated that Høgmo would return to his job as the clubs head coach after the season, despite Tørums success. Tørum led Rosenborg in the last rounds of the premiership, and secured Rosenborg the goldmedals. On October 31, Per Matias Høgmo decided to retire as football-coach and quit his job in Rosenborg, and Tørum was offered the job as new head-coach in Rosenborg B.K. which he took. Tørum was awarded coach of the year for 2006.

He was not able to gain the same success in the 2007 domestic season, but Rosenborg managed to qualify for the UEFA Champions League where the club impressed in the group stage with a 1-1 draw away against Chelsea FC and beating Valencia CF 2-0 twice. He resigned the day after the latter match against Valencia.

Honours

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*Norwegian Premier League Champion: 2006

Individual

*Norwegian Premier League coach of the month: August 2006, October 2006
*Kniksen award: coach of the year in 2006

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NAME=Knut Kjartan Tørum
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Football (soccer) coach and former player
DATE OF BIRTH=August 16, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH=Bergen, Norway
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