Tobias Lauritsen (born 30 August 1997) is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a striker for Eredivisie side Sparta Rotterdam.
 Lauritsen playing for Sparta Rotterdam in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Tobias Lauritsen | ||
| Date of birth | 30 August 1997 | ||
| 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 | 76 | (28) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 November 2024 | |||
Career
editClub
editLauritsen 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
editClub
edit- As of match played 9 November 2024[12]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | Other | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Herkules | 2013 | Norwegian Third Division | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | – | 6 | 1 | |
| Urædd | 2013 | Norwegian Third Division | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | – | 9 | 4 | |
| 2014 | Norwegian Third Division | 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 | Norwegian Second Division | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 3 | 1 | |
| 2017 | Norwegian Third Division | 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 | 31 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1[b] | 1 | 33 | 13 | |
| 2024–25 | Eredivisie | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | |
| Total | 76 | 28 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 81 | 31 | ||
| Career total | 232 | 84 | 26 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 259 | 102 | ||
- ^ Includes Norwegian Football Cup, KNVB Cup
- ^ Appearance in Eredivisie European play-offs
Honours
editIndividual
- Eredivisie Team of the Month: November 2022,[13] August 2023[14]
References
edit- ^ "Drømmer om Odd". Telemarksavisa (in Norwegian). 2 April 2013.
- ^ "Klubber forsøker å hente Herkules-spillere". Telemarksavisa (in Norwegian). 16 May 2013.
- ^ "Ny Herkulesspiller til Urædd?". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 15 August 2013.
- ^ "Forer Odd med talenter". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 6 August 2014.
- ^ "Fotball-NM: Skotfoss - Odd 0-13" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 22 April 2015.
- ^ "Pors skal ha penger og spillere". Varden (in Norwegian). 20 June 2016.
- ^ "Lauritsen klar". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 10 September 2016.
- ^ "- Veldig synd for Tobias". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 20 September 2016.
- ^ "63 av 84 mål borte fra Pors siden i fjor". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Lauritsen tilbake i Odd" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 18 January 2018.
- ^ "NOREN LAURITSEN EN KITOLANO NAAR SPARTA" (in Dutch). Sparta Rotterdam. 23 June 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- ^ "Tobias Lauritsen". nifs.no (in Norwegian). Norsk Internesjonal Fotballstatistikk. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "Taylor Booth named as Eredivisie Player of the Month for November". Eredivisie. 30 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
- ^ "Nine clubs provide players for Eredivisie Team of the Month". Eredivisie. 3 September 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.