– AIK Football is proud to welcome Henning Berg as the new head coach. Of course, we cannot ignore his illustrious career as a player, but it is primarily his results as a coach that are decisive because we believe he is very suitable to be the new head coach of the men’s team. Henning is a league champion in several countries as a responsible coach, and he has extensive experience from various leagues, says the men’s team’s sporting director Thomas Berntsen.
– I am looking forward to becoming part of AIK. It is a proud and traditional club with fantastic supporters. AIK has great potential and I am really looking forward to developing and improving our performances and results together with the players, the rest of the coaching staff, administration and management. Together we will do everything we can to take AIK back to the top of Swedish football, says Henning Berg.
53-year-old Henning Berg, born on September 1, 1969, has a long and successful career as a player and coach. The playing career began in the Oslo club KFUM before he moved on to Vålerenga IF and Lillestrøm SK, both of which played in the Norwegian top league. During the January 1993 transfer window, Henning Berg signed a contract with English Blackburn Rovers FC. After the debut season, he took a regular place as a right-back and played, among other things, all the league matches when Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League in the 1994/1995 season after great drama, one point ahead of Manchester United FC. It was a total of five seasons at Blackburn Rovers and, among other things, 159 Premier League matches before Henning Berg was recruited by Manchester United in the summer of 1997. There were two Premier League titles with The Red Devils (1998/1999 and 1999/2000) and Henning was also involved in winning the Uefa Champions League and the FA Cup in 1999, but missed the finals due to injury.
At the start of his fourth season with Manchester United, Henning Berg returned to Blackburn Rovers. There were a total of 66 Premier League games for him at United. Rovers were playing in the English second division when Berg signed for them, but they finished second in the table which meant the Premier League in the 2001/2002 season. On 24 February 2002, Henning Berg captained Blackburn Rovers in the League Cup final against Tottenham Hotspur FC at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Rovers won 2-1 after Andy Cole’s winning goal in the 68th minute of the match and Berg was able to raise the dent in front of the 72,500 spectators after the final whistle. His playing career ended in Scottish Rangers FC in the 2003/2004 season. Henning Berg also played one hundred A international matches for Norway between 1992 and 2004 and accounted for nine goals. He represented Norway in the WC 1994 and 1998 and in the EC 2000.
Henning Berg’s coaching career began in 2005 in FK Lyn. In the fall of 2008, he signed for Lillestrøm SK where he worked for four years before Blackburn Rovers lured him with a three-year contract. However, it was only a short time as manager in England before he moved to Legia Warsaw. In the 2013/2014 season, the club won the Polish top league, Ekstraklasa, ten points ahead of KKS Lech Poznań. The following season, Lech Poznań got their revenge when they won the Ekstraklasa one point ahead of Legia Warsaw. Henning Berg also won the Polish Cup in 2014/2015. A year in Hungarian Videoton FC followed before Henning moved home to Norway in the summer of 2018 and the job as coach in Stabæk Fotball. Between 2019 and 2023, Henning Berg was a coach in the Cypriot clubs AC Omonia and Pafos FC. In 2019/2020, AC Omonia was leading the league when it was canceled due to Covid-19. In 2020/2021, AC Omonia won the league, for the first time in eleven years, and also the subsequent Super Cup.
Between 2005 and 2023, Henning Berg has been head coach in 502 competitive matches. In 2013/2014 he was named coach of the year in Poland and in 2020/2021 he became coach of the year in Cyprus.
2023-07-02 16:38:26
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