Trond Fredriksen


Trond Fredriksen is a football coach and former Norwegian footballer. He is a former football midfielder and former manager for Aalesunds FK.

Manager career

Ahead of the 2015 season, Fredriksen became assistant manager to the new Aalesund manager Harald Aabrekk. Aabrekk was sacked only a month into the league, and Fredriksen took over with Karl Oskar Fjørtoft as his assistant. Fredriksen managed Aalesund until being relegated from the 2017 Eliteserien, but was sacked after the 2017 season. In August 2018 he was hired as coach developer in city minnows Aksla IL.
Ahead of the 2019 season he moved to Eastern Norway as the new manager of Ull/Kisa. He was sacked here after the 2020 season. He worked in the Football Association of Norway for a period, before being hired by Vålerenga as a player developer ahead of the 2022 season.

Personal life

Trond Fredriksen's son Tengel Lia Fredriksen played for Aalesund 2 before joining Ull/Kisa in the summer of 2019. In the summer of 2022, he joined Vålerenga 2 before moving to Brattvåg in 2023. Tengel Lia Fredriksen was also capped once for Norway national under-17 [football team|Norway U17] in 2020.