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{{Short description|Norwegian football coach (born 1981)}}
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|                name = Ingvild Stensland
|               image = Ingvild Stensland.jpg
|             caption= Stensland in 2012
|          image_size = 200
|            fullname = Ingvild Stensland
|          birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|8|3|df=y}}
|         birth_place = [[Farsund]], Norway
|              height = {{height|m=1.76|precision=0}}
|            position = [[Midfielder]]
|         currentclub =
|          clubnumber = 
|          youthyears1 = 1987–1998
|          youthclubs1 = [[Lyngdal IL]]
|               years1 = 1998–1999
|               clubs1 = [[FK Donn|Donn]]
|               years2 = 2000–2002
|               clubs2 = [[Athene Moss]]
|               years3 = 2002–2007
|               clubs3 = [[Kolbotn Fotball|Kolbotn]]
|               years4 = 2007–2009
|               clubs4 = [[Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC|Göteborg]]
|               years5 = 2009–2011
|               clubs5 = [[Olympique Lyonnais Féminin|Lyon]]
|               years6 = 2011
|               clubs6 = [[Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC|Göteborg]]
|               years7 = 2012–2016
|               clubs7 = [[Stabæk Fotball Kvinner|Stabæk]]
|               caps1 =
|              goals1 =
|               caps2 =
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|               caps3 = 120
|              goals3 = 9
|               caps4 = 38
|              goals4 = 4
|               caps5 = 20
|              goals5 = 3
|               caps6 = 6
|              goals6 = 0
|               caps7 = 13
|              goals7 = 8
|      nationalyears1 = 2003–2016
|       nationalteam1 = [[Norway women's national football team|Norway]]
|       nationalcaps1 = 144
|      nationalgoals1 = 10
|            pcupdate = 7 November 2012
|            ntupdate = 14:16, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
| medaltemplates = 
{{Medal|Sport|Women's [[Association football|football]]}}
{{Medal|Country|{{NOR}}}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[UEFA Women's Championship]]}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[UEFA Women's Euro 2005|England 2005]]|[[UEFA Women's Euro 2005 squads#Norway|Team]]}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[UEFA Women's Euro 2013|Sweden 2013]]|[[UEFA Women's Euro 2013 squads#Norway|Team]]}}
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'''Ingvild Stensland''' (born 3 August 1981) is a former [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[Association football|footballer]] who, from August 2022, is one of the assistance coaches on [[Norway women's national football team|Norway women's national team]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Fotballforbund |first=Norges |title=Hege Riise ny landslagssjef |url=https://www.fotball.no/landslag/norge-a-kvinner/2022/hege-riise-ny-landslagssjef/ |access-date=2022-08-26 |website=fotball.no - Norges Fotballforbund |language=no}}</ref>

As a player she last played for [[Stabæk Fotball Kvinner|Stabæk FK]] in the [[Toppserien]]. She played as a [[midfielder]] and was a member of, and for several years also the captain of, the [[Norway women's national football team|Norway women's national team]], making her debut in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fotball.no/Community/Profil/?fiksId=2728360 |title=Official Norway Football Association player profile |access-date=9 May 2012 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120509142255/http://www.fotball.no/Community/Profil/?fiksId=2728360 |archive-date=9 May 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> She has also played in the French [[Division 1 Féminine|Division 1]] and the Swedish [[Damallsvenskan]] for [[Olympique Lyonnais Féminin|Lyon]] and [[Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC|Göteborg FC]].

==Playing career==
Stensland was born in [[Farsund]] in the south of [[Norway]] and grew up at nearby [[Lyngdal]] showing her talent for football at an early age. She grew up in a footballing family. Her father was a coach, while her older sisters played at [[Lyngdal IL]]. As a youth, Stensland trained with her male counterparts at Lyngdal until she reached her teens. She had a successful career with Lyngdal before starring for clubs such as [[FK Donn]], [[Athene Moss]], and [[Kolbotn Fotball|Kolbotn]] in her home country Norway, [[Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC]] in Sweden, and Lyon in France. In 2005, Stensland was named the [[Toppserien]] Player of the Year. She has also been nominated for the [[FIFA World Player of the Year|FIFA Women's World Player of the Year]] award on four occasions.

As a national team player, Stensland played in the [[2005 UEFA Women's Championship|2005 European Championships]] guiding her team to a second-place finish after falling 3–1 to the [[Germany women's national football team|Germans]] in the final. Since making her debut in 2003, Stensland has become a regular in the team appearing at the [[2007 FIFA Women's World Cup]], the [[2008 Summer Olympics]], [[UEFA Women's Euro 2009]] and the [[2011 FIFA Women's World Cup]].

At the beginning of 2009, Ingvild Stensland signed a contract with top French club, Olympique Lyonnaise. At about the same time she took over as captain of the national team, an appointment that was confirmed by the new chief trainer, Eli Landsem, at the end of 2009.<ref>[http://womensfootball.eu/forum/index.php/topic,4523.msg41622.html#msg41622 Stensland the captain]</ref> In 2011, she returned to Göteborg, with whom she won the [[Svenska Cupen (women)|Svenska Cupen]].<ref>[https://int.soccerway.com/matches/2011/10/29/sweden/damer-svenska-cupen/kopparbergs-goteborg-football-club/tyreso-ff/1211655/ Line-ups of the final] in Soccerway</ref> After the end of the season she returned to Norway to play for [[Stabæk Fotball Kvinner|Stabæk FK]].<ref>[http://wsoccernews.com/fullStory.php?action=viewStory&id=2964 More shock departures from Kopparbergs/Göteborg, Stensland and Sembrant leave] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906124641/http://wsoccernews.com/fullStory.php?action=viewStory&id=2964 |date=6 September 2018 }} W Soccer News</ref>

== Coaching career ==
In January 2018, Stensland got hired as player developer in [[Stabæk Fotball Kvinner|Stabæk]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=NTB |first=(NTB) |date=2018-01-09 |title=(+) Ingvild Stensland ny toppspillerutvikler for Stabæks kvinner |url=https://www.rbnett.no/sport/i/GQKMnQ/ingvild-stensland-ny-toppspillerutvikler-for-stabaeks-kvinner |access-date=2022-08-26 |website=rbnett.no |language=no}}</ref> In 2022, she continued her career as coach of the [[Norway women under-23 national football team|Norway women under-23 national team]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fotballforbund |first=Norges |title=Stensland blir U23-landslagstrener |url=https://www.fotball.no/landslag/norge-kvinner-u-23/2021/stensland-blir-u23-landslagstrener/ |access-date=2022-08-26 |website=fotball.no - Norges Fotballforbund |language=no}}</ref> However, in August 2022, she became one of the assistance coaches for the [[Norway women's national football team|Norway national team]], together with [[Monica Knudsen]], with [[Hege Riise]] as the head coach.<ref name=":0" />

==Honours==

===Individual===
* 2005 Toppserien Player of the Year
* 2008 Norwegian Women's Player of the Year (NISO)<ref>[http://fotball.adressa.no/kvinner/article122403.ece Jeg er kjempestolt]</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category}}
*[http://www.snl.no/Ingvild_Stensland Entry] in [[Store norske leksikon]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080515203842/http://www.goteborgfc.se/Fotboll/kgfc.nsf/0/07C2D3A1902DEE3BC125727A00362F3B Kopparberg/ Göteborg player profile page]

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