Ane Stangeland Horpestad

Ane Stangeland Horpestad

With Klepp IL in 2007
Personal information
Full name	Ane Stangeland Horpestad
Date of birth	(1980-06-02) 2 June 1980 (age 36)
Place of birth	Stavanger, Norway
Height	166 cm (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Centre-back
Youth career
	Orre
2000	UM Rams
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1997–2005	Klepp
2006	Kolbotn
2007–2008	Klepp
National team‡
1999–2008	Norway	107	(5)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 27 September 2014

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Ane Stangeland Horpestad (née Stangeland; born 2 June 1980) is a Norwegian former footballer who captained the Norway women's national football team. A cultured central defender, she represented Klepp and Kolbotn of the top Norwegian league, the Toppserien. She is from the seaside village of Orre in South-West Norway and lives in the town of Sandnes near Stavanger. Before joining Klepp at the age of 16 she played football only on boys' teams.

In 2000 she attended university in the United States, where she was named 1st-Team National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) All-American, All-Conference and All-Region while at the University of Mobile, Alabama. She also won Region XIII Player of the Year honours and helped lead the team to the NAIA National Tournament.

For the 2006 season she left Klepp and moved to Oslo to play for Kolbotn, rejecting a competing offer from Trondheims-Ørn. She helped Kolbotn reach the semi-finals of the 2006–07 UEFA Women's Cup by beating 1. FFC Frankfurt in the quarter-finals. In June 2006 Stangeland married Steffen Horpestad, the assistant trainer of Klepp's men's team, and attached his surname to hers. At the end of 2006 Stangeland Horpestad returned to Norway's West Coast to play again for Klepp, where she trained twice a week with the men's team in addition to normal training.