Women’s head coach of Norway, Martin Sjogren, and assistant Anders Jacobson have resigned after their team failed to make the Euro 2022 knockout stages. Coach Martin Sjogren Said since their expectations during the tournament were not met, they have to separate.
The two-time winners went out at the group stage for the second European Women’s Championship in a row. The Norway women’s team beat Northern Ireland but lost to England by 8 goals to none and finished with a 1-0 defeat to Austria.
Sjogren had been in charge of the women’s national team for more than five years. He has been the team’s head coach since 2016. An agreement was in place to evaluate progress after the tournament and the two coaches have been paid up to the end of their contract in August 2023.
“The expectations before this championship were clear and we had high ambitions to go far,” Sjogren said in a statement. “When the results did not match the expectations, the natural solution is that we now go our separate ways,” the head coach added.
The Norwegian Football Federation hopes to appoint a new coach before the team plays the September 2023 World Cup qualifiers against Belgium and Albania.
