Norwegian goalkeepers in the top-9 leagues per million and their age at the first top-9 season, 2025/26

Summary · Question 11 of 14

1 Norwegian goalkeepers played ≥ 450 minutes in the top-9 leagues, 0.18 per million (rank 7 of 9), and their median age at the first top-9 season was 32 (n = 1) against 22 for outfield exports (n = 44).

Strip plot of age at first top-9-league appearance, Norwegian goalkeepers against outfield exports, one dot per player, medians marked. — How to read it: one dot per player at the age of his first season in a top-9 league; goalkeepers in the upper strip, outfield exports in the lower, medians marked. Further left is an earlier first appearance.

Club tier: Norwegian top-9 goalkeepers, 2025/26

Player	Club	League	Minutes	Club goals percentile
Ørjan Nyland	Sevilla	ESP-La Liga	450	45 %

Goalkeeper production: Norwegian keepers, 2025/26

Player	Club	League	Minutes	Goals against per 90	Saves per 90	Save %	Clean-sheet share
Ørjan Nyland	Sevilla	ESP-La Liga	450	1.60	2.20	68.7 %	20 %
Mathias Dyngeland	Brann	NOR-Eliteserien	2700	1.53	2.27	65.5 %	17 %
Martin Børsheim	Fredrikstad	NOR-Eliteserien	1080	1.25	3.50	66.7 %	25 %
Amund Wichne	Haugesund	NOR-Eliteserien	1440	2.50	3.94	66.1 %	12 %
Einar Fauskanger	Haugesund	NOR-Eliteserien	990	2.91	3.73	65.5 %	0 %
Emil Ødegaard	KFUM Oslo	NOR-Eliteserien	2610	1.28	1.55	65.3 %	24 %
Adrian Sæther	Kristiansund	NOR-Eliteserien	1956	1.93	3.04	65.7 %	14 %
Knut-André Skjærstein	Kristiansund	NOR-Eliteserien	540	2.17	3.83	66.1 %	33 %
Jacob Karlstrom	Molde	NOR-Eliteserien	2520	1.32	2.61	66.4 %	32 %
Sander Tangvik	Rosenborg	NOR-Eliteserien	2700	1.40	3.20	66.7 %	37 %
Per Kristian Bråtveit	Strømsgodset	NOR-Eliteserien	2218	2.15	4.34	66.3 %	8 %
Arild Østbø	Viking	NOR-Eliteserien	1032	0.78	3.14	66.9 %	42 %
Kristoffer Klaesson	Viking	NOR-Eliteserien	1218	1.33	2.44	66.1 %	29 %
Thomas Kinn	Viking	NOR-Eliteserien	450	1.80	1.20	65.8 %	0 %
Jacob Storevik	Vålerenga	NOR-Eliteserien	630	1.86	4.00	66.3 %	29 %
Magnus Sjøeng	Vålerenga	NOR-Eliteserien	810	1.56	1.56	65.7 %	22 %
Viljar Myhra	Odense	DEN-Superliga	2008	1.75	2.82	63.8 %	17 %

Goalkeepers per million, by country

DEN Denmark

0.67

CRO Croatia

0.52

SUI Switzerland

0.45

SVK Slovakia

0.37

CZE Czechia

0.37

POL Poland

0.19

NOR Norway

0.18

AUT Austria

0.11

HUN Hungary

0.10

How we know

0.18 per million; first top-9 season at a median age of 32 (n = 1), against 22 for outfield exports (n = 44); with this few goalkeepers the two medians cannot be compared.

As an analytics question In numbers: Norwegian goalkeepers with ≥ 450 minutes in the top-9 leagues, per million inhabitants, against outfield export age.

What we did We counted goalkeepers the same way we counted outfield players, then compared the age each group first reached one of the strongest leagues.

Sources 450-minute floor, 2025/26 rosters; goals against and saves per 90 are shrunk toward the league median with a prior worth 900 minutes, as every rate in the atlas; first season in a fetched top-9 table; players already there in 2020/21 are censored (0 % of the goalkeepers, 30 % of the outfield exports); a comparison of two pathways inside one nation, not a causal claim.

What this means

Norway had 1 goalkeepers with at least 450 minutes in the top-9 leagues. The age comparison rests on 1 goalkeepers, too few to tell two medians apart, and the per-million rank rests on counts of a few goalkeepers per country, where one player moves a country by several places.

What this does not show

Goalkeepers’ performance separated from their defence, goalkeepers in leagues outside the nine, and back-up goalkeepers below 450 minutes.

Data snapshot: FBref tables fetched 14 September 2026, snapshot commit ef7dbd4 · code: src/goalkeepers.py · status: exploratory, not pre-registered · all limitations