Claus Lundekvam
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Claus Lundekvam | ||
| Date of birth | 22 February 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Austevoll, Norway | ||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Brann | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1996 | Brann | 53 | (1) |
| 1996–2008 | Southampton | 357 | (2) |
| Total | 410 | (3) | |
| National team | |||
| 1995–2005 | Norway | 40 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Claus Lundekvam (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈklæʉs ˈlʉnːəˈkʋɑmː]; born 22 February 1973) is a former Norwegian footballer, who spent most of his career at English side Southampton. He played for Southampton in the 2003 FA Cup Final against Arsenal. Lundekvam was capped 40 times playing for Norway.
Hailing from Austevoll, Norway, he joined Brann as a junior player with his senior debut coming in 1993. Lundekvam eventually gained a regular place as a central defender before being sold to English side Southampton in the autumn of 1996. He was the team's first choice for captain for several years.
Lundekvam made his debut for Norway in November 1995, but did not become a regular until 2002. He was capped 40 times, scoring twice. His first international goal, against Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2002, was the 1,000th goal in the history of the Norwegian national team.
He scored only two goals during his Saints career. His first came against Wolverhampton Wanderers on 3 April 2004 in a 4–1 win, and his second against Cardiff in 2006 – both teams managed at the time by former Saints manager Dave Jones.
In 2002–03, he contributed to what was undoubtedly Southampton's best season since the 1980s, when they finished eighth in the Premier League and reached the FA Cup final, where they only narrowly missed out on silverware as they lost 1–0 to Arsenal. This was during the management of Gordon Strachan, who famously joked when Lundekvam was stretched off injured in a game against Leicester City in the 2003–04 season that he "didn't have a clue" whether the player was unconscious as "that's what he's always like".[1]
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