Ivar Rønningen
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ivar Rønningen | ||
| Date of birth | 13 February 1975 | ||
| Place of birth | Lunner, Norway | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1993 | Lunner | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1999 | Vålerenga | 3 | (1) |
| 1999 | → Walsall (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 1999 | → GKS Katowice (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 1999 | → Grindvoll (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| 1999 | → Lillestrøm (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2000–2004 | Brann | 79 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | Rosenborg | 6 | (0) |
| 2006–2012 | Ham-Kam | 133 | (1) |
| National team | |||
| 1994 | Norway G18 | 2 | (0) |
| 1998 | Norway U-21 | 1 | (0) |
| 2002 | Norway B | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ivar Rønningen (born 13 February 1975) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Vålerenga, Brann, Rosenborg and HamKam. He also spent time on loan with Walsall, GKS Katowice and Lillestrøm. After playing professional football for almost 20 years, Rønningen retired after the 2012-season, and joined HamKam's coaching staff as a goalkeeper coach.
Rønningen was born in Lunner and played for the local club Lunner IL until he joined Vålerenga in 1994. He made his debut for Vålerenga in the 1997 Norwegian Football Cup match against Brann, and became the first goalkeeper to score a goal in an official match, when he scored from the penalty spot in the 6–0 victory against Eik-Tønsberg.
Rønningen did not get many chances for Vålerenga, and in the spring of 1999 he was loaned out to English club Walsall and Polish club GKS Katowice without success. It was the goalkeeper coach at Vålerenga, Tor Thodesen who arranged the deal with Katowice, but Rønningen returned from Poland because he didn't get the salary he was promised. When Rønningen returned to Norway, the only club who wanted to get Rønningen on loan was the Norwegian Third Division side Grindvoll. Lillestrøm needed a goalkeeper-reserve in the fall of 1999, and Thodesen tipped the club that Rønningen was available for loan.
After Thodesen was hired as Teitur Thordarson's assistant in Brann ahead of the 2000 season, he brought Rønningen to the club. After a year as the second-choice goalkeeper, but got the chance when Magnus Kihlstedt was injured in the spring of 2001. Rønningen soon became the first choice at Brann, and in August 2001 he was called up to the Norwegian national team, two years after he was playing in the Third Division. Rønningen was never capped for Norway, but did play one match for Norway B against Romania in January 2002, in addition to two matches for the under-21 team and one match for the under-18 team.
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