Jon Knudsen
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 20 November 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Skedsmo, Norway | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Leirsund | |||
| Lillestrøm | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1999 | Lillestrøm | 6 | (0) |
| 1996 | → Strømsgodset (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 1997 | → Skjetten (loan) | ||
| 1998 | → Kongsvinger (loan) | 14 | (0) |
| 1999–2000 | FC Midtjylland | 14 | (0) |
| 2000–2012 | Stabæk | 285 | (0) |
| 2012 | Fredrikstad | 16 | (0) |
| 2013 | Lillestrøm | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 342 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 1994 | Norway U-21 | 2 | (0) |
| 2008–2011 | Norway | 20 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Jon Knudsen (born 20 November 1974) is a Norwegian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He spent most of his career with Stabæk, where he won the league in 2008, and has also played for Lillestrøm, Strømsgodset, Skjetten, Kongsvinger, FC Midtjylland and Fredrikstad. Knudsen was the first-choice goalkeeper for the Norway national team between 2008 and 2011 and was capped 20 times.
Knudsen started his career with youth football in his native Leirsund. He was discovered by the local club Lillestrøm, a Tippeligaen team, and represented Norway internationally on youth level, including at the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship. In 1993, he was on a fruitless trial with AFC Ajax. The same year he was included in the first squad of Lillestrøm as a reserve for Norway international Frode Grodås. In a Lillestrøm match against Ham Kam in June 1993, Grodås was injured before half time, and Knudsen made his senior debut. At the time Grodås was injured Ham Kam was behind 0–2, but they eventually won 4–3 after four goals by Petter Belsvik. However, in the next game Lillestrøm defeated Molde 3–0. After four games Grodås returned from injury.
Seeing limited playing time, Knudsen was sent on loan to Strømsgodset. Here, Knudsen suffered from a broken leg sustained in a match against Stabæk, where he collided with a teammate. Knudsen spent thirteen months away from football. He then spent time on loan to Skjetten and Kongsvinger. He left Norway in 1999 for Danish team Ikast FS, which in the same year was merged to form FC Midtjylland. Already in January 2000 he left FC Midtjylland, after conceding eight goals in fifteen matches, for Stabæk in Norway, as a replacement for Frode Olsen.
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