Markus Naglestad
 Naglestad in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Markus Kvame Naglestad | ||
| Date of birth | 26 April 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Kristiansand, Norway | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Chattanooga FC | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2006–2008 | Våg | ||
| 2006 | IK Start | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2010–2011 | Bridgeport Purple Knights | 33 | (23) |
| 2012–2014 | Providence Friars | 44 | (12) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009–2010 | Våg | ||
| 2012 | Connecticut FC Azul | 3 | (1) |
| 2013–2014 | Donn | 5 | (14) |
| 2015 | Gjøvik-Lyn | 28 | (28) |
| 2016 | Fram Larvik | 25 | (26) |
| 2017 | Sandefjord | 6 | (0) |
| 2017 | HamKam | 8 | (9) |
| 2018 | Hødd | 25 | (15) |
| 2019 | Egersund | 27 | (26) |
| 2020 | Hartford Athletic | 6 | (1) |
| 2021–2025 | Chattanooga FC | 116 | (60) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of September 21, 2025 | |||
Markus Naglestad (born 26 April 1991) is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a forward.
Career
[edit | edit source]Naglestad started his career as a youth at Våg. He had a short spell with IK Start in 2006.[1]
He featured for Våg in the 3. divisjon – the 4th tier of Norwegian football – in 2009 and 2010.[2] As a 19-year-old, he moved to the US for studies.[1][3] There he was voted both East Coast Conference Men's Soccer Offensive Player of the Year, and Rookie of the Year, by the league's coaches after his first season out of two seasons with Bridgeport Purple Knights of the NCAA Division II.[4][5] He then spent two seasons with Providence Friars of NCAA Division I,[6] before being drafted by New York City of Major League Soccer on 20 January 2015,[7] but failed to sign a contract due to a knee injury.[1]
On 9 November 2018, Naglestad signed with Egersunds IK for the 2019 season.[8]
In August 2020, he signed with Hartford Athletic of the USL Championship.[9]
On 16 February 2021, Naglestad signed with National Independent Soccer Association (NISA) side Chattanooga FC ahead of the Spring 2021 season.[10] He was the top scorer in NISA in the 2022 season,[11] and again in the 2023 season.[12] Naglestad left the club before the team's debut in MLS Next Pro in 2024, but was later brought back on board in August 2024.[13] In November 2024, the club announced that Naglestad would be re-signed to join for the 2025 season.[14]
Career statistics
[edit | edit source]- As of 21 September 2025
| Season | Club | Division | League | Cup | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| 2015 | Gjøvik-Lyn | 2. divisjon | 26 | 26 | 3 | 2 | 29 | 28 |
| 2016 | Fram Larvik | 24 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 26 | |
| 2017 | Sandefjord | Eliteserien | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 2017 | HamKam | 2. divisjon | 8 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 9 |
| 2018 | Hødd | 25 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 15 | |
| 2019 | Egersund | 26 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 26 | |
| 2020 | Hartford | USL Championship | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 2021 | Chattanooga FC | NISA | 21 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 15 |
| 2022 | 26 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 20 | ||
| 2023 | 23 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 32 | 23 | ||
| 2024 | MLS Next Pro | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
| 2025 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 2 | ||
| Career Total | 216 | 142 | 21 | 15 | 250 | 165 | ||
References
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- ^ Markus Naglestad klar for EIK Archived 4 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine, eikfotball.no, 9 November 2019
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Markus Naglestad at USL ChampionshipLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Norwegian men's footballers
- Norwegian expatriate men's footballers
- Providence Friars men's soccer players
- AC Connecticut players
- Sandefjord Fotball players
- Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
- New York City FC draft picks
- USL League Two players
- Eliteserien players
- Hamarkameratene players
- IL Hødd players
- Egersunds IK players
- Hartford Athletic players
- Chattanooga FC players
- Norwegian Second Division players
- Men's association football forwards
- Footballers from Kristiansand
- Bridgeport Purple Knights men's soccer players
- FK Donn (men) players
- IF Fram Larvik players
- National Independent Soccer Association players
- IK Start players
- SK Gjøvik-Lyn players
- Norwegian Third Division players
- Norwegian Fourth Division players
- USL Championship players
- MLS Next Pro players
- 21st-century Norwegian sportsmen