Vetle Auklend
.jpg) Auklend with Viking in 2025 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 22 March 2005 | ||
| Place of birth | Stavanger, Norway | ||
| Position | Left back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Viking | ||
| Number | 24 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2018 | Vidar | ||
| 2019–2023 | Viking | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2024– | Viking | 19 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2024 | Norway U19 | 3 | (0) |
| 2025– | Norway U20 | 7 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 10:52, 16 July 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 24 November 2025 | |||
Vetle Auklend (born 22 March 2005) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a left back for Eliteserien club Viking.
Club career
[edit]He grew up in the Stavanger borough of Sandal,[1] and is a younger brother of fellow footballer Sondre Auklend.[2][3][4]
Having played youth football in FK Vidar, Vetle Auklend came over to the academy of Viking FK in 2019. He made his competitive first-team debut in the cup in April 2024, followed by his Eliteserien debut eleven days later.[5] He scored his first goal in June 2025.[1] In 2025, he was competing to be the starting left back.[6] He made seven appearances and scored one goal as Viking won the 2025 Eliteserien.[7][8]
International career
[edit]Vetle Auklend made his international debut for Norway U19 in July 2024,[5] at the 2024 UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Northern Ireland, where he was included without a single cap to his name.[9] The following year, he and the team made the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup. As Norway beat Paraguay U20, the opponents had a goal annulled via video assistant referee, as the video showed Vetle Auklend being shoved and trampled.[10]
Career statistics
[edit]| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | Continental | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Viking | 2024 | Eliteserien | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | 9 | 0 | |
| 2025 | Eliteserien | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2[b] | 0 | 15 | 1 | |
| 2026 | Eliteserien | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
| Total | 19 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 1 | ||
| Career total | 19 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 1 | ||
- ↑ Includes Norwegian Cup
- ↑ Appearances in UEFA Conference League
Honours
[edit]Viking
References
[edit]- 1 2 "– Blir fremdeles ikke gjenkjent på butikken" (in Norwegian). TV 2. 27 June 2025. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
- ↑ "Se, her er Vikings nye brødrepar: – Et stort øyeblikk". Stavanger Aftenblad (in Norwegian). 12 October 2023. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
- ↑ "– Ikke kult når broren din får så mye tyn". Stavanger Aftenblad (in Norwegian). 22 January 2025. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
- ↑ "– Det ble sinnssykt" (in Norwegian). TV 2. 28 May 2025. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
- 1 2 3 Vetle Auklend at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
- ↑ "Viking-talentet øyner håp – holder interessert klubb på vent". Stavanger Aftenblad (in Norwegian). 21 February 2025. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
- 1 2 Vetle Auklend at Soccerway
- 1 2 Barka, Even Hye Tytlandsvik (30 November 2025). "Banestorming og enorme scener da Viking vant Eliteserien" [Pitch invasion and huge scenes as Viking win the Eliteserien]. NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Archived from the original on 1 December 2025. Retrieved 1 December 2025.
- ↑ "17 (!) EM-debutanter klare: – En sterk tropp" (in Norwegian). Eurosport. NTB. 2 July 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
- ↑ "Norges U20-lag skrev historie – til VM-kvartfinale med 1-0 over Paraguay". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). 9 October 2025. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
