Erling Haaland Parents, Family, Siblings, Father & Mother

Who are Erling Haaland’s parents, family siblings, father, mother, sister, and brother?

Who is Erling Haaland?

Erling Braut Haaland (born 21 July 2000) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester City and the Norway national team. Considered one of the best players in the world, he is known for his speed, strength, and finishing inside the box. He holds the record for the most goals scored in the Premier League by one player in a single season; 35 goals in 31 appearances.

Coming through the youth system, Haaland played at senior level for Bryne’s reserve and senior teams. He then moved to Molde in 2017 (also playing for their reserve team), with whom he spent two seasons. Haaland signed with Austrian Bundesliga side Red Bull Salzburg in January 2019, winning two league titles and one Austrian Cup. In December 2019, he moved to German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund, where he won the DFB-Pokal in 2020–21. In the summer of 2022, he transferred to Manchester City for a fee of €60 million (£51.2 million).

Haaland has won several individual awards and broken various records during his career. During the 2019–20 season with Salzburg, he became the first teenager to score goals in five consecutive UEFA Champions League matches. He was the top scorer of the Champions League for the 2020–21 season. In 2020, Haaland won the Golden Boy award, while in 2021 he was named Bundesliga Player of the Season and was included in the FIFA FIFPro World11 in 2021 and 2022. With Manchester City, he has also broken Premier League records, including most goals scored in a season, the quickest individual to score two, three and four hat-tricks, and the first player in the league’s history to score hat-tricks in three consecutive home games.

Haaland has represented Norway at various youth levels. In the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, he won the tournament’s Golden Boot, after scoring a record nine goals in a single match. He made his senior international debut in September 2019.

Parents and Family

Erling Haaland’s parents are Alfie Haaland (father) and Gry Marita Braut (mother).

Haaland was born on 21 July 2000 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, as his father Alfie Haaland was playing for Leeds United in the Premier League at the time. In 2004, at the age of three, he moved to Bryne, his parents’ hometown in Norway. Along with playing football from an early age, Haaland took part in various other sports as a child, including handball, golf and track and field. He also reportedly achieved a world record in his age category for the standing long jump when he was five, with a recorded distance of 1.63 metres in 2006.

He is the youngest of three children born to his parents, Gry Marita Braut and Alf-Inge Håland.

Erling’s father Alfie Haaland who was born on 23 November 1972 is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a right-back or midfielder.

In Norway, Erling’s mother Gry Marita Braut was born in the middle of the 1970s. She is Norwegian-born and in her forties. Norwegian nationality and she belongs to white ethnicity.

Gry Marita Braut is a former athlete. She is most known for being the mother of Norwegian player Erling Haaland. She was the ex-wife of retired professional footballer Alfie Haaland.

Competitor Gry Marita Braut won the heptathlon for Norway. She also competed in track and field, a seven-event sport.

Siblings

Haaland has two other siblings, his sister Gabrielle Braut Haaland and his brother Astor Haaland.

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