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Former Norway Coach Martin Sjögren Named Coach of the NWSL’s Chicago Stars
Martin Sjögren replaces interim coach Ella Masar as Chicago Stars seek to improve after winning only once in 15 matches this season, currently 13th in the NWSL standings.
- Following a season of coaching changes, Chicago Stars FC have hired Martin Sjögren as head coach, ESPN reported, with him expected to join in January after the 2025 Damallsvenskan season.
- With 11 games left in the season, Chicago Stars FC sit 13th in the 14-team NWSL, having won only once in 15 matches after firing Lorne Donaldson in April.
- Sjögren oversaw Norway's women's national team from 2016 to 2022, leading them to a 2019 World Cup quarterfinal, and became Hammarby IF head coach in January 2024.
- Adding Anders Jacobson as interim head coach, the Stars will retain Ella Masar until the season's end.
- Following the Swedish Damallsvenskan season and Champions League play-in rounds later this month, Sjögren will join the Stars for the 2026 NWSL season, sources said.
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Former Norway coach Martin Sjögren named coach of the NWSL’s Chicago Stars
The Chicago Stars have named former Norway women's national team coach Martin Sjögren as the National Women's Soccer League club’s new head coach.
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Former Norway coach Martin Sjögren named coach of the NWSL's Chicago Stars
The Chicago Stars have named former Norway women’s national team coach Martin Sjögren as the National Women’s Soccer League club’s new head coach.
Stars' new head coach Martin Sjögren will take over team in 2026
The Stars have named former Norway women's national team coach Martin Sjögren as the National Women's Soccer League club's new head coach.Sjögren will join the Stars starting with the 2026 season after wrapping up the current season as head coach for Hammarby in the Swedish Damallsvenskan, the Stars announced Wednesday."For me, this position as head coach of the Chicago Stars is a new challenge in a new country, in a new league," he said in a vi…
The top Swedish women's team Hammarby is losing its coach. Martin Sjögren is leaving the Stockholm club after the season for a new assignment in the USA. – Getting the chance to work with a team in a country that has such a strong tradition in women's football is an opportunity I really want to take, he tells Hammarby's website.
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