Article by Daniel Scorpie – published on Friday, April 18, 2025, 12:30 / Updated on Friday, April 18, 2025 12:34
Bodo/Glimt became Thursday evening, after the winning lottery of the penalties on the Olimpico, on the return with Lazio (1-3, 3-2) in the Europa League, the first Norwegian team that will play a continental semifinal. It is the fruit of a 7 -year -old solid project, which made the EliteSerien champion the strongest in Scandinavia.
The story of the European Revelation of the season resembles the Romanian one of Făt-Frumos. Only, unlike our folkloristic character, Tottenham's future opponent in the penultimate act of the Europa League did not increase in a year as others did in seven.
But he even invested with patience and head in a project during this period. They are the “seven years from home”, to keep the register, in which Bodo/Glimt climbed step by step until he reached the light of the spotlight.
Eliminating it Lazionone other than the winner of the UEL group and candidate instead of the Champions League in Serie A, it is absolutely not an accidental result!
It is the effect of long-lasting, important investments in strengthening the lot, in gradually providing the highest salaries in Norway and the Scandinavian region, but also in ensuring a very solid financial situation, based on which Bodo/GLIMT has become the main power in Eliteseien, dethroning Rosenborg.
In August 2023, Bodo eliminated Sepsi after extension!
It is enough to look at what was happening in the autumn of 2018, after Bodo/Glomt, the team from a city with the population as much as Miercurea Ciuc (to keep the temperature) and below that of Sfântu Gheorghe (you will see below why we give this example), draw (1-1) with Rosenborg. In the post-promoting season, he ended in the 11th place with half of the points gathered by the band from Trondheim, again queen.
From this point the ascension of the anonymous has started at that time the formations of Urbea from Nordland whose translation would be the “island of the sank rocks”. Even so, below sea level Bodo/Glimt flew! A year later, he climbed the second position, over Rosenborg.
In order for in 2020 to win (with great advance), for the first time the title. In 108 years of existence, he had only two cups, the most recent in 1993. And since then hegemony began, with three other championships won four seasons.
Coach Kjetil Knudsen, the coach who has done in more than seven years the story called Bodo / GLIMT / PHOTO: IMAGO
Bodo/Glimt, salary budget of 20.8 million euros!
The internal performance was the effect of the amounts injected into the club, salaries, transfer amounts, players' sales and then restoring them with a lot of money spent.
Eloquent is that the Rocada with Rosenborg was reflected in the difference of salary budgets: in 2019, at the last participation in a group in Europe, the trondheim club paid contracts of 144 million crowns (about 11.5 million euros), compared to only 34 million (2.7 million), Bodo/GLIMT.
The comparative evolution of wages paid by Bodo/Glimt to Rosenborg
Over four times more! What is the situation today? Bodo removes 260 million crowns from annually (20.8 million), while Rosenborg, 118 million (9.4 million euros).
Bodo/Glimt reported revenues of 48 million in 2024!
The difference between the income related to the tax is incredible. Last year, Bodo/Glimt announced over 600 million crowns (48 million euros), more than three times as the rival in Trondheim!
In order to keep the salary budget this season, he had to cover a deficit of 3.5 million euros, managing to keep his stars and not have to sell in Europe. And to attract the best of the region, offering the highest salary for a club coach from Norway and Scandinavia: 900,000 euros net annually! Kjtetil Knudesn was entrusted with this ambitious project in November 2017.
Here is the key to success represented by those who lead the destinies of the newly semi -finalist! The financial power based on a healthy economic project. Because, looking at the value of the lot on transfermarkt.com, FCSB is at the same value level, and even the best rated, Captain Darius Olaru, is higher than the stoprik sjovold stoop! But the appearances TM cheats.
Bodo / Glimt's players celebrate the miracle on the Olimpico, after the last penalty missed by Taty Castellanos / Photo: IMAGO
It is time to move our attention to what you are sitting in Europe, the display case that matters for the value of a football brand. From an elimination in the third preliminary round of the Europa League 2020-2021 (2-3 with Milan, which then took the star, on Jens-Peter Hauge, with 4.8 million euros, after a goal and an assist against Rossonilor), he immediately upgraded to a qualification in the group of Conference League!
Bodo/Glimt administered a 6-1 Rome of Jose Mourinho!
Bodo/Glimt did not lose in the double with Ace of Jose Mourinho, but he gave him a beating mother on the Asdium (6-1), Olimpico remitting (2-2)! Of course, on a synthetic lawn, which opponents adapt hard and lost on the ends.
Norway's champion did not stop there. He passed the group and went to the “quarters” lecturer, a phase in which he met with the Gialrossii. But this time, Rome was revealed, with a 4-0 century in the Eternal Fortress (in the tour had succeeded, with 2-1), showing, however, the limits of the Cinderella between Fjords.
Next Step, 2022 -'23. Bodo/Glimt passes three preliminary tours and reaches the champions League play-off, where he gives up very hard, after extensions in front of Dinamo Zagreb (and the Croatian champion inclined the flag in the tour, 0-1). He relegates to the Europa League, where he does not cope with Arsenal (0-4 general) and PSV Eindhoven, leaving Europe in the Conference play-off.
Although he missed the first shot in Rome, Patrick Berg was a real captain on Thursday / Photo: Imago
From 3-2 in extensions with Sepsi, to 3-0 with the conference holder!
Many were already seeing a recoil, but it was only a small step back for a new advance. As he had not won the title, he arrived in Conference and faced in the August play-off with Sepsi!
After 2-2 in Sfântu Gheorghe, the Covasnenii repeated the score on Aspmyra and took the match in extensions, where A penalty qualified on the Norwegians in the group. There, Bodo/Glimt ranked 2, after defeating Beșiktaș at home, and played the play-off with Ajax, giving up only in the extract!
The current season was that of the “explosion”. Started from the second preliminary round, Bodo/Glimt went to the gates of the League group, which was closed, with a big fight, with the Serbia champion, Steaua Roșie (2-1 on his own ground, 0-2 in Belgrade). This is while FCSB was eliminated by Sparta Prague in the third qualifying round.
In the XXL series, the Norwegians finished with the same number of points 14 as the red-blue (a little better goal) and two places above (11 to 9). But if Charalambous's band taught in “optimals” in front of Lyon (1-7 general), Bodo/Glimt has exceeded two more obstacles: Olympiakos and Thursday, Lazio!
The Danish striker Jesper Hogh, who makes an offensive couple with Jens Petr Hauge, is Bodo/Glimt's goalscorer in Europe (7 successes). It still has two in the Champions League prerequisites / Photo: Imago
Bodo had a 5% chances of semifinals, but he beat the favorite #1!
The conference holder, with whom FCSB did null on the National Arena, bodice without the right of appeal in Noresgia (0-3, 2-1 in Athens), after previously, in a chronological reverse order, Twente Enschede (2-5 after extensions), Maccabi Tel Aviv (1-3), Beșikatș (1-2), and especially at the Start. Group, FC Porto (2-3), seen by the supercomputer opted as the main favorite to conquer the trophy!
Given that the champion of Norway was credited with only 5% chances to play in the semifinals, being 24 that hopes to get out of the group (FCSB had 1% in the semifinals)! Like Rangers and Qarabag, the Azeri being the only team that managed to win at Bodo (2-1)!
FCSB receives 2.1 times less money than Bodo/Glimt
The difference of sports performance is also doubled by the discrepancy of the financial results. If FCSB, which otherwise exceeded its condition (the 35th chance of 36), has collected 12.5 million euros, other bonuses and market-pool (we do not include the money from tickets), Bodo/GLIMT already has 26.2 million (2.1 times more).
4.2 million is just the reward for eliminating Lazio at the break! And about Biancocelesti: Kjetil Knudsen's team (56 years old) used half of Olimpico on Thursday of the holders who were hard to get out of Europe on Sepsi almost 600 days ago!
7Millions of euros spent Bodo/GLIMT for purchases this season, but also sold 18.64 million, Danish midfielder Albert Gronbaek being transferred to Rennes by 15 million
But in the field in the capital of Italy there were some stars, which no one in Superliga would afford to pay: the striker Kasper Hogh, brought last year from Stabek with only 700,000 euros, who is the team's goalscorer (7 successes), of which three in “double” with Olympiakos.
Patrick Berg, brought back 8 months after Lens with 4 million euros. For Hauge, he paid 3.5 million to Eintracht!
Jens Petter Hauge, brought back almost five years after Serie A transfer, signed a “double” 7 months ago at 3-2 with FC Porto / Photo: Imago
Patrick Berg, the captain, was bought with 4 million (the most expensive acquisition ever made by a Norwegian club!) From Lens, after only eight months after the same team, the defensive midfielder not adapting to Ligue 1.
And the Jens-Petter Hauge decar, the far left, traveled a go: sold to Milan in 2020 with 4.8 million euros and redeemed in January 2025 from Frafkurt with only 3.5 million.
