Steinar Aase

Steinar Aase (born 15 April 1955) is a retired Norwegian footballer who played for Brann and Start as a forward. He was capped six times by Norway at the international level and scored 81 goals in 211 appearances at the highest level of Norwegian football.

Club career Aase began his career with Brann and made his debut in a Norwegian Cup match against Arna-Bjørnar in 1973, coming on as a substitute to score a hat-trick. He scored nine league goals in his first three seasons, with seven of them scored during the 1975 First Division campaign where Brann finished as runners-up behind Viking. Aase scored 15 goals in 22 league games during the 1976 season. Aase scored the decisive goal in a 4–3 win against Rosenborg on the final day of the season as Start won the title by virtue of a better goal difference than Bryne. He spent three more seasons with Start, scoring 28 league goals for the club in total, He retired at the end of the 1985 season. Prior to being selected for the senior team, Aase represented Norway at the under-21 level. He made seven appearances over a four-year period, scoring one goal – against Finland.

Honours Brann Norwegian Cup: 1976

Start Norwegian First Division: 1980