Axel Kolle

{{Short description|Norwegian footballer (born 1973)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Axel Kolle

| image =

| full_name = Axel Olav Kolle

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|1|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = Fredrikstad, Norway

| height = 1.86 m

| position = midfielder

| currentclub =

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Cicignon

| youthclubs2 = Lyn

| years1 = 1991

| years2 = 1991

| years3 = 1992

| years4 = 1993–1995

| years5 = 1996–2000

| years6 = 2001

| years7 = 2003

| years8 = 2004

| years9 = 2014-2016

| clubs1 = Lyn

| clubs2 = → Fredrikstad (loan)

| clubs3 = → Bærum (loan)

| clubs4 = Lyn

| clubs5 = Stabæk

| clubs6 = Lyn

| clubs7 = Lyn

| clubs8 = Heming

| clubs9 = Bærumsløkka

| caps1 = 1

| caps2 =

| caps3 =

| caps4 = 63

| caps5 = 109

| caps6 = 0

| caps7 = 2

| caps9 = 12

| goals1 = 0

| goals2 =

| goals3 =

| goals4 = 24

| goals5 = 10

| goals6 = 0

| goals7 = 0

| goals9 = 10

| nationalyears1= 1990

| nationalteam1 = Norway U17

| nationalcaps1 = 2

| nationalgoals1= 0

| nationalyears2= 1994

| nationalteam2 = Norway U21

| nationalcaps2 = 6

| nationalgoals2= 0

}}

Axel Olav Kolle (born 24 January 1973) is a retired Norwegian football midfielder.

He is a son of footballer {{ill|Knut Kolle|no}},{{cite news|title=Sendte sønnen til Sampdoria og Barcelona|last=Johannessen|first=Trond|date=23 October 1994|work=VG|page=37|language=no}}{{cite news|title=Også du, min sønn Axel|last=Dehlin|first=Håkon|date=4 September 1994|work=Aftenposten|page=19|language=no}} and started his youth career in a small club named Cicignon.{{cite news|title=En veloppdragen opprører|last=Valderhaug|first=Bertil|date=30 March 1996|work=Aftenposten|page=31|language=no}} He then came through SFK Lyn's youth ranks, and in 1987 he trained with Sampdoria.{{cite news|title=Axel Erobreren|last=Nesbø|first=Knut|author-link=Knut Nesbø|date=15 December 1987|work=Aftenposten|page=17|language=no}} He was also a sporadic Norway youth international.{{NFF|name=Axel Olav Kolle}}

He made his senior debut in the 1991 Norwegian Premier League, playing one game.{{cite web|url=http://www.lynfotball.net/Lyn_Spiller.asp?id=40|title=Axel Kolle|publisher=LynFotball.net|access-date=20 July 2010}} In 1991, he went on loan to Fredrikstad FK,{{cite news|title=Fredrikstad vant fortjent|publisher=Norwegian News Agency|date=16 June 1991|language=no}} and in 1992 to Bærum SK.{{cite news|title=Bærum SK - har lagt listen høyere|last=Dehlin|first=Håkon|date=21 April 1992|work=Aftenposten Aften|page=21|language=no}} From 1993 to 1995 he played for Lyn again, and scored 24 goals in 63 league games. From 1996 to 2000 he played for Stabæk Fotball, scoring 10 goals in 109 league games. He won the Norwegian Football Cup 1998.{{cite web|url=http://www.arkiv.stabak.no/soccerstats/player.php?id=51|title=Axel Kolle|publisher=Stabæk Fotball|access-date=20 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724185044/http://www.arkiv.stabak.no/soccerstats/player.php?id=51|archive-date=24 July 2011|url-status=dead}} He returned to Lyn ahead of the 2001 season, did not play because of injury, then retired,{{cite news|title=Axel Kolle slutter i Lyn|last=Kleppe|first=Mads Kvernen|date=16 November 2001|work=avis1|page=22|language=no}} but returned briefly to play two games in 2003.

After a long hiatus, in 2010 he signed for low-level team Bærumsløkka FK together with Jan-Derek Sørensen and Glenn Hartmann.{{cite news|title=Stjernelag i 5. divisjon|last=Dale|first=Richard Sveaas|date=27 August 2010|work=Budstikka|page=23|language=no}}