Bjørnar Holmvik

{{Short description|Norwegian footballer and coach (born 1985)}}

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

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Bjørnar Holmvik

| image = Bjørnar Holmvik 2006 06 04.jpg

| image_size = 200

| fullname = Bjørnar Pettersen Holmvik

| height = {{height|m=1.75|precision=0}}{{nifs|446||Accessdate=19 April 2009}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|6|2|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Oslo, Norway

| currentclub = Vidar (player-manager)

| clubnumber =

| position = Left back

| youthyears1 = {{0}}{{0}}{{0}}{{0}}–2002 | youthyears2 =2002–2003

| youthclubs1 = Grei | youthclubs2 =Stabæk

| years1 = 2003–2008

| years2 = 2009–2011

| years3 = 2012–2013

| years4 = 2013

| years5 = 2014

| years6 = 2015–2016

| years7 = 2017–2018

| years8 = 2018–2019

| years9 = 2021–

| clubs1 = Stabæk

| clubs2 = Brann

| clubs3 = Sandnes Ulf

| clubs4 = Kalmar

| clubs5 = Fredrikstad

| clubs6 = Bryne

| clubs7 = Vidar

| clubs8 = Sandnes Ulf

| clubs9 = Vidar

| caps1 = 91 | goals1 = 3

| caps2 = 57 | goals2 = 1

| caps3 = 36 | goals3 = 1

| caps4 = 11 | goals4 = 1

| caps5 = 27 | goals5 = 1

| caps6 = 56 | goals6 = 4

| caps7 = 34 | goals7 = 1

| caps8 = 32 | goals8 = 3

| caps9 = 0 | goals9 = 0

| nationalyears1 = 2001

| nationalteam1 = Norway U-16

| nationalcaps1= 9 | nationalgoals1 = 1

| nationalyears2 = 2002

| nationalteam2 = Norway U-17

| nationalcaps2= 8 | nationalgoals2 = 0

| nationalyears3 = 2003

| nationalteam3 = Norway U-18

| nationalcaps3=11 | nationalgoals3 = 0

| nationalyears4 = 2004

| nationalteam4 = Norway U-19

| nationalcaps4= 6 | nationalgoals4 = 0

| nationalyears5 = 2006

| nationalteam5 = Norway U-21

| nationalcaps5= 3 | nationalgoals5 = 0

| manageryears1 = 2020–

| managerclubs1 = Vidar (player-manager)

}}

Bjørnar Pettersen Holmvik (born 2 June 1985) is a Norwegian football coach and former player. As a player, Holmvik played as a defender and winger. He is currently head coach at Vidar.

He played for Stabæk from 2003 to 2008 and for SK Brann from 2009 to 2011.[http://www.stabak.no/component/option,com_soccerstats/player.php?id=18 Stabæk profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080604034559/http://www.stabak.no/component/option%2Ccom_soccerstats/player.php?id=18 |date=June 4, 2008 }}

SK Brann did not wish to renew Bjørnar Holmvik's contract and he went on to sign with newly promoted Tippeliga-club Sandnes Ulf.{{cite web|url=http://fotball.aftenbladet.no/eliteserien/article221125.ece |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708074158/http://fotball.aftenbladet.no/eliteserien/article221125.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 July 2012 |language=Norwegian |title=Bjørnar Holmvik klar for Sandnes Ulf |work=aftenbladet.no |publisher=Stavanger Aftenblad |date=23 January 2012 |accessdate=24 January 2012 }} On 28 July he signed a contract with the Swedish club Kalmar.

In 2015, he joined Bryne.{{cite news|url=http://www.aftenposten.no/100Sport/fotball/forstediv/Bjornar-Holmvik-klar-for-to-ar-i-Bryne-482499_1.snd|title=Bjørnar Holmvik klar for to år i Bryne|last=Nærland|first=Egil Ø.|date=29 December 2014|work=Stavanger Aftenblad|language=Norwegian|accessdate=5 January 2015}} Seeing through his two-year contract, in 2017 he went on to third-tier club FK Vidar.{{cite news|title=Holmvik klar for Vidar|work=Rogalands Avis|date=1 April 2017|language=Norwegian}}

In July 2018, Holmvik returned to Sandnes Ulf.{{cite web|title=Holmvik: - Det er mange X-faktorer i dette laget|url=http://www.sandnesulf.no/nyheter/holmvik-det-er-mange-x-faktorer-i-dette-laget|website=www.sandnesulf.no|publisher=Sandnes Ulf|accessdate=30 July 2018|language=Norwegian|date=27 July 2018}} After the end of the 2019 season, Holmvik retired as player and became head coach of 3. divisjon club Vidar.{{cite web|url=https://www.aftenposten.no/sport/fotball/i/zGw59v/sandnes-ulf-profil-legger-opp-blir-trener-i-lokal-klubb |title=Sandnes Ulf-profil legger opp – blir trener i lokal klubb |website=aftenposten.no |publisher=Aftenposten |date=20 November 2019 |accessdate=22 November 2019 |language=Norwegian}} After the 2020. 3. divisjon was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Holmvik played his first Vidar match as a substitute in the second round of the 2021 Norwegian Football Cup.