Playerhistory.com

{{Short description|Internet association football database}}

{{Infobox website

|name = Playerhistory.com

|logo = Playerhistory.jpg

|logo_size = 200

|caption =

|company_type = Private

|founder = Håkon André Winther

|area_served = Worldwide

|foundation = Tromsø, Norway

|location = Tromsø, Norway

|key_people = {{ubl

|Håkon André Winther (Owner)

}}

|revenue = Unknown

|net_income =

|num_employees = Approx. 90 (volunteers)

}}

Playerhistory.com is an internet association football statistics database, founded in April 2002 by former footballer Håkon André Winther (born 15 September 1969 in Tromsø).{{cite journal|title=Vill bli störst i världen|publisher=Fotboll Guiden|language=Swedish|date=November 2006}}

Maintained by a team of volunteers from all over the world, it is one of the largest websites of its kind.{{cite news|url=http://fotball.itromso.no/incoming/article146822.ece|author=Eirik Bang Pedersen|language=Norwegian|title=Truet med søksmål|publisher=Tromso.no|date=2009-08-05|accessdate=2010-06-11|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213212009/http://fotball.itromso.no/incoming/article146822.ece|archivedate=2010-02-13}} As of August 2009, when Football DataCo threatened legal action in a dispute over fixtures, the site contains more than 340,000 player profiles, 40,000 club details and more than 1,600,000 match results.

Playerhistory.com's material has been reproduced in media sources including Aftenposten,{{cite news|url=http://fotball.aftenposten.no/incoming/article12434.ece|author=Per-Christian Johansen|language=Norwegian|title=Ny finne TIL-aktuell|newspaper=Aftenposten|date=2006-01-23|accessdate=2010-06-11|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307132433/http://fotball.aftenposten.no/incoming/article12434.ece|archivedate=2012-03-07}} and Bladet Tromsø.{{cite news|url=http://fotball.itromso.no/incoming/article12429.ece|author=Anders Horne|language=Norwegian|title=En god fotballspiller|publisher=itromso.no|date=2006-01-23|accessdate=2010-06-11|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718172411/http://fotball.itromso.no/incoming/article12429.ece|archivedate=2011-07-18}}