{{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 <small>(Owner)</small> }} |revenue = Unknown |net_income = |num_employees = Approx. 90 (volunteers)<!--Updated monthly by OKBot.--> }}
'''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).<ref name=fg>{{cite journal|title=Vill bli störst i världen|publisher=Fotboll Guiden|language=Swedish|date=November 2006}}</ref>
Maintained by a team of volunteers from all over the world, it is one of the largest websites of its kind.<ref name=legal>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name=legal/>
Playerhistory.com's material has been reproduced in media sources including ''Aftenposten,''<ref>{{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}}</ref> and ''Bladet Tromsø''.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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== External links == *List of archived [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.playerhistory.com/player/* Playerprofiles] on Playerhistory.com at Wayback Machine.
Category:Online person databases Category:Association football websites Category:Sport Internet forums Category:Internet properties established in 2002