Club Career
Holm was born in Oslo, and grew up in Trosterud, and played for Vålerenga's youth team. He felt that Vålerenga did not give the youth a chance, and transferred to Eredivisie club SC Heerenveen during the summer of 1998. Holm performed well as right back and defensive midfielder under head coach Foppe de Haan's command, and in 2000 he signed a four-year contract worth 10 million Norwegian kroner.
In the 2001–02 season, Holm was loaned out to BV Veendam, and in September 2002 he moved back to Norway and Vålerenga where he accepted a lower salary, and justified the transfer with Vålerenga's ambitions and supporters. Head coach of Vålerenga, Kjetil Rekdal had big faith in Holm, and said that he was a talented player with a big future, and stated that Holm would be the perfect replacement for Rekdal in the midfield after his own retirement. Holm won the Norwegian Cup with Vålerenga in 2002.
Holm lost most of the 2003 season due to a calf fracture, but in 2004 he was back and was a contributing factor to Vålerenga's good season when they lost the league championship to Rosenborg on goal difference. The next season Vålerenga and Holm won the league, one point ahead of Start
Holm did not play much during the 2007 season, only six league-games and 14 games in total, and transferred to Molde after that season. In total he played 145 matches for Vålerenga, and scored three goals. He played 60 league-matches during his first three seasons in Molde, and in 2009 he won silver in both the league and the cup with Molde. Nevertheless, after the 2010 season, Molde tried to sell Holm to other clubs, without any success, and Holm played under the command of the new manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær, until he in August 2011 was loaned out to Tromsø for the rest of the 2011 season. As such, Holm was both champion and runner-up of the 2011 Tippeligaen, as Molde won the league while Tromsø finished second.
On 14 January 2012, he signed a two-year contract with Fredrikstad, after leaving Molde on a free transfer, and on 14 April he scored his first goal for the club when Fredrikstad lost 2–1 against Rosenborg at home.
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