Coaching Career
From the late 1990s "Perry" first joined the coaching staff of RBK, but went on to Swedish top flight club GIF Sundsvall in the autumn 2001 where he enjoyed great success in his first season.
After just avoiding relegation in 2003 he resigned from the club and returned to RBK, turning down the job as manager of Swedish champions Djurgården of Stockholm. Assistant to Ola By Rise during the not too impressive 2004 season, he was promoted to head coach going into the historic start of the Royal League, the UEFA Champions League of Scandinavian football.
Considered by the press as only the third best man for the position, he led Rosenborg B.K. into a difficult reconstruction process, seeing the stem of the team closing in on retirement from professional football. Half-way into the 2005 season, he chose to give up his position as manager, after a string of bad results, and was immediately replaced by Per-Mathias Høgmo.
Hansen signed a two year long contract with the Adeccoligaen club Aalesunds F.K. December 6, 2005. Aalesunds FK got promoted to Tippeligaen 2006. He left Aalesund and moved back to his former team GIF Sundsvall in December 2007. He was the coach of GIF Sundsvall until 2 October 2008, when he got fired. In the 2009 season he coached Ranheim Fotball in Norwegian Second Division, and the club was promoted to First Division. During the 2010 season he was head of a coaching team including Otto Ulseth and Christer Basma.
He is from 2011 coaching the Norway national under-21 football team. On 16 October 2012 he coached this team to an astonishing 5-4-aggregate win over France and thereby qualifying for the UEFA EURO U21-Finals starting June 2013.
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