Heimebane

- Season 1

(2018)

Varg is a football team, which has just moved up to the best league in the Norwegian football tournament, when their coach suffers a heart attack. The best player, Michael Ellingsen, is all set for the job and the contract is ready to be signed. But the manager wants the female coach, Helena Mikkelsen, whos team is playing in the womens champions league. How will the club, the players and the town receive a female coach?

Helena is invited to dinner at a restaurant to meet the club owner, whom she wants to ask for new players. When she returns home, her daughter tells her about Adrian, a talented football player that lives in the neighbourhood. Helena realizes that he is a former Ajax player, and tries to recruit him for the team. At a training session Helena asks Michael if she can join in at a crossbar challenge (best out of five). Will she finally be able to convince the team, that she can play football?

At a board meeting it becomes clear that Espen has been asked to prepare a Plan B: names of football coaches who can step in at short notice should Helena fail. Adrian signs up with the club, but his first training sessions results in several confrontations with Michael. Helena learns more about Adrians background and why he left Ajax. It is time for the first game of the season. Will Adrian be mentally ready?

Three defeats at home gets too much for the supporters. They decide to make a joint walkout in the 82nd minute of the next game (thus commemorating a glorious game in '82). Helena's daughter, Camilla, gets a job at the restaurant, and Michael goes to see a female fan. When the supporters one evening paints graffiti on her car and on her house, she gets furious and goes to the supporters' pub, Wolfs Lair, where it comes to a confrontation.

Now it is time for the game against the hereditary enemy, Ålesund. Helena instructs her team to play more on the rough side: pushing, filming, biting ears etc. When Michael's knee is hurt, he must leave the game. In the middle of the game, Elvinds wife goes into labor, and he is called to the hospital. Helena has no other choice than letting Adrian take his place. During a confrontation with Ålesund's trainer, Helena gets the red card and must leave the field. Can they still win the game?

Helena is sentenced four days of quarantine because she pushed the coach from Aalesund. The team wins the first quarantine game with Michael as coach, and he doesn't hesitate to take the honour of the strategy and the victory. At Camilla's restaurant, one of the cooks grants her favours and thinks that he should have favours in return. One evening the Aalesund coach turns up at Helenas home. She manages to turn on her phone recording.

A few hours before the transfer window closes, Helena and Espen are ready to sign on Mario as a new player to replace Michael, whos knee is still not in order. However the money to buy Mario should come from a sale of Stilson, and he failed the medical check. Does Helena now have to sell one of the other players? And can she at such short notice? Meanwhile Camilla, Adrian and Nils are having dinner together. It turns out that Camilla has quit her job as dish washer at the restaurant, because she has got doubts on wether she really can cook.

The quarterfinals of the cup tournament ends in penalty shootouts. Helena selects five players, and in flashbacks we follow what happened to these five players in the weeks before.

The board is not happy with the results of the team, and they discuss firing Helena. The next game is against the mighty Rosenborg club, and Helena suggests that if they loose that game, she will resign herself, and Michael can become coach. But if they win, she wants a contract for the next season. Meanwhile Adrians father is working to get Adrian to sign a contract with his own club. But everything changes when Adrian is injured.

After Helena is fired, Michael takes over as coach. But it doesn't work out and the Varg team starts losing. If they don't win the last four games of the season, they will leave the premium league. Espen and Michael devise a plan to get Helena back as coach. But it involves Helena working secretly in the background. Is she willing to do that? And will it work?