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Harald Ingvaldsen (1942-87) was a Norwegian soccer player. He played numerous years for the Norwegian top clubs and had a short career in the English first division clubs Queen's Park Rangers and Coventry throughout the eighties. He never reached the Norway national team, but was in 1997 mentioned on a list over the most talentful footballers who never got an international cap for Norway.

Ingvaldsen made his senior debut for the Norwegian club Stromsgodset in September 1961, but only got a few minutes on the pitch in his only match for the club. The next year he went to Sandefjord on a free transfer, were he was only moderately successful, being played out of his favoured posistion as an offensive midfielder.

It was a suprise wehen the English first division team Queen's Park Rangers recruited Ingvaldsen in 1964, but he became somehow forgotten in his native country. He established himself as a left winger who could also play left fullback, but never got any official matches for the club. He was released after the 1967/78-season and signed for Coventry in august 1968 where he played full back but never reached further than the reserve team. He retired in 1971.