- Jo Tessem
Jo Tessem (born February 28, 1972), is a Norwegian footballer who plays for F.C. Lyn Oslo, in the Norwegian Premier League. Tessem is known for his versatility as a player, being able to play anywhere on the pitch. In recent years he has played mostly as an offensive midfielder or as a forward.
- Espen Hoff
Espen Hoff (born November 20, 1981) is a Norwegian professional footballer, currently playing for F.C. Lyn Oslo. He is primarily a winger, but may also play as an attacking midfielder. In his games for Lyn he has featured on the left wing. Espen Hoff was signed from Odd Grenland before the start of the 2006 season in Norway. As a junior he played for Sporty IL and Larvik Turn, before moving to Skien and Odd Grenland in 1999.
- Ezekiel Bala
Ezekiel Bala (born April 8,1987) is a Nigerian professional footballer midfielder with top dribbling skills who currently plays for F.C. Lyn Oslo, in Norway. He made his debut for F.C. Lyn Oslo against Klemetsrud, on May 112005. His previous club was JC Raiders Juniors. He was the captain of Nigeria's team in the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada, where he scored both goals in Nigeria's win over Scotland.
- Eddie Gustafsson
Eddie Gustafsson is a Swedish football goalkeeper. He started playing for IFK Stockholm and went on to IFK Norrköping before moving to Norway in 2002, playing for Molde. He was their first choice for three seasons, but as his contract expired after the 2004 season he decided to find a new club. He went on several fruitless trials for clubs in Europe and the USA, and joined another Norwegian club, Hamarkameratene. The stay only lasted for year.
- Kevin Larsen
Kevin Larsen (born 10 May 1986) is a Norwegian footballer who plays left back/central defender for FC Lyn Oslo. He previously played for Store Bergan and Runar in his home town Sandefjord, and made his debut for Lyn in 2005.
- Dylan MacAllister
Dylan Macallister (born May 17, 1982 in Manly) is an Australian football (soccer) player currently with Norwegian Premier League side Lyn of Oslo. His contract with the club lasts until 2008. Dylan Macallister has made several appearances for Australia's various age-specific teams. He participated in the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship, scoring three goals for his national side. Australia would go on to finish as runners-up behind Brazil.
- Harald Berg
Harald Berg was a Norwegian playmaker and midfielder, nickname "Dutte". He was the brother of Knut Berg and father of Runar Berg, Ørjan Berg and Arild Berg all top players in the Norwegian Premier League. Berg was a significant player for Bodø/Glimt in the late 50s, early 60s and 70s, and Lyn in the 60s. Helping Lyn winning the league in 1968 and Bodø/Glimt winning the cup final in 1975.
- Matías Almeyda
Matías Jesús Almeyda is an Argentine football player. Almeyda has played for several clubs, including River Plate, SS Lazio, AC Parma and Inter Milan, the last three all in Italy. He has also played for the Argentine national football team and was a participant at the 1996 Olympic Games, and the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cups. Due to his copious and thick hair, he's ironically nicknamed "El Pelado" ("The Baldy").
- Tom Sundby
Tom Sundby is a footballer from Norway. A midfielder who scored 6 goals in 39 caps for the national team, he participated in the 1984 Summer Olympics. Sundby followed in the footsteps of his father and began playing football in Larvik Turn. In 1981 he went to Lyn, and was brought to Lillestrøm two seasons later as a replacement for Tom Lund, who they lost to retirement. Sundby won the league title with Lillestrøm in 1986, and went to play abroad in Heracles.
- Mikel John Obi
Mikel John Obi (born April 22 1987 in Jos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian footballer. He is a central midfielder who currently plays for Chelsea. He was born "John Michael Nchekube Obinna", the son of a former civil servant. Mikel was playing top-flight football for Plateau United aged 15 and, by 2003, was gaining headlines for his country at the FIFA Under-17 World Championships held in Finland. After a brief spell in South Africa with Ajax Cape Town, …
- Simen Agdestein
Simen Agdestein (born 15 May 1967) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and ex-football star. He has won seven Norwegian chess championships, including the 2005 title. The young Agdestein developed a prodigious chess talent, culminating in his becoming Norway's national champion at the age of 15, an International Master at 16 and a Grandmaster at 18. On a local level, …
- Magnus Powell
Magnus Powell is a Swedish football (soccer) player, who currently plays for F.C. Lyn Oslo in the Norwegian Premier League. Powell played in the Swedish Allsvenskan from 1995 - 1999 for Helsingborgs IF. He was an important part of the 1999 Helsingborg team that won the championship in Sweden scoring 8 goals in 24 matches. At the start of the 2000-season Powell was sold to Lillestrøm for £350,000 to replace Icelandic international Heiðar Helguson.
- Stephen Laybutt
Stephen Laybutt (born 3 September, 1977 in Lithgow, New South Wales) is an Australian football (soccer) defender. He currently plays for K.A.A. Gent. He signed a 3 year deal with Gent in 2004.
- Tommy Berntsen
Tommy Berntsen is a Norwegian footballer and central defender. He currently plays for Lyn in the Norwegian Premier League. Tommy began his playing career at Vålerenga, but failed to make the first team. He spent the next few years in the lower divisions, playing for local clubs Lørenskog I.F. and Skjetten S.K. His breakthrough came in 1998 when he signed for Lillestrøm, …
- Lars Bohinen
Lars Bohinen was a Norwegian football (soccer) player. His first professional club was Vålerenga, and he played for Viking, Young Boys Bern, Derby County, Nottingham Forest, Blackburn Rovers and Lyngby F.C.. He once refused to play for the Norwegian national team against France in protest after the French Army started carrying out nuclear tests in the South Pacific. After he retired from footballing, Bohinen became assistant coach for Vålerenga in Oslo, Norway.
- Eldar Hadzimehmedović
Eldar Hadžimehmedović is a Bosnian-Norwegian football player. He plays as a striker or as an attacking midfielder. He has played for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national under-21 football team. On club level Hadžimehmedović is currently playing for Pors Grenland in Norway. He previously played for FC Lyn of Oslo, whom he joined from Bærum SK. He never made a breakthrough at Lyn, but made a name for himself against NSÍ Runavík in the UEFA Cup qualifying round.
- Ola Dybwad-Olsen
Ola Dybwad-Olsen is a former Norwegian footballer who played as a striker for Lyn, Stabæk and Norway. During his fourteen year career at Lyn he came to be regarded as one of the greatest players in the club's history. He holds several club records. Dybwad-Olsen made his debut for Lyn in 1964 and was part of the title-winning Lyn team of the 1960s. He became Cup Champion with Lyn in 1967, scoring one of the goals in the final (4-1 win against Rosenborg).
- Steven Lustü
Steven Lustü is a Danish football player currently on contract with Danish Superliga club Silkeborg IF. From 2000 to 2005, Steven Lustü played nine games for the Danish national team. Throughout his career, Steven Lustü has played the position of central defender.
- Øyvind Leonhardsen
Øyvind Leonhardsen is a Norwegian footballer. He is currently playing for Strømsgodset I.F., in the Norwegian Premier Division. Leonhardsen is Strømsgodset's captain this season. Leonhardsen won the honorable Kniksen award as the best midfielder in 1991 and 1993. He was voted the Player's Player of the Year in Norway in 1994. Leonhardsen started his career in Clausenengen before he, as a 19 year old, moved to Premier Division side Molde F.K. in 1989.
- Jan-Derek Sørensen
Jan-Derek Sørensen is a Norwegian football winger. His breakthrough came in Lyn, where he played 49 league matches from 1992 to 1994. He later played for Bodø/Glimt 95-97 and Rosenborg 98-00. After a relatively unsuccessful spell with German team Borussia Dortmund in 2001-2002 he returned to Lyn. In 2004 he became their top scorer, with only nine goals. On November 21 2005 he signed a contract with Oslo rivals Vålerenga, something that has provoked the supporters of Lyn.
- Jørgen Juve
Jørgen Juve was a Norwegian football (soccer) player. He played as a striker for Lyn, and also for the Norwegian national team. He is still the highest scoring player ever for Norway, with 33 goals out of just 45 games. What made the achievement even more significant is that he only played as a striker in 22 of those games, the rest he alternated between right-back and centre-half.
- Emil Hallfreðsson
Emil Hallfreðsson is an Icelandic football player who currently plays for F.C. Lyn Oslo. He came from Tottenham Hotspur, where he had made little impact, 10th of July, 2007. He came with a good reputation, but did not play a single game for the London club`s 1st team. Primarily a left-sided midfiled player, red-haired Hallfredsson was brought to Tottenham by then Sporting Director Frank Arnesen in January 2005, …
- Ronny Johnsen
Ronny Johnsen is a Norwegian football player. Johnsen plays as a centre back or central midfielder, but has often been sidelined because of his many injuries. He was purchased by Manchester United from Beşiktaş of Turkey in 1996. While at United, he helped the club to 4 league titles (1997, 1999, 2000, and 2001), and one FA Cup in 1999. He also contributed enormously to United's UEFA Champions League win in 1999, …
- Chinedu Ogbuke
Chinedu Obasi Ogbuke (born 1st June 1986) is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Lyn. "Edu", as he is also known in Norway, came to Norway at the same time as his countryman Mikel, and is considered to have a potential to grow to be a world class player. In June 2005 he was also linked with a move to Chelsea. Chinedu impressed in the Under-20 World Championships in Holland in the summer of 2005, and scored both in the semi-final and the final, …
- Svein Gjedrem
Svein Ingvar Gjedrem is a Norwegian economist and current Governor of the Central Bank of Norway. He graduated in political economy from the University of Oslo in 1975, worked as a consultant in the Central Bank of Norway from 1975–1979 and in the Ministry of Finance from 1979 to 1998. He has served as the Central Bank Governor since 1999. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Gjedrem played football for Viking and Lyn.
- Kristian Flittie Onstad
Kristian Flittie Onstad (born May 9, 1984) is a Norwegian professional footballer defender who currently plays for Esbjerg fB, in Denmark. Before that he played in the Norwegian club FC Lyn Oslo He comes from a little place outside of Oslo, Lahaugmoen in Skedsmo. Went to NTG (Norges Toppidrettsgymnas), had good grades as well.
- Henrik Dahl
Henrik Dahl (born May 1, 1975) is a Swedish professional footballer who currently plays for GAIS, in Sweden.
- Rasmus Daugaard
Rasmus Daugaard (born September 15, 1976) is a Danish professional footballer who currently plays for F.C. Lyn Oslo, in Norway. He started his career in Denmark with Akademisk Boldklub and FC Midtjylland.
- Ali Al al Habsi
Ali Abdullah Harib Al Habsi (born December 30, 1981 in Muscat, Oman) is an Omani goalkeeper who currently plays for Bolton Wanderers in the FA Premier League.
- Per Skou
Per Skou was a Norwegian footballer. He played left back for Odd and Lyn, and he was capped 41 times for the Norwegian national team. During this period he featured in two Olympic Games, the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics. Skou became Norwegian cup champion three times - with Lyn in 1911 and with Odd in 1913 and 1915. He was the president of the Norwegian Football Association from 1929 to 1933.
- Hassan el Fakiri
Hassan El Fakiri is a Norwegian football (soccer) player currently without a club, having left Borussia Mönchengladbach.
- Arne Brustad
Arne Brustad (April 14, 1912 - August 22, 1987) was a Norwegian footballer. He is regarded as one of the country's best players of all time. Brustad was an outside-left for Lyn. He won 33 caps for Norway, and scored 17 international goals. He was a member of Norway's "Bronze Team" from the 1936 Olympics. Brustad, who made his international debut in 1935, was one of the star players of the Berlin Olympics, where he scored five goals in four matches, …
- Jani Tanska
Jani Tanska (born July 29, 1988) is a professional footballer who plays as a central defender for MyPa. He has yet to make his first team debut for Charlton Athletic. He is a Finnish Under-19 international. He joined Norwegian side FC Lyn Oslo on loan for the 2006 season. Signed for Charlton from Finnish premier division side MyPa. Tanska made only one appearance for the Anjalankoski-side in the Finnish league before switch to London.
- Enrique Ortiz
Enrique "Quique" Ortiz is an Argentine footballer who plays for F.C. Lyn Oslo, in the Norwegian Premier League. Quique feels most at home on the wing, either as a winger or as an offensive wingback. He usually plays on the right. Ortiz spent most of his career at his local club Instituto de Córdoba, before signing for Lyn in the summer of 2005, halfway through the Norwegian season. He made his debut against Molde F.K. on August 7, 2005, …
- Einar Rossbach
Einar Rossbach is a former Norwegian footballer, who've played for Stridsklev, Ham-Kam, Tromsø, Lyn, Silkeborg, Tollnes and Pors Grenland. He was named goalie of the year in both 1987 and in 1990, and received a Kniksen award in 1990 as "Goalie of the year". VG named him "player of the year" in 1990. Rossback was capped six times for Norway. Rossbach have made comebacks for both Tollnes and Pors Grenland when the clubs struggeled with injuries on their goalies, …
- Øivind Holmsen
Øivind Holmsen was a Norwegian international footballer. He played left back for Lyn and the 1936 Olympic bronze team. He also played in the 1938 FIFA World Cup, and got 36 caps in total.
- Ståle Stensaas
Ståle Stensaas is a professional Norwegian footballer and former international. A left fullback who has spent the majority of his career at Rosenborg, he now plays for Lyn, having joined the Oslo side on a two-year contract in March 2007. Stensaas has three children: Andreas, Hanne and Sophie. He is a carpenter by profession, in addition to professional footballing. He is 179 cm tall and weighs 77 kg.
- Kjetil Wæhler
Kjetil Wæhler is a Norwegian footballer currently playing at Vålerenga as a center back. His former clubs are Lyn, Wimbledon and Moss (loan).
- Stefán Gíslason
Stefán Gíslason is an Icelandic football player currently with Brøndby IF of the Danish Superliga. Gíslason is a defensive midfielder. As a youngster he was on the roster of English giants Arsenal, but limited playing time saw him returning to Reykjavík on a loan deal. He later played for Strømsgodset, Grazer AK and Keflavík ÍF before joining Lyn in 2005. Gíslason immediately made an impression, and was eventually made vice captain.
- Thomas Wæhler
Thomas Wæhler is a Norwegian football defender who currently plays for Norwegian team Bærum SK. He has played professionally with Lyn Oslo and Strømsgodset I.F., including stints in the Norwegian Premier League in 1992-1993 and 1997-2001.