Atle Maurud (born 15 October 1970) is a retired Norwegian

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. He hails from

Gjøvik Gjøvik () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Gjøvik (town), town of Gjøvik. Some of the villages in Gjøvik include Biri, Norway, Biri, Bybrua, ...

, and played for

Gjøvik SK Gjøvik () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Gjøvik. Some of the villages in Gjøvik include Biri, Bybrua, and Hunndalen. The municipality is the 169th largest by ar ...

and

SK Gjøvik-Lyn SK Gjøvik-Lyn is a Norwegian football club based in Gjøvik, which was founded on 1 February 1902 as Sportsklubben Thor. They play in the Norwegian Second Division, the third highest division in the Norwegian football league system. Their home g ...

before joining

Hamarkameratene Hamarkameratene (), often abbreviated to HamKam or Ham-Kam, is a Norwegian professional football club based in the town of Hamar. The club was founded in 1918, originally under the name Freidig. HamKam were most recently promoted to the Elites ...

ahead of the 1994 season. He only played two

Norwegian Premier League Eliteserien () is a professional association football league in Norway and the highest level of the Norwegian football league system. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Norwegian First Division ...

games in

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, but then established himself in the first team. In the 1997 season he played for

SFK Lyn Ski- og Fotballklubben Lyn () is a Norwegian alliance sports club from Nordre Aker, Oslo. It has two sections; for association football and Nordic skiing. Until 2010 they had a third section, for top-level association football, named FK Lyn. In t ...

. He played regularly, but the team was relegated and he returned to Hamarkameratene. The team experienced a series of relegations to the

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, but was back in the

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for the 2000 season. He stayed here until 2001, when he did not get much first-team football and was loaned out to

FF Lillehammer Lillehammer Fotballklubb is a Norway, Norwegian football (soccer), football club from Lillehammer, currently playing in the 4. divisjon, the fifth tier of the Norwegian football league system. The club colors are white, and the home field is Stamp ...

. He then played for

Raufoss IL Raufoss IL is a sports club from Raufoss, Norway. The club was formed in 1918. The football section played in the Norwegian top flight between 1937 and 1948, between 1957 and 1960, in 1964 and between 1973 and 1974. The club currently plays in 1 ...

and SK Gjøvik-Lyn again.

References

Norwegian men's footballers Hamarkameratene players Lyn Fotball players Raufoss IL players Footballers from Gjøvik 1970 births Living people Eliteserien players SK Gjøvik-Lyn players Men's association football forwards {{Norway-footy-forward-stub