Kjetil Nilsen (born 19 February 1975) is a Norwegian

football midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. ...

. He started his career in Langhus IL; and later played for

Ski IL Ski Idrettslag is a Norway, Norwegian alliance sports club from Ski, Norway, Ski, Akershus. It has sections for association football, track and field, team handball, floorball, ice hockey, tennis and gymnastics. The club colors are yellow and blue ...

, Drøbak/Frogn IF and

Lillestrøm SK Lillestrøm Sportsklubb is a Norwegian professional football club based in the city of Lillestrøm, just outside of the capital Oslo. Lillestrøm SK is a Norwegian football club based in Lillestrøm, playing in Eliteserien. The club was founde ...

. With Lillestrøm he played in the

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 ...

in 1998, 1999 and 2000. He then played for Skjetten SK and

Follo FK Follo Fotballklubb is a football club from Ski, Akershus, Norway. Follo play in light blue, and their home ground is Ski stadion. It was founded in September 2000 and their biggest achievement was playing in the 2010 Norwegian Football Cup fi ...

. In February 2009 Nilsen signed as playing assistant coach of

Modum FK Modum Fotballklubb is a Norwegian football club from Modum, founded in 2007 as a merger between the first teams of Åmot IF, IL Moingen, Vikersund IF, Haugfoss IF, Bingen BK and Geithus IL. The merger plans had been ongoing for some time. It ent ...

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1975 births Living people Norwegian men's footballers Drøbak-Frogn IL players Lillestrøm SK players Skjetten SK players Follo FK players Sportspeople from Ski, Norway Footballers from Akershus Men's association football midfielders {{Norway-footy-midfielder-stub