Sveinung Aarnseth (15 May 1933 – 9 March 2019) was a Norwegian footballer and dentist. Aarnseth began his football career as a forward, but was later converted to central defender. He most notably 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 ...

from 1960 to 1968, where he played a total of 113 matches, scoring 18 goals in the top division of the Norwegian league. As a member of Lyn, he won the Norwegian league twice (1964 and 1968), and the

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twice (1967 and 1968). He also won five international caps for

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, making his debut against

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in September 1964. Aarnseth also played briefly for

VVV-Venlo VVV-Venlo (, ''VVV'' stands for ''Venlose Voetbal Vereniging'' meaning "Venlo Football Club") is a Dutch association football, football club from Venlo, a city on the border with Germany. They play in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutc ...

in 1957, playing seven games in the

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and is believed to be the first-ever Norwegian in the top level of Dutch football, while simultaneously finishing his education in dentistry. He worked 40 years as a dentist at

Lysaker Lysaker is an area in Bærum Municipality, Akershus County, Norway. Lysaker is the easternmost part of Bærum and borders Oslo proper. Lysaker was initially a farming community, later becoming a residential area. Today it is primarily known as ...

and also resided in Bærum.

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1933 births 2019 deaths Norwegian men's footballers Norway men's international footballers Lyn Fotball players VVV-Venlo players Footballers from Levanger Men's association football defenders Men's association football forwards Norwegian dentists 20th-century dentists 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-footy-forward-stub