Steinar Ryen Strømnes (born 19 March 1987) is a retired Norwegian footballer. He hails from Roa, and moved from minnows

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to top-tier

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in 2003. He enrolled at Wang Upper Secondary School and played for Vålerenga's youth team. He featured for the senior team as a half-time substitute in the

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—in a 10–2 thrashing of Hadeland—and started both legs in the 2005-06 UEFA Cup campaign against Steaua Bucuresti. In September 2006 he made his

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debut against Start. He also made his debut for the

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. In the spring of 2007 he was loaned out to

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, and in the summer he was loaned out to

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. Ahead of the 2008 season he joined Kongsvinger permanently. Featuring scarcely in the 2009 Norwegian Premier League campaign, he went on to

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. However, the club went bankrupt after ten matches of the

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and Strømnes moved to Sweden and

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. From 2012 to 2017 he played for

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, amassing 166 league games and

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ing the team. In December 2017 he moved to

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and soon after joined Stabæk. After the end of the 2021 season, Strømnes announced his retirement.

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