Steinar Ryen Strømnes (born 19 March 1987) is a Norwegian footballer who plays for HamKam. He hails from Roa, and moved from minnows Hadeland 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 Norwegian Premier League debut against Start. He also made his debut for the Norway national under-21 football team. In the spring of 2007 he was loaned out to HamKam, and in the summer he was loaned out to Kongsvinger. Ahead of the 2008 season he joined Kongsvinger permanently. Featuring scarcely in the

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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 Strømmen, amassing 166 league games and

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ing the team. In December 2017 he moved to Bekkestua and soon after joined Stabæk.

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