Jan Petter Olsen
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 19 February 1965 | ||
| Position(s) | striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Skeid | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –1996 | Skeid | ||
| 1997–2002 | Årvoll | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Jan Petter Olsen (born 19 February 1965) is a retired Norwegian football striker.
He hails from Sinsen, Oslo and started playing for Skeid as a child. He also played bandy for Skeid and ishockey he have played A-football, A-Ishockey and A-bandy for the same club Skeid, and when approaching adulthood he concentrated on that sport.[1][2] He was capped three times for Norway in 1989.[3]
Olsen started playing football again at the age of 22, and scored the goal that secured Skeid's promotion from the 1995 1. divisjon.[4] He had then played bandy for Røa as late as the Norwegian Bandy Premier League 1994–95.[5]
In the 1996 Eliteserien he played 18 games for Skeid.[6] Ahead of the 1997 season he joined. Falkirk . Then Årvoll,[7] where he played for several years.[6]
