Roy Helge Olsen is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 referee from Trondheim

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

, representing Flekkerøy IL

Flekkerøy IL

Flekkerøy Idrettslag, also called Fløy is a Norwegian sports club from Flekkerøya in Kristiansand. It has sections for association football and team handball....

 from Kristiansand

Kristiansand

-History:As indicated by archeological findings in the city, the Kristiansand area has been settled at least since 400 AD. A royal farm is known to have been situated on Oddernes as early as 800, and the first church was built around 1040...

. He started as a referee in 1979 and was a referee in FIFA

FIFA

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 from 1992 to 2002. He has refereed over 30 national matches at different age groups, both men and women, in addition to 28 matches in the European Cup

UEFA Champions League

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. In 1991, he refereed the Norwegian Cup Final between Strømsgodset

Strømsgodset

Strømsgodset is a former municipality in Vestfold county , Norway, today a part of the city of Drammen.-History:Strømsgodset was originally a small rural annex to the city parish of Bragernes...

 and Rosenborg

Rosenborg B.K.

Rosenborg Ballklub is a Norwegian football club from the city of Trondheim, currently playing in the Norwegian Premier League. With 22 league titles and nine Norwegian Cup titles, the club is the most successful in Norway and has dominated Norwegian football since the start of the 1990s...

, as well as the Norwegian Cup Final between Vålerenga and Strømsgodset in 1997. He also refereed the European Championship for U-18 in England in 1993.

Olsen won the Kniksen award

Kniksen award

The Kniksen award , established in 1990, acclaims the best players in the Norwegian football premiership. The award is named after the legendary Norwegian football player Roald Jensen, nicknamed "Kniksen".-Category A:...

for Referee of the year in 1993.