Idar Lysgård

{{short description|Norwegian footballer (born 1994)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Idar Lysgård

| image =

| fullname = Idar Nordby Lysgård

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1994|9|25|df=y}}

| birth_place =

| height = 1.91 m

| position = Goalkeeper

| currentclub = Vasalund

| clubnumber = 30

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Ihle

| youthyears2 = –2011

| youthclubs2 = Raufoss

| years1 = 2012–2017

| clubs1 = Skeid

| caps1 = 120

| goals1 = 0

| years2 = 2018

| clubs2 = Kongsvinger

| caps2 = 0

| goals2 = 0

| years3 = 2018

| clubs3 = → Skeid (loan)

| caps3 = 7

| goals3 = 0

| years4 = 2019–2020

| clubs4 = Skeid

| caps4 = 45

| goals4 = 0

| years5 = 2021

| clubs5 = Mjøndalen

| caps5 = 8

| goals5 = 0

| years6 = 2022–2023

| clubs6 = Åsane

| caps6 = 58

| goals6 = 0

| years7 = 2024

| clubs7 = KFUM Oslo

| caps7 = 0

| goals7 = 0

| years8 = 2025–

| clubs8 = Vasalund

| caps8 = 3

| goals8 = 0

| pcupdate = 15 April 2025

}}

Idar Nordby Lysgård (born 25 September 1994) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Vasalund.

He hails from Eina{{cite news|url=https://www.glomdalen.no/kil-toppfotball/fotball/sport/kil-signerte-keeper-ruver-i-feltet-og-er-god-pa-streken/s/5-19-408010|title=KIL signerte keeper: – Ruver i feltet og er god på streken|last=Danielsen|first=Henning|date=20 December 2017|work=Glåmdalen|language=no|access-date=29 November 2021}} and played youth football for Ihle and Raufoss. In 2012 he got his senior debut for Skeid, first in the cup and then once in the league. The team was languishing on the fourth tier at the time, but advanced to the third, and Lysgård became the first-choice goalkeeper.{{NFF|3346050}}

After the 2017 season he was picked up by Kongsvinger, but did not play and returned to Skeid, first on loan and then permanently.{{Soccerway|idar-lysgard/531132}}{{cite news|url=https://www.kil.no/nyheter/lysgard-og-kil-skiller-lag|title=Lysgård og KIL skiller lag|date=18 January 2019|publisher=Kongsvinger IL|language=no|access-date=29 November 2021}} He played two more seasons with Skeid, being relegated from the second tier in 2019 and narrowly missing re-promotion through a playoff loss in 2020. In 2021 he joined first-tier club Mjøndalen. Benched the 22 first games, he became the first choice after Mjøndalen's 0–7 loss to Haugesund.

Lysgård trained with IK Start during the 2023–24 transfer window.

He did not join Start, but later signed for KFUM in the Eliteserien. He played two games in the 2024 cup.

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