Dylan Macallister

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Dylan Macallister
Personal information
Full name Dylan Macallister
Date of birth May 17, 1982 (age 24)
Place of birth    Manly, Australia
Height 193cm
Nickname Surferboy
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current club Lyn
Youth clubs
Manly Warringah Dolphins
Olympic Sharks
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1999-2001
2002-2003
2004-2005
2006
2006
2007-present		 Olympic Sharks
Northern Spirit
Brann
Lyn
Sparta Sarpsborg (loan)
Lyn		 35 (10)
30 (5)
30 (4)
8 (1)
9 (2)
0 (0)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of December 5, 2006.
* Appearances (Goals)

Dylan Macallister (born May 17, 1982 in Manly) is an Australian footballer currently with Norwegian Premier League side Lyn of Oslo. His contract with the club lasts until 2008. Dylan Macallister has made several appearances for Australia's various age-specific teams. He participated in the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship, scoring three goals for his national side. Australia would go on to finish as runners-up behind Brazil. He later played for the U-20 team in the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship. In the qualifiers for the 2004 Olympic Football Tournament he became Australia's top scorer with six goals in seven matches.

As a youth, Macallister played for his local Manly Warringah Dolphins before moving on to Sydney Olympic (then known as the Olympic Sharks). He marked his professional debut for the club in 1999 by scoring in his first appearance. Having won the 2001-02 National Soccer League with the Sharks, Macallister proceded to join another club from Sydney, the now defunct Northern Spirit. Macallister was then supposed to have left for Switzerland and FC Aarau in August, but immediately regretted signing the contract. The transfer was eventually called off and Macallister instead continued playing for Northern Spirit until he was bought by the Norwegian club Brann in February 2004.

After some initial success – he scored two goals against Molde in the second round of the 2004 season – Dylan figured mostly as a substitute. He scored 10 goals in 38 appearances which equates to approximately 20 matches in terms of playing time. Macallister's first season was blighted by a fatigue injury and after a good start to his second season he suffered a training injury, sidelining him for eight weeks.

Macallister was sold to Lyn on March 29, 2006 and debuted in the season opener against Start. He appeared in the starting line-up in his third and fourth matches, scoring a fine goal in the fourth, but failed to become a regular.

Following the end of the transfer dispute over John Obi Mikel and subsequent return of Lyn's other Nigerian players, Chinedu Ogbuke and Ezekiel Bala, Dylan Macallister was one of three non-EU players on the team at a time when Norwegian clubs were only allowed two non-EU players in their matchday squads. He was therefore loaned out to the Adeccoliga club Sparta Sarpsborg, from August 16 until the end of the season.

During his stay at Sparta he made nine appearances, scoring two goals. Sparta retained their spot in the league, but Macallister's season ended on a dull note as he was sent off in his last game. He has now returned to Oslo.

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F.C. Lyn Oslo - Current Squad

1 Gustafsson | 2 Daugaard | 3 Gram | 4 Sigurðsson | 5 Stensaas | 6 Brink | 7 Sokolowski | 8 Gíslason | 9 Ortiz | 10 Powell | 11 Bala | 13 Larsen | 14 Holmen | 15 Knudtzon | 16 Hoff | 17 Madsen | 18 Ingebretsen | 19 Macallister | 20 Ogbuke | 21 Tessem | 22 Berntsen | 23 Eriksen | 24 Dahlin | 25 Almeyda | 27 Simonsen | 29 Dahm | 35 Flores | Coach: Berg
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