Svein-Erik Edvartsen 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...

 and ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 referee.

He debuted as a first division referee on 11 August 2002 in the game between Skeid

Skeid Fotball

Skeid Fotball is a Norwegian football club and is located in the capital Oslo. Its current home field is Bislett. In past decades it has gained a reputation as a talent factory for the larger clubs in Norwegian football, and it has produced several players for the national team such as Daniel...

 and Tromsdalen. He debuted as a referee in the Norwegian Premier League

Norwegian Premier League

Tippeligaen is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. The league is also unofficially known under its neutral name Eliteserien , although the name has never been official...

 in 2006. Edvartsen is also a referee principal in the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation

Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation

The Norwegian Ice Hockey Association is the governing body of all ice hockey, sledge hockey and in-line hockey in Norway.NIHF has its office at Ullevaal Stadium in Oslo....

 and represents Hamar IL

Hamar IL

Hamar Idrettslag is a Norwegian sports club from Hamar. It has sections for bandy, curling, association football, athletics, sport shooting, rowing, speed skating, diving, swimming, tennis and gymnastics....

 (football) and Storhamar Dragons

Storhamar Dragons

The Storhamar Dragons is an ice hockey club based in Hamar, Norway and plays in the GET-ligaen. The club also includes the largest junior department in Norwegian ice hockey.The ice hockey department of the Storhamar IL was founded on 18 March 1957...

 (hockey).
In 2010, an IK Start chairman called Edvartsen a "Tandori referee". The case received extensive press coverage.

Edvartsen is of Pakistani ancestry.