Kjetil Øvrelid Strand (born 2 October 1979) is a Norwegian former handball player.

On 2 February 2006 he scored 19 goals, a Norwegian record,[1] in a Main Group Stage game against Iceland in the European Championship.

Strand also holds the record for number of goals scored in a single season in the Norwegian league: 281.

There he made his breakthrough in the 2002/03 season, where he scored 281 goals in 25 games and became the league top scorer and handballer of the year.

In 2010 he announced that he would not extend his contract and moved back to Stavanger Håndbold, where he finished his career in 2013.