His last work was head coach of Atlantis FC in Finland's second highest tier, Ykkönen.
In 2005, he was sacked from Honka after only a couple of matches and moved to the coach of FC Futura in Kolmonen, the 4th highest tier and stayed in that job to the end of the season 2006.
Later after his coaching career, Lyytikäinen worked as an agent, representing several Finnish players in many international transfers.
[2] Lyytikäinen has also coached the football team of Pohjois-Haagan yhteiskoulu sports high school and was also known as the football commentator in Peliuutiset sports show in television channel YLE TV2.
Before the career of football coach Lyytikäinen was a regular star in paint product television commercials.