lunov's contract with odd was not renewed after the 2010 season, and he went on to strømsgodset if. here he was the head of player development and became assistant manager. he left in 2014 to reunite with his old manager ronny deila in celtic f.c., but the tenure was short and lunov returned to strømsgodset shortly before deila was sacked as celtic manager. ahead of the 2018 season lunov left strømsgodset and became the assistant manager of vålerenga fotball under ronny deila. when deila resigned near new years' eve of 2019, lunov was put in charge of the team.