Benny Lennartsson

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Benny Lennartsson
Personnel
birthday December 14, 1942
place of birth Örebro ,  Sweden
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1954– Örebro SK
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1960-1969 Örebro SK 117 (6)
1969 Fulham FC
1969-1975 FC Monthey
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1974-1975 FC Monthey
1975-1988 Örebro SK
1979-1980 IFK Sundsvall
1980-1985 Sweden U-21
1985-1988 Sweden Olympics
1988-1991 Viking FK
1990-1991 Norway U-21
1992 SK Brann
1993-1995 BK Forward
1995-1998 Lyngby FC
1998-1999 Bristol City
2000-2002 Viking FK
2003 Viborg FF
2007 IK start
2009 GAIS (Co-Tr.)
2010 Ivory Coast (Co-Tr.)
1 Only league games are given.

Benny Lennartsson (born December 14, 1942 in Örebro ) is a former Swedish football player who, following his active career, worked as a coach mainly in Northern Europe and won several titles in Norway. He has also been working as a soccer coach since the 1970s .

Career

Lennartsson began his football career in his home town at Örebro SK . With the club he played for several years in the Allsvenskan . From there he moved to England for Fulham in 1968 , before moving to the Swiss club FC Monthey only a short time later , where he was active until the end of his career.

At FC Monthey, Lennartsson started as a player-coach in 1974. In 1975 he returned to his home country and took over the coaching position at his home club ÖSK. After he was able to lead the team to fifth place in the Swedish elite series in the 1976 season , they found themselves in a relegation battle from the following season. After relegation in 1978 he left the club and went to the first division promoted IFK Sundsvall , whom he oversaw two seasons.

In 1980 Lennartsson accepted an offer from Svenska Fotbollförbundet and took over the management of the Swedish U21 selection . He looked after this until 1985, before he was transferred to the coaching position in the Olympic selection. With the team he qualified for the 1988 Olympic Games . Parallel to the coaching position in the selection, he also took over the coaching post in the Norwegian second division Viking FK in 1988 as the successor to Svein Kvia . In the group stage of the Olympic football tournament , the team , which was peppered with players such as Martin Dahlin , Anders Limpar or Jan Hellström , was able to take first place unbeaten in front of the German Olympic team , but failed in the quarter-finals after extra time due to the Italian Olympic selection. After the end of the tournament Lennartsson left the association and concentrated on his work at the club. He led this back to the first division and in 1989 to win the cup. In 1990 he returned to the work of the association and, parallel to his work at Viking FK at the Norges Fotballforbund, he took care of Norway's U21 selection .

Despite winning the Norwegian championship title and being awarded the Kniksenprisen as coach of the year, Lennartsson ended both previous activities in 1991 and was inherited by Arne Larsen Økland at Viking FK and by his previous assistant Nils Johan Semb in the U21 team . The new coaching station was SK Brann , where he worked as an assistant to Karl Gunnar Björklund .

In 1993 Lennartsson returned to Sweden and took over the coaching position at BK Forward in his hometown of Örebro. With the club he finished in the back places in the second-rate Division 1 in three seasons . Therefore he followed a call from Denmark in 1995 and took over the supervision of Lyngby FC in the Superliga . In three years he reached places in the midfield of the league with the club. After the end of his contract in 1998 there was speculation about an involvement with Standard Liège , after he had been courted by Feyenoord Rotterdam or Helsingborgs IF in previous years . In October he succeeded John Ward as a coach at Bristol City in the First Division , but was replaced by Tony Pulis after the end of the season .

In 2000 Lennartsson returned to Viking FK as the successor to Poul Erik Andreasen . Under his leadership, the club was third in the league in the following two seasons and won the Norwegian Cup in 2001. In the 2002/03 UEFA Cup , the team was able to surprise in the first round when Chelsea were knocked out of the competition after a 2-1 away defeat in the first leg by a 4-2 win in the second leg. In the second round, the club failed because of the Spanish representative Celta Vigo and Lennartsson then announced his departure.

In April 2003 Lennartsson returned to Denmark as a coach and took over as the successor to the shot Søren Kusk the coaching post at Viborg FF in the Superliga. He signed a contract until the end of the season to help the club stay up. Under his leadership, the club, which had previously only won five times over the course of the season, managed six wins and ended the season seven points ahead of a relegation zone.

Lennartsson then ended his coaching career and moved to France. He returned to Svenska Fotbollförbundet and worked for the association as a spy for the qualifying matches of the Swedish national team . In September 2007 he gave in to the recruitment of the Norwegian club IK Start , which was in a relegation battle and had dismissed coach Stig Inge Bjørnebye , and took over as coach with Alexander Axén as an assistant. However, he missed the goal with the team as penultimate and the club rose to the second division. Nevertheless, the Swedish clubs GAIS and Örebro SK, as the successor to Patrick Walker and the interim solution Urban Hammar , were interested in signing the duo.

In early August 2009, Lennartsson returned to the coaching bench again, as the relegation-threatened GAIS signed him as co-coach of Axén until the end of the Allsvenskan season in 2009 . After the successful relegation, he gave up the post at the end of the year. In May of the following year, Sven-Göran Eriksson brought him to the coaching staff of the Ivory Coast national team . With the national team he failed in the preliminary round of the 2010 World Cup despite a 2-0 win against the North Korean national team as third in the group behind Brazil and Portugal .

successes

  • Kniksenprisen as coach of the year: 1991, 2000
  • Norwegian champion: 1991
  • Norwegian Cup Winner: 1989, 2001

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ without the usage data for the game years 1961 and 1962
  2. ↑ a b "Benny Lennartsson current for Standard Liege" - article at aftonbladet.se (accessed on December 27, 2008)
  3. ^ "A List Of All Bristol City Managers" - compilation at clubfanzine.com (accessed December 27, 2008)
  4. ↑ "Viking røk ut i Bennys avskjed" - article at vg.no (accessed on December 27, 2008)
  5. ↑ "Lennartsson accepts Viborg challenge" - Article at euro08.ch  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 27, 2008)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / euro08.ch  
  6. ^ "Lennartsson till Start - tar med sig Axén" - article at aftonbladet.se (accessed on December 27, 2008)
  7. ↑ "Gais jagar svenskt succepar från Norge - Lennartsson / Axén" - article at fotbollskanalen.se  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 27, 2008)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / fotbollskanalen.se  
  8. ↑ gais.se: "Lennartsson förstarkker" ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 13, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gais.se
  9. ↑ eurosport.se: "Lennartsson assisterar" Svennis "" (accessed on July 5, 2010)

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personal data
SURNAME Lennartsson, Benny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Örebro , Sweden