Gunnar Leidborg

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SwedenSweden  Gunnar Leidborg Ice hockey player
Date of birth January 11, 1955
place of birth Stockholm , Sweden
size 186 cm
Weight 86 kg
position goalkeeper
Career stations
1972-1974 AIK Solna
1974-1975 VIK Västerås HK
1975-1987 AIK Solna

Gunnar Leidborg (born January 11, 1955 in Stockholm ) is a former Swedish ice hockey goalkeeper and current coach . Between 2009 and 2012 he was head coach at REV Bremerhaven in the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga .

Player career

Leidborg spent a large part of his playing career in the AIK Solna team in the Swedish Elitserien , for which he played almost exclusively in the Elitserien or their predecessor league between 1972 and 1987 - only during the 1974/75 season he was under contract with VIK Västerås HK . With AIK Solna, the goalkeeper was Swedish champion in 1982 and 1984 . In 1978 and 1981 he was also runner-up with his team. He himself was one of the most successful goalkeepers in Sweden in the 1970s and 1980s and had the best catch quota of the Elitserien in the years 1981, 1983 and 1984 , as well as the lowest goals against goals in the league in the 1983/84 season. In his last active season, the 1986/87 season, he succeeded with his club after relegation in the previous year to the second-rate Division 1, the direct promotion to the Elitserien.

International

Leidborg played a total of 25 senior international matches for the Swedish national ice hockey team .

Coaching career

Following his active career, Leidborg took over the position of head coach at the Austrian club EHC Lustenau from 1987 to 1990 . He then spent a season at Schwenninger ERC in the ice hockey Bundesliga . From 1992 to 1995 the Swede was in charge of the Augsburg Panthers , with whom he was promoted to the newly founded German Ice Hockey League in 1994 as a second division champion . In this he worked in the 1995/96 season as an assistant coach at his former club from Schwenningen. For the 1998/99 season he briefly took over the position of head coach in Augsburg again. In the following years he was able to fully establish himself in the DEL as the person in charge behind the gang and worked for Revierlöwen Oberhausen , Berlin Capitals , Kassel Huskies and Hannover Scorpions . During his time in Oberhausen, he was also named DEL trainer of the year in 2000.

From 2005 to 2008 Leidborg coached the ETC Crimmitschau , with which he was promoted to the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga in the 2005/06 season . Before the 2008/09 season he left Saxony and took over the coaching position at Nordsjælland Cobras from the Danish AL-Bank Ligaen . When he had to file for bankruptcy at the end of the season , he left it and returned to the 2nd Bundesliga, where he was responsible for the sporting success at REV Bremerhaven between 2009 and 2012 . After the end of his tenure in Bremerhaven, he went back to Sweden and was active as a coach in the youth department of BIK Karlskoga in the 2012/13 season . The following season he was the head coach of the second division IF Troja-Ljungby , but was fired in January 2014. For the 2014/15 season he took over the post of head coach at the Swedish third division club Kumla HC .

successes

  • 1978 Swedish runner-up with AIK Solna
  • 1981 Swedish runner-up with AIK Solna
  • 1981 Best catch quota in the Elitserien
  • 1982 Swedish champion with AIK Solna
  • 1983 Best catch quota in the Elitserien
  • 1984 Swedish champion with AIK Solna
  • 1984 Best catch quota in the Elitserien
  • 1984 Lowest conceded goal in the Elitserien
  • 1987 Promotion to the Elitserien with AIK Solna

As a trainer

Coach statistics

Whole season
season team league Games G V U OTL
1987/88 EHC Lustenau AUT-1
1988/89 EHC Lustenau AUT-1
1989/90 EHC Lustenau AUT-1
1990/91 Schwenninger ERC 1st BL 44 19th 20th 5 0
1992/93 Augsburg panther 2nd BL
1993/94 Augsburg panther 2nd BL
1994/95 Augsburg panther DEL 44 12 25th 7th 0
1995/96 Schwenninger Wild Wings DEL 54 31 14th 6th 3
1998/99 Augsburg panther DEL 52 22nd 19th 8th 3
2000/01 Löwen district in Oberhausen DEL 60 37 20th 0 3
2001/02 Berlin Capitals DEL 60 25th 30th 0 5
2002/03 Kassel Huskies DEL 52 26th 19th 7th 0
2003/04 Hanover Scorpions DEL 52 15th 32 0 5
2004/05 Hanover Scorpions DEL 52 21st 28 0 3
2005/06 ETC Crimmitschau OIL 58 38 17th 7th
2006/07 ETC Crimmitschau 2nd BL 59 14th 44 9
2007/08 ETC Crimmitschau 2nd BL 59 22nd 25th 12
2008/09 Nordsjælland Cobras DEN-1 36 22nd 14th
2009/10 REV Bremerhaven 2nd BL 57 24 27 6th

Legend: G = won, V = lost, U = draw, OTL = lost in overtime

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunnar Leidborg leaves the Ice Pirates. In: hockeyweb.de. 2008, accessed September 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Robert Corell: Troy sparkar Gunnar Borg suffering. In: JP. January 13, 2014, accessed on April 6, 2016 (sv-SE).
  3. ↑ Gunnar Borg suffering ny huvudtränare / Kumla Hockey. In: www.svenskalag.se. Retrieved April 6, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Leidborg, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey goalkeeper and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Sweden