Johan Karlsson (soccer player)
| Johan Karlsson | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | April 6, 1975 | |
| place of birth | Linkoping , Sweden | |
| position | Defender | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Horn / Hycklinge IF | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1998-2000 | Åtvidabergs FF | 78 (7) |
| 2001-2011 | IF Elfsborg | 263 (7) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Johan Karlsson (born April 6, 1975 in Linköping ) is a Swedish former football player . The defender played in over 250 games in the Allsvenskan . With IF Elfsborg he won the Swedish championship title in the 2006 season and the national cup three years earlier.
Career
Karlsson started playing football at Horn / Hycklinge IF . With the club he played in the lower class amateur area before he joined the second division Åtvidabergs FF in 1998 . In Division 1 Södra he reached seventh place in the table with the team, which meant the direct qualification for the newly introduced single-track second division Superettan . After the team there in the opening season 2000 occupied only one relegation place, Karlsson left the club.
Karlsson's new employer was the first division club IF Elfsborg. At first he was one of the supplementary players there, so that he was used in 15 games in his first season for the new club. In the following years he established himself as a regular in the defense line and played over 20 of the 26 season games. In 2003 he moved with the team to the final of the Swedish National Cup , in which Assyriska Föreningen was defeated with two goals from Lars Nilsson with a 2-0 win. Three years later he played in all 26 league games and thus made a decisive contribution to winning the Lennart Johansson Cup for the Swedish national champions. In the following years he was one of the top performers of the club and was regularly in the club's starting lineup under coach Magnus Haglund at the side of Jari Ilola , Johan Sjöberg and Teddy Lučić . In the 2011 season he played another 25 season games as a regular player, but ended his career at the end of the season. For IF Elfsborg he had played 263 games in the highest Swedish league at that time.
Web links
- Johan Karlsson in the database of the Swedish Football Association (Swedish)
- Johan Karlsson in the database of weltfussball.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karlsson, Johan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linköping , Östergötland County, Sweden |