Karl-Erik Hult

Karl-Erik "Kalle" Hult (born December 18, 1936 - May 11, 2010 ) was a Swedish football coach .

Career

After his playing career, which Hult had denied at GIF Nike , who briefly played second class in the 1960s , Hult worked as a coach in Swedish football. In 1970 he took over the second division Landskrona BoIS , which he led to promotion to the Allsvenskan at the end of his first season . There he finished sixth in the table with the promoted team. Then he recruited multiple champions Malmö FF, also based in Skåne, as the successor to successful coach Antonio Durán for the following season.

Hult worked for Malmö FF for two years, after a sixth or fourth place in the table in the Swedish top division, he was replaced in early 1974 by the Englishman Bob Houghton . Meanwhile, in the summer of 1972, his former club, with whom he had contested the first round of the 1971/72 cup , won the Swedish National Cup under his successor Rolf Svensson . In the 1972/73 competition he won the cup, the reigning champion Åtvidabergs FF was outclassed by a 7-0 win in the final. This was followed by engagements at IFK Trelleborg and Lunds BK in the second and third highest division.

Hult died in May 2010 at the age of 74 after a brief illness. His brothers Leif and Nils , who became a selection player in the Swedish national team at Malmö FF in the 1960s , were also active as football players and each ran up in the Allsvenskan.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} landskronadirekt.com: "Kalle Hult död" (accessed on August 27, 2018)