Kim Nilsson

Kim Nilsson
Personal information
birthday	March 28, 1988
place of birth	Kalmar ,  Sweden
Size	193 cm
Player related information
position	striker
Clubs in the youth
	FBC Kalmarsund
Clubs as active 1
Years	society	Sp	T	A.	Pt
2005-2008	FBC Kalmarsund	76	124	78	202
2008-2014	AIK Innebandy	180	220	141	361
2014-2016	Grasshopper Club Zurich	59	91	48	139
2016–	FBC Kalmarsund
National team 2
	Sweden U19	15th	14th	12	26th
	Sweden	67	74	51	125
1 Only league and playoff games are given. As of September 20, 2016 2 As of September 13, 2016

Kim Nilsson (born March 28, 1988 in Kalmar , Sweden ) is a Swedish floorball player . Nilsson is one of the best and most famous floorball players. With the national team he became world champion in Gothenburg in 2014 . The shooting star of the scene is the highest paid player in floorball and his transfer from AIK to Karlsmund in 2016 is a new record with a transfer number of 1.4 million SEK . He is married to Kim Plattner.

Career

Nilsson started playing floorball at the age of 6 and played football as a child. In floorball he went through all the junior teams of Farjestadens IBK (since 2011 the club has been called FBC Kalmarsund ) on the Swedish island of Öland . With him as a striker, the club rose from the third-class Division 1 to the Svenska Superligan within two years from 2005 to 2007 . After Kalmarssund's relegation, he moved to AIK Innebandy in summer 2008 . With them he reached the superfinal in the first season, but could not win it.

At the Floorball World Cup in Finland in 2010 he reached the final against the hosts with the national team , but they lost it 6-2. Two years later at the Floorball World Cup in 2012 he reached the final again with the national team, this time the Swedish selection won. Nilsson was elected to the All-Star-Team, was top scorer with 22 points and received the MVP -Trophy as best player. This award was given for the first time at a men's World Cup. In 2014 he was able to win the world title again together with the Swedish national team and was also elected to the Allstar team.

In 2014, Kim Nilsson separated from his equipment supplier Unihoc and signed a 5-year contract with floorball equipment supplier Salming . He won the world title again with the national team. In the same year he also announced his move from the Swedish first division club AIK Innebandy to the Swiss NLA to the Grasshopper Club Zurich . There he received a 2-year contract with an annual salary of 100,000 francs , the transfer was financed by private sponsors. In the contract it was also agreed that he would return to the AIK Innebandy after the 2 years. With GC he won the Swiss championship title in 2016 and was elected MVP of the season.

Back from Switzerland, he moved back to his parent club FBC Kalmarsund, which played in the second-class Allsvenskan Södra at the time, for a record transfer sum of 1.4 million SEK (around 160,000 Swiss francs or almost 150,000 euros) . In the run-up to the transfer, AIK even asked for a transfer fee of SEK 1.8 million. He signed a two-year contract with the Ölanders. In the 2017/2018 season he was promoted to the Svenska Superligan with Kalmarsund.

Web links

• IFF Player Card
• Player profile on innebandy.se
• Player profile on Swissunihockey
• Change to the Grasshopper Club Zurich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rasmus Sundstedt. (No longer available online.) In: Innebandy magazinet. AIK, archived from the original on September 20, 2016 ; Retrieved September 21, 2016 (Swedish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} How Kim Nilsson Became World's Most Expensive Floorball Player. In: Floorballmag. August 6, 2016, accessed September 21, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Kim Nilsson: Biography. Archived from the original on June 22, 2007 ; Retrieved September 20, 2016 (Swedish). 
4. ↑ The Allstar Team. (No longer available online.) Men's Floorball World Cup 2012, archived from the original on December 23, 2016 ; accessed on September 20, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Men's WFC 2014 All Star Team. 2014 Men's Floorball World Championship, accessed September 20, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Daniel Weissenbrunner: The Swedish Messi (as): Kim Nilsson has the status of a rock star . In: Aargauer Zeitung . December 12, 2014 ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed on September 20, 2016]).
7. ↑ Wiki and Nilsson MVPs for the 2015/16 season. Swiss Unihockey , June 17, 2016, accessed on September 20, 2016 .