Lars Bergström (ice hockey coach)

Lars Bergström
Coaching stations
1980-1991	Luleå HF
1991	Soil IK
1992-1994	B national team Sweden
1994-1998	Luleå HF
1998-2003	EC KAC
2003-2005	National team Austria
2005-2007	Malmo Redhawks
2007-2009	National team Austria
2008-2017	Luleå HF (Head of Sports)
since 2017	Brooklyn Tigers

Lars Bergström (born May 9, 1956 ) is a Swedish ice hockey coach and was the head coach of the Austrian national team between 2007 and 2009 .

Career

As a player, Bergström was active for three years in the Swedish Division 1 , at that time the second highest division in Sweden: From 1975 to 1977 he played for IFK Luleå . After its ice hockey department merged with the ice hockey players of the local competitor Luleå SK , he stood for the merged product GroKo Hockey in the 1977/78 season .

He celebrated his greatest successes as the head coach of the Austrian record ice hockey champions EC KAC from Klagenfurt, where he won the Austrian championship title in the 1999/2000 and 2000/01 seasons. In the second Swedish division he succeeded with the Malmö Redhawks in the 2005/06 season of promotion to the first-class Elitserien .

Between 2007 and 2009 Bergström was the Austrian national coach, but after the resurgence in 2008 he neither managed to keep the Austrians in the top division of the World Cup nor qualify for the 2010 Winter Olympics . Therefore, his contract was not renewed in June 2009. Then he was General Manager of Luleå HF in the Svenska Hockeyligan until 2017 , with whom he won the European Trophy in 2012 and the Champions Hockey League in 2015 . He has been General Manager of the Brooklyn Tigers youth club since 2017.

Web links

• Lars Bergström at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Austria: Lars Bergström is the new team manager. In: hockeyweb.de. Retrieved December 8, 2017 . 
2. ↑ news.at, No new contract for Lars Bergström: Austria needs a new team boss