Leif Carlsson

Leif Carlsson
Date of birth	February 18, 1965
place of birth	Ludvika , Sweden
size	196 cm
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1983 , 3rd lap, 61st position Hartford Whalers
Career stations
until 1983	Mora IK
1983-1989	Färjestad BK
1989-1991	Västra Frölunda HC
1991-1994	Färjestad BK
1994-1995	EHC Biel
1995-1996	Färjestad BK
1996-2000	Polar bears Berlin
2000-2001	Territory lions Oberhausen
2001-2003	Grums IK
2003-2004	Ludvika HC

Leif Carlsson (born February 18, 1965 in Ludvika ) is a former Swedish ice hockey player who was active in the German ice hockey league for the Eisbären Berlin and Revierlöwen Oberhausen , among others . Since the end of his career he has been working as a trainer and functionary.

Career

player

Carlsson began his career in 1983 with Mora IK before moving to Färjestad BK in the Swedish Elitserien a year later . With Färjestad he won the Swedish championship in 1986 and 1988 . In the summer of 1989 he moved to league rivals Västra Frölunda HC , for which he was active for two seasons and then returned to Färjestad for the 1991/92 season. The striker won with his team in 1993 in the Swiss Davos the Spengler Cup . In the 1994/95 season, Carlsson was in the squad of the EHC Biel , with whom he in the top Swiss league, the National League A , was active. There he completed a total of 33 games and scored 17 points scorer . At the end of the season he returned to Sweden for Färjestads BK.

Carlsson stayed with Färjestad BK until 1996 and then signed a contract with Eisbären Berlin from the German Ice Hockey League. With the Berliners he was able to reach third place in the European Hockey League in 1999 . After his contract was not renewed in the summer of 2000, he joined the Revierlöwen Oberhausen, who also played in the DEL at that time. After a sixth place after the main round, he successfully qualified with the Revierlöwen for the play-offs. There the team lost 3-0 against the Munich Barons . At the end of the 2000/01 season he left Oberhausen again after a year. In the next three years he played for Grums IK and Ludvika HC, where he ended his active ice hockey career in 2004.

Trainer and functionary

From January 2006 to the end of the 2005/06 season , Carlsson worked as an assistant coach at his former club Färjestad BK in the Elitserien and won the championship there . Between 2006 and 2010 he coached Skåre BK in Division 1 before he was again assistant coach at Färjestad in the 2010/11 season and succeeded the dismissed Niklas Czarnecki as the team's head coach in January 2012 . This was followed by two more seasons with the Färjestad gang, before the Swede switched to the position of sports director in the summer of 2014 and also acted as assistant coach for the 2014/15 Siaosn .

In the 2017/18 season he was head coach at Leksands IF from HockeyAllsvenskan .

Since January 2020 he has been the head coach of EV Landshut in the DEL2 .

Achievements and Awards

player

• 1986 Swedish champion with Färjestad BK
• 1988 Swedish champion with Färjestad BK
• 1993 Spengler Cup win with Färjestad BK
• 1999 Third place in the European Hockey League with the Eisbären Berlin

Trainer

• 2006 Swedish champion with Färjestad BK
• 2011 Swedish champion with Färjestad BK

DEL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	5	266	32	107	139	86
Playoffs / -downs	3	23	4th	9	13	8th

Web links

• Leif Karlsson at hockeydb.com (English)
• Leif Carlsson at hockeydb.com (English)
• Leif Carlsson at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Axel Kammerer on leave: Leif Carlsson is the new head coach at EV Landshut. In: idowa.de. Retrieved January 17, 2020 .