Michael Apelgren

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Michael Apelgren
Player information
Nickname "Apel"
birthday 20th August 1984
place of birth Stockholm , Sweden
citizenship SwedeSwede Swedish
height 1.81 m
Playing position Back center
Throwing hand right
Clubs in the youth
from ... to society
0000-0000 SwedenSweden IF Swithiod
0000-0000 SwedenSweden Djurgårdens IF
0000-2003 SwedenSweden Tyresö
Clubs as active
from ... to society
2003-2009 SwedenSweden Hammarby IF HF
2009-2010 SpainSpain BM Granollers
2010-2013 SwedenSweden IK Sävehof
2013-2014 SpainSpain BM Puerto Sagunto
2014-2016 NorwayNorway Elverum Håndball
National team
Debut on 2003
  Games (goals)
SwedenSweden Sweden 5 (15)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
2014– NorwayNorway Elverum Håndball

As of June 21, 2019

Michael Apelgren (born August 20, 1984 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish handball coach and former handball player . His height is 1.81 m. Apelgren, who played for the Swedish national team, was mainly used in the center of the back room.

Career

Michael Apelgren had a sporting background: his father Per was a soccer player and coach, his mother Lena a former national handball player. Michael himself started playing handball at IF Swithiod. At the junior age he came to BK Söder. When he was promoted to the top Swedish league a few years later, his team went to the big club Djurgårdens IF , where Apelgren only sat on the bench most of the time. He was then loaned to Djurgården's cooperation partner Tyresö. In 2003 he finally moved to the Stockholm first division club Hammarby IF and made his debut there with the first team in the Swedish elite series. At first he was mediocre in the league with the capitals, it was only under the new coach Staffan Olsson that things finally improved: in 2006 and 2007, his team won the Swedish championship and moved into the EHF Champions League .

In the 2009/10 season Apelgren played for the Spanish first division club BM Granollers . From summer 2010 he ran for the Swedish club IK Sävehof . With Sävehof he won the championship in 2011 and 2012. In the summer of 2013 he moved to the Spanish club BM Puerto Sagunto . After Apelgren took third place in the ASOBAL league's list of goalscorers with 165 goals in the 2013/14 season , he joined the Norwegian club Elverum Håndball , where he initially worked as a player-coach. Since 2016 he has only worked as a coach at Elverum Håndball. Under his leadership, Elverum won the Norwegian Championship in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and the Norwegian Cup in 2019. From the 2020/21 season he will coach the Swedish first division club IK Sävehof.

Michael Apelgren played five international matches for the Swedish national team . With the junior team he became junior world champion in 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics of the Swedish Handball Federation , accessed on January 1, 2018
  2. ↑ Apelgren till Sävehof
  3. ↑ cbmpuertosagunto.com: Michael Apelgren ficha por Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto , accessed on June 21, 2019
  4. ↑ hb-fr.handball-world.com: Elverum regulates mountain succession with player-coach , accessed on June 21, 2019
  5. ↑ hb-fr.handball-world.com: Elverum stays with Swedish head coach for the long run , accessed on June 21, 2019
  6. ↑ handball-world.com: Former HBL professional Lund in future head coach at Norway's champions Elverum , accessed on November 22, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Apelgren, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm