Per Olsson

Olsson in October 2012

Per Olsson (born August 1, 1963 ) is a Swedish former football player and current coach .

Career

Olsson started his career at Gefle IF . With the club he rose in 1982 after successes over Kalmar FF after almost fifty years of hiatus back to the Allsvenskan . With seven goals this season he was the club's most successful goalscorer in the 1983 season at the side of Mats Olausson , Lars Ytterbom and Arne Skalk and thus one of the guarantors of the club's relegation. Also in the following season he was the best scorer of the club from Gävle with five goals , but at the end of the season the team finished last in the table.

After 43 first division games, Olsson left Gefle IF and moved within the Swedish elite series. He joined league rivals Malmö FF . Under coach Roy Hodgson , however, he only came to the train sporadically when the team around Mats Magnusson , Anders Palmér , Björn Nilsson and Hasse Borg started the championship finals as first in the regular season, but failed there with two defeats against IFK Göteborg . He then moved again after only one season, the new club was the first division Halmstads BK . In front of Mats Jingblad and Per-Åke Johansson , he placed with seven goals in his first season as the best club-internal shooter, only the worse goal difference compared to the same point IFK Norrköping prevented participation in the championship final. However, the success was not permanent: With three goals this season in the following year, he was less successful and the team ended the season in 1987 on a relegation zone.

Olsson began his coaching career in the early 1990s as Stefan Lundin's assistant coach at Gefle IF. After his move to the management of the club in 1996, he rose to the main coach and looked after the team in the second division. When the Superettan was introduced at the end of the 1999 season, he and the team missed qualification in the relegation games against FC Café Opera due to the away goals rule after a 0-0 away and a 2-2 home draw. As a season winner, however, the club returned to the second division the following year. In the second division season in 2001 he missed the direct march into the Allsvenskan with the team by only one point. After an eleventh place in the following season he was replaced by Kenneth Rosén as coach, after he had switched to Allsvenskan as an assistant from Lundin to Örebro SK . The duo led the team to midfield, but after the end of the 2004 season the club had to be relegated due to financial problems.

Olsson returned to the club's coaching bench in December 2004 following the surprise death of Rosén, who had led Gefle IF to the Allsvenskan. With the team he finished the last non-relegation place, thanks to the first place in the UEFA fair play rating , the club qualified for the European Cup for the first time in its club history . In the 2006/07 UEFA Cup , however, he was eliminated in the first qualifying round after a home defeat and a draw against Welsh representatives AFC Llanelli . The success continued, however, for the first time the club held more than two seasons in the first division. From 2009 he received support from Urban Hammar , who was previously responsible for coach training and player development as a Riksinstructör at Svenska Fotbollförbundet . The coaching duo led the club back into the European Cup in 2009 via the fair play rating before the 2010 season ended on the relegation site. The team prevailed in both games against the third-placed Superettan GIF Sundsvall . After the end of the season, Hammar returned to the association, Olsson was again the sole responsible head coach. Under his leadership, the association from Gävle established itself in the Allsvenskan.

For the 2014 season, Olsson moved within the Allsvenskan as head coach to Djurgårdens IF . With the club he placed himself in the top half of the table in his first two seasons in Stockholm, despite some financially motivated player sales. However, after the team fell short of management's expectations in the first half of the 2016 season , the club separated from Olsson in early August of that year. At the beginning of 2017 he took over the coaching position at the first division promoted AFC Eskilstuna . However, this remained under his leadership until the end of May without a win in the top Swedish league, so that he was released early here too.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ expressen.se: “Gefle IF: s tränare Kenneth Rosén död”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 8, 2011)  
2. ↑ dif.se: "Pelle Olsson lämnar Djurgården Fotboll" ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 25, 2017) 
3. ↑ afc-eskilstuna.myclub.se: "Pressmedelande: AFC Eskilstuna och Pelle Olsson går skilda vägar" (accessed on June 25, 2017)