Leif Eriksson (footballer)
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Leif Anders Eriksson | ||
Date of birth | 20 March 1942 | ||
Place of birth | Köping, Sweden | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder, Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
IK Westmannia | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
–1957 | IK Westmannia | ||
1958–1960 | Köpings IS | ||
1960–1966 | Djurgårdens IF | 117 | (62) |
1966–1968 | IK Sirius | 54 | (37) |
1969–1970 | Örebro | 43 | (15) |
1970–1975 | Nice | 151 | (37) |
1975–1976 | Cannes | 29 | (9) |
1976–1978 | IK Sirius | 43 | (9) |
1979–1981 | IFK Dannemora/Österby | ||
International career‡ | |||
1959– | Sweden U18[1] | 3 | (2) |
Sweden U23[2] | 2 | (0) | |
Sweden B[3] | 10 | (10) | |
1962–1972 | Sweden[4] | 49 | (12) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 July 2007 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 July 2007 |
Leif Anders Eriksson (born 20 March 1942) is a Swedish retired footballer and bandy player.
He started his career in Sweden playing for Djurgårdens IF, IK Sirius and Örebro SK, until he joined French side OGC Nice where he was elected foreign player of the year by France Football magazine in 1972.[5] He ended his international career in another Côte d'Azur club, AS Cannes.
He was part of Sweden national team at the 1970 FIFA World Cup. He was capped 49 times and scored 12 goals.
As a bandy player, Eriksson played for Djurgårdens IF Bandy 1961–65.[6] In 1966, he won the Swedish championship final with IK Sirius.[7]
Honours
[edit]Djurgårdens IF
- Division 2 Svealand: 1961
- Allsvenskan:[8] 1964, 1966
References
[edit]- ^ Frantz, Alf; Glanell, Tomas; Persson, Gunnar, eds. (2008). Det svenska fotbollslandslaget 1908–2008 [The Swedish National Football Team 1908–2008] (in Swedish). Vällingby: CA Strömberg AB. ISBN 978-91-86184-69-8.
- ^ Frantz, Alf; Glanell, Tomas; Persson, Gunnar, eds. (2008). Det svenska fotbollslandslaget 1908–2008 [The Swedish National Football Team 1908–2008] (in Swedish). Vällingby: CA Strömberg AB. ISBN 978-91-86184-69-8.
- ^ Frantz, Alf; Glanell, Tomas; Persson, Gunnar, eds. (2008). Det svenska fotbollslandslaget 1908–2008 [The Swedish National Football Team 1908–2008] (in Swedish). Vällingby: CA Strömberg AB. ISBN 978-91-86184-69-8.
- ^ Sweden men's national football team statistics Archived 2012-06-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ foreign players of the year in France on rsssf Archived 2015-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Leif Eriksson – DIF Historia".
- ^ "Bandy".
- ^ "Förteckning över samtliga SM-guld för Djurgårdens IF på seniornivå genom tiderna" (PDF). difarkivet.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2010.
External links
[edit]- Leif Eriksson at National-Football-Teams.com
- Leif Eriksson at WorldFootball.net
Categories:
- 1942 births
- Living people
- Men's association football forwards
- Swedish men's footballers
- Sweden men's international footballers
- Swedish expatriate men's footballers
- Allsvenskan players
- Djurgårdens IF Fotboll players
- Örebro SK players
- Ligue 1 players
- OGC Nice players
- AS Cannes players
- 1970 FIFA World Cup players
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Swedish expatriate sportspeople in France
- IK Sirius Fotboll players
- Swedish bandy players
- IK Sirius Bandy players
- Djurgårdens IF Bandy players
- 20th-century Swedish sportsmen