Jörgen Lennartsson

Jörgen Lennartsson
Personal information

Date of birth	(1965-04-10) 10 April 1965
Place of birth	Växjö, Sweden
Club information
Current team	IFK Göteborg (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1980–1983	Växjö Norra IF
1984–1986	FK Växjö
Teams managed
1979–1988	Växjö Norra IF (Youth team)
1989	Vederslöv/Dänningelanda IF
1990–1993	Östers IF (U20 coach)
1994–1999	Helsingborgs IF (U20 coach)
2000–2001	Helsingborgs IF (assistant coach)
2002–2004	BK Häcken
2005	Sweden U17
2005	Sweden U21 (assistant coach)
2006–2010	Sweden U21
2011	Stabæk
2012–2013	IF Elfsborg
2015–	IFK Göteborg
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Jörgen Lennartsson (born 10 April 1965 in Växjö) is a Swedish football manager.

Career

He took over Elfsborg from Magnus Haglund who had been in Elfsborg for 8 years, but moved to be the trainer in Lillestrøm SK. Jörgen had been under Elfsborgs radar for a long time, not only for his achievements with the U-21, the bronze medal in UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, but mostly for his passion to football and his strong authority and leadership. He has a lot of knowledge about football and experience as a trainer after 20 years at the sideline. His first player to buy was Joackim Jørgensen from Sarpsborg 08 in Norway, a player as he described was much alike Jari Ilola. He will play in the Europa League Q 2012/13 with Elfsborg.

Lennartsson at a press conference during his time in charge of the Sweden national under-21 football team.

Lennartsson is former manager of Stabæk, where he started January 2011. Before Stabæk, he was the manager of the Swedish U21 team after he was held in many positions in various clubs in Sweden, the majority of which were youth coach and assistant manager positions.

After the appointment of Erik Hamrén as the head coach of the Sweden national football team there was speculation about Lennartsson being appointed assistant coach.^[1]

On August 2, 2010, Stabæk announced that Lennartson would take over as head coach, and replace Jan Jönsson on January 1, 2011. But only after one season in Stabæk Jörgen had to leave his post as a manager due to Stabæks big economic problems. Before Allsvenskan season 2012 Jörgen signed a 4-year contract as a head manager for IF Elfsborg.^[2]

On 30 September 2013, IF Elfsborg sacked manager Jörgen Lennartsson. ^[3]

References

External links

Profile at the Swedish football association

Jörgen Lennartsson - Navigation boxes

BK Häcken – managers

Andersson (1946–47)
Lindqvist (1948–52)
Hed (1956–57)
Larsson (1958–59)
Simonsen (1960–61)
Jonsson (1962–65)
Johansson (1966–67)
Larson (1968–70)
Andersson (1971)
Lundgren & Palle (1972–73)
Lundgren & Jonsson (1974)
Lundgren & Tingvall (1975)
Lundgren & Fridlund (1976)
Fridlund & C. Nilsson (1976)
Fridlund & Simonsson (1977–78)
Simonsson (1979–82)
Almqvist (1983)
Sjöström (1984–86)
Jangvik (1987–88)
Lundin & Almqvist (1989–91)
Almqvist & Karlsson (1992)
Almqvist (1993)
Pettersson (1996–2000)
T. Nilsson (2001)
Lennartsson (2002–04)
Lundin (2005–06)
Almqvist (2006–07)
Karlsson (2007–09)
Gerhardsson (2009–)

Sweden national under-21 football team – managers

Grip (1979–80) B. Lennartsson (1980–85) Andersson (1987–90) Lagerbäck (1990–95) Söderberg (1995–97) Mattsson (1998–99) Göransson (1999–2001) Nilsson (2002–04) J. Lennartsson & Söderberg (2004–10) Ericson & Söderberg (2011–12) Ericson (2013–)

IF Elfsborg – managers

Larsson (1916–25)
Börjesson (1926)
Larsson (1926–30)
Skolaut (1930)
Larsson & Claesson (1930–38)
Zachrisson (1938–46)
Mahon (1946–49)
Grahn (1949–52)
Jonasson (1952–54)
Vogel (1954–57)
Nygren (1957–58)
Zachrisson (1959–60)
Grahn (1961–62)
Neschy (1963)
Nygren (1963–67)
Karlsson (1968–69)
Nygren (1970–72)
Hedén (1973–75)
Lindblom (1976)
Lindroth (1976)
Svensson (1977–82)
Eriksson (1983)
Hedén (1984)
Målberg (1985–86)
Andersson (1987)
Ohlsson (1987)
Mak (1988–90)
Målberg (1990)
Lindbom (1991–92)
Sandberg (1993–94)
Linderoth (1995–97)
Björklund (1998–99)
Strömberg (1999–2001)
Grönhagen (2002–03)
Haglund (2004–11)
Lennartsson (2011–13)
Ingesson (2013–14)
Mian (2014)
Haglund (2015–)

IFK Göteborg – managers

Bródy (1921–23)
Svensson (1924–29)
Hjelm (1930)
Svensson (1931–32)
Hjelm (1933–38)
Morris (1938–40)
Andersson (1941–42)
Svensson (1943)
Nagy (1943–48)
Rydberg (1948–49)
Mahon (1949–53)
Ohlsson (1953–54)
Probst (1954–58)
Stroh (1959–60)
Gren (1960)
Hansson (1961–62)
Brodd (1963–66)
Johansson (1967–70)
Karlsson (1971–73)
Hansson (1974)
Berghamn (1975–76)
Karlsson (1977–78)
Eriksson (1979–82)
Bengtsson (1982)
Westerberg (1983–84)
Bengtsson (1985–87)
Pettersson (1988–89)
Gustafsson (1990–95)
Jingblad (1996–98)
Almqvist (1998–99)
Lundin (1999–2002)
Gustafsson (2002)
Johansson (2003–04)
Erlandsen (2005–06)
Pettersson (2006)
Olsson & Rehn (2007–10)
Olsson (2010–11)
Stahre (2012–14)
Lennartsson (2015–)

IFK Göteborg – current squad

1 Alvbåge 2 Salomonsson 3 Pearce 4 Aleesami 6 Eriksson 8 Rieks 9 Ankersen 11 Smedberg-Dalence 12 Sandberg 13 Svensson 14 Jónsson 15 Mikkelsen 16 Boman 19 Engvall 22 Johansson 23 Dyrestam 24 Pettersson 25 Hagman 26 Bohm 27 Nordström 28 Rogne 29 Vibe 30 Bjärsmyr (c) Manager: Lennartsson

Allsvenskan managers

Alm Andersson Axén Bergstrand Cedergren Eklund Franzén Gerhardsson Haglund Hansen Hareide Jönsson Larsson Lennartsson Olsson Sandberg Swärdh