Alexander Martin Fransson (born 2 April 1994) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Cypriot First Division club Omonia.

Club career

IFK Norrköping

Born in

Norrköping Norrköping (; ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Linköp ...

, Fransson joined

as a 14-year-old from Lindö FF in 2008, and played in the club's academy until 2012. He made his

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football lea ...

debut on the opening game of the 2013 season, in their away win against Mjällby AIF, the day before his 19th birthday. He made in total 20 appearances in 2013, 18 in the league and two cup games. His first Allsvenskan goal came also away at Mjällby, scoring the team's only goal in their 3–1 defeat on 14 August

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. For

he played as a midfielder. In the last round of

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, on 31 October 2015, Fransson won his first senior title as

won the Swedish championship for the first time in 26 years. Eight days later, Fransson and IFK Norrköping took their second title for the season when they defeated

2014–15 Svenska Cupen The 2014–15 Svenska Cupen was the 59th season of Svenska Cupen and the third season with the current format. The winners of the competition earned a place in the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League#Second qualifying round, second qualifying round of th ...

winners IFK Göteborg in 2015 Svenska Supercupen.

Basel

On 2 January 2016, Basel announced that they had signed Fransson on a four and a half year contract up until 30 June 2020. He joined Basel's first team for their 2015–16 season under head coach Urs Fischer. After playing in three test games, Fransson played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game in the

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on 14 February 2016 as Basel won 4–0 against

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, coming in as substitute in the 90 minute. He scored his first league goal for the club on 21 February in the home game in the St. Jakob-Park as Basel won 5–1 against Vaduz. Under trainer Urs Fischer Fransson won the

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championship at the end of the 2015–16 Super League season. Fransson played in 16 of the 18 league matches. At the end of the 2016–17 Super League season the team won the championship again. For the club this was the eighth title in a row and their 20th championship title in total. Fransson played in 25 league games. They also won the

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for the twelfth time, which meant they had won the double for the sixth time in the club's history. Frannsson played in four of the sic cup games. On 26 December 2017 Basel announced that Fransson would be loaned to

Lausanne-Sport FC Lausanne–Sport (also referred to as LS) is a Swiss football club based in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud. Founded in 1896, Lausanne Sport played in the Swiss Super League in their most recent 2021-22 season, the highest tier of football i ...

to gain more first-team opportunities. After the loan period, Fransson returned to the team, but a few days later it was announced that he would leave the club. In his three seasons with the club, Fransson played a total of 81 games for Basel scoring three goals. 51 of these games were in the

, seven in the

, seven in the UEFA competitions (Champions League and Europa League) and 16 were friendly games. He scored two goala in the domestic league and the other was scored during the cup.

Return to IFK Norrköping

On 4 July 2018,

announced that they had signed Fransson on a three-year contract until 30 June 2021.

AEK Athens

On 2 February 2022, AEK Athens announced that they had signed Fransson on a one-and-a-half-year contract. He didn't had the chance to play regular football for them. He played only in three Super League matches and four in the Greek Cup. He won the double for the 2022–23 season and he was released when his contract expired.

International career

Fransson represented the Sweden U19 national team nine times between 2012 and 2013. In November 2014, Fransson played his first game for Sweden U21. Fransson made his debut for the

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in an unofficial friendly against Estonia on 6 January 2016, played in the Armed Forces Stadium in

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. He started the match and played 55 minutes before being substituted in the 1–1 draw. His second cap followed on 10 January in a 3–0 win against Finland played at the same venue. This match was also an unofficial friendly and he came on as a substitute in the 62nd minute.

Career statistics

International

:''As of 11 January 2019.''

Honours

;IFK Norrköping *

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* Svenska Supercupen:

;Basel *

: 2015–16, 2016–17 *

winner: 2016–17 ;AEK Athens *

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* Greek Cup:

References

External links

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archive
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IFK Norrköping profile

Swiss Football League profile
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