Eiton Andreas Augustsson (born 26 November 1976) is a
Swedish
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retired
footballer
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who played as a
defender. He made his professional debut in
Twente
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, before he moved to Norway in 2001 where in played for
Raufoss
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,
Vålerenga
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and
Sandefjord
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. Augustsson later returned to his native Sweden, where he won the
Allsvenskan
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with
IF Elfsborg
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in 2006. After a spell in Danish club
AC Horsens, he returned to Elfsborg in 2011. After winning his second Allsvenskan title with Elfsborg in 2012, he joined
GAIS ahead of the 2013 season.
Career
Hailing from
Häljarp
Häljarp is a locality situated in Landskrona Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 2,795 inhabitants in 2010.
Häljarp has several schools, a supermarket, two pizzerias and a train station connected to West Coast Line (Sweden). Häljarp has ...
, Augustsson played for
Häljarp IL before he joined
Malmö FF
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's youth squad. He transferred to
rivaling club Helsingborg IF
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in 1992, where he was included in the first-team squad without playing any matches. He moved to
Twente
Twente ( nl, Twente , Tweants dialect: ''Tweante'') is a region in the eastern Netherlands. It encompasses the most urbanised and easternmost part of the province of Overijssel. Twente is most likely named after the Tuihanti or Tvihanti, a Germ ...
in 1995, where he failed to make a break-through in the first team, and played only three league-matches during his time in the
Netherlands
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. Augustsson moved back to
Scandinavia
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in 1998 and joined
Norwegian First Division
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side
Raufoss
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. He was brought to the
Tippeligaen
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side
Vålerenga
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ahead of the 2000 season, as one of
Tom Nordlie
Tom Nordlie (born 2 March 1962) is a Norwegian football coach. He has managed several top Norwegian football teams.
Playing career
Nordlie was not a footballer himself, but he did play for the national water polo team.
He has his education from ...
's first signings. After Vålerenga's relegation from Tippeligaen, he was playing regularly when the team won promotion back to Tippeligaen in 2001. Because of injuries, he only made one appearance in the 2002 season.
The defender returned to the second tier in 2003, when he signed a contract with
Sandefjord
Sandefjord () is a city and the most populous municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The municipality of Sandefjord was established on 1 January 1838. The municipality of Sandar was merged into Sandefjord on 1 January 1969. On 1 ...
. The club narrowly missed out on promotion to the Tippeligaen several times during Augustsson spell at the club. In a match against one of Sandefjord's challengers for promotion in 2004,
Aalesund, Augustsson got a
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, towards the end of the first half, for biting the opponent
goalkeeper
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Kim Deinoff in the arm.
Augustsson said after the match that he was stuck underneath a few players and was struck by panic, but the next day he apologized to Deinoff. Despite playing half the match with ten players, Sandefjord won 2–0.
Sandefjord won promotion to
Tippeligaen
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for the first time in history in 2005, after they won 4–2 against promotion-challengers
Moss
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in the decisive match. Augustsson scored one of Sandefjord's goals, while his teammate
Andreas Tegström scored a hat-trick. Augustsson left the club after the season.
Ahead of the 2006 season, Augustsson transferred to Swedish club
IF Elfsborg
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where he scored a goal in his first match in the
Allsvenskan
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, against
IFK Göteborg
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on 20 April 2006. He established himself as a regular in the team's defense alongside
Jon Jönsson
Jon Martin Olof Jönsson (born 8 July 1983) is a Swedish former footballer who played as a defender.
Career
Jönsson made his first team debut in IFK Hässleholm aged 15, and his talent was recognised by Tottenham Hotspur who brought him to ...
,
and Augustsson scored a total of three goals in 26 games when the team won the
2006 Allsvenskan. After playing for the club for three seasons, he left Sweden and transferred to the
Danish Superliga
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side
AC Horsens, where he signed a contract lasting until the summer of 2011. Augustsson was the team's captain while playing for Horsens. In October 2010, he expressed a desire to return to Elfsborg, as he had built a new house in
Sandared.
Augustsson returned to Sweden and re-joined Elfsborg in January 2011, six months before his contract with Horsens expired.
With
Jörgen Lennartsson
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Career
Lennartsson was born in Växjö. He took over Elfsborg from Magnus ...
as head coach, Augustsson made 17 appearances when Elfsborg again won the Allsvenskan in 2012. The club did not want to renew Augustsson's contract, which expired after the 2012-season, and he joined the
Superettan
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side GAIS along with
Joel Johansson,
Mohammed Abdulrahman, Marcus Jakobssen and Hampus Andersson in January 2013. Augustsson signed a two-year contract with the club.
Personal life
Augustsson comes from a family of footballers, and his father, former footballer
Bo Augustsson was assistant coach and player developer in Sandefjord during Andreas' spell at the club. In 2005, his brother
Jakob also joined the club. Their third brother,
Johan Johan
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is also a footballer. Bo's brother
Jörgen
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Jörgen is known for ...
was a part of the
Sweden national team for the
1974 World Cup. Andreas' cousins
Jimmie
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* Jimmie An ...
and
Christian
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are also footballers.
References
External links
*
Elite Prospects profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Augustsson, Andreas
1976 births
Living people
People from Landskrona Municipality
Swedish men's footballers
Malmö FF players
Helsingborgs IF players
FC Twente players
Raufoss IL players
Vålerenga Fotball players
Sandefjord Fotball players
IF Elfsborg players
AC Horsens players
GAIS players
Eredivisie players
Norwegian First Division players
Eliteserien players
Allsvenskan players
Danish Superliga players
Superettan players
Swedish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Expatriate men's footballers in Norway
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Norway
Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from Skåne County