Carl-Erik Stockenberg (; 11 June 1925 – 30 June 1985) was a Swedish

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

player, who played as a back player. He was a prolific goalscorer and also skilled at blocking shots from opponents. ' He was a Swedish champion with

IFK Kristianstad Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Kristianstad (), or IFK Kristianstad, is a Swedish handball club based in Kristianstad. They play in Handbollsligan, the top level of Swedish men's handball. The club was founded in 1899 as a multi-sport club. The h ...

three times

1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

and

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...

. Stockenberg was the top scorer of

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 ...

five years in a row from 1949–50 to 1953–54. In total he played 184 matches and scored 720 goals in Allsvenskan for Kristianstad. In 1956 he joined league rivals IFK Borås, where he played for a single season, playing 18 matches and scoring 71 goals. In 1957 he signed for Guif, where he played until 1967. The team played in Allsvenskan for six of Stockenberg's ten seasons at the club. In these six seasons, he played 85 matches and scored 380 goals. In total, he scored 1171 goals in the top division, making him the first player to score 1000 goals in the league. He also played 59 matches for

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, winning first 1948

IHF World Men's Outdoor Handball Championship IHF World Men's Outdoor Handball Championship was the world championship of field handball and was organized by the International Handball Federation (IHF) in the period 1948–1966. The first edition was organized by the International Amateur ...

and after that

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1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...

. He played all three matches and scored 10 goals, making him the highest scoring Swedish player in the tournament.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stockenberg, Carl-Erik IFK Kristianstad players 1925 births Swedish male handball players 1985 deaths