Jennifer Egelryd (born 25 July 1990) is a

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who currently plays in the

Damallsvenskan The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...

for

AIK AIK Fotboll (), more commonly known simply as AIK (), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (meaning ''the public'' or ''general sports club''), is a Swedish football club competing in Allsvenskan, the top flight of Swedish football. The ...

. She previously played for

Piteå IF Piteå Idrottsförening, commonly known as Piteå IF, is a Swedish football club located in Piteå that currently competes in Sweden's top-division women's league, Damallsvenskan. In 2018, they won the Swedish national Championship for the firs ...

and

Tyresö FF Tyresö Fotbollsförening is a Swedish football club in Tyresö, a municipality in Stockholm County. The club was founded in 1971 and is primarily known for its main women's team, which competed in the top-tier league Damallsvenskan in the 2010� ...

, from where she was loaned to

Åland United Åland United is a Finnish women's football club based in Lemland, Åland. They compete in the Kansallinen Liiga, the premier women's football league in Finland. In 2004 Åland's clubs Lemlands IF and IF Finströms Kamraterna decided to stren ...

of the

Naisten Liiga The Kansallinen Liiga ('National League') is the premier division of women's football in Finland. It was previously called the Jalkapallon naisten SM-sarja ('Women's Football Finnish Championship Series') during 1974 to 2006 and the Naisten Lii ...

and

IK Sirius IK Sirius is a Swedish bandy club located in Uppsala, currently playing in Elitserien. IK Sirius were formed in 1907 and play their home games at Studenternas Idrottsplats. History IK Sirius' first success was becoming Swedish runners-up in 1 ...

of the

Elitettan Elitettan ( en, The Elite First) is the second highest division of Swedish women's football. Contested by 14 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation In sports leagues, promotion and relegation is a process where teams are ...

Early life

Egelryd began playing football at the age of five where she played for Tyresö's youngest girls' team.

Playing career

Club

Egelryd made her debut for

at the age of 19 in a match against

Djurgården Djurgården ( or ) or, more officially, ''Kungliga Djurgården'' (), is an island in central Stockholm, Sweden. Djurgården is home to historical buildings and monuments, museums, galleries, the amusement park Gröna Lund, the open-air museum ...

in April 2010. She scored her first goal for the club in May during a match against

, in which Tyresö won 2-0. She finished the 2010 season having played in 19 matches, with 13 starts and 3 goals. After returning to Tyresö for the 2011 Damallsvenskan season, she made 6 starts in 13 appearances for a total of 546 minutes played. She scored two goals: one during a match against Jitex on 1 May in which Tyresö won 2-1 and another during a 3-0 win against Djurgården on 5 June. In 2012, Egelryd made one appearance Tyresö and signed on loan with Finnish club,

. She made four appearances for Åland and scored four goals. She returned for the remainder of the 2012 Damallsvenskan season to Tyresö where she made 29 appearances with two starts. Egelryd returned to Tyresö for the 2013 season and made six appearances with one start before being signed on loan to IK Sirius FK in the

. In November 2013 Egelryd agreed to sign for Tyresö's Damallsvenskan rivals

International

Egelryd represented Sweden at various youth levels including U-19, U-20 and U-23. In 2009, she helped Sweden win silver at the 2009 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship.

References

External links

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Tyresö FF player profile
* Swedish women's footballers 1990 births Living people Tyresö FF players Piteå IF (women) players AIK Fotboll (women) players Damallsvenskan players Kansallinen Liiga players Åland United players Expatriate women's footballers in Finland Swedish expatriate women's footballers Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Finland Women's association football forwards Elitettan players {{Sweden-women-footy-bio-stub