Joakim Nilsson (born 16 May 1985) is a retired
Swedish
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footballer who played as a
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Nilsson played for
Malmö FF
Malmö Fotbollförening, commonly known as Malmö FF, Malmö, or MFF, is a professional football club and the most successful football club in Sweden in terms of trophies won. Formed in 1910 and affiliated with the Scania Football Association, ...
from 1997 until 2009 when he signed for Trelleborg. 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 for Malmö against
Landskrona BoIS
Landskrona Boll och Idrottsällskap ( en, Landskrona Ball and Sports Society, locally referred to as BoIS) is a Swedish professional football club located in Landskrona, Scania, which currently plays in Superettan, the second league tier of fo ...
on 21 April 2003. He retired after playing the 2015 season for Trelleborg.
External links
Trelleborgs FF Profile
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1985 births
Swedish men's footballers
Allsvenskan players
Malmö FF players
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Place of birth missing (living people)
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