Tommy Holmgren (born 9 January 1959) is a Swedish former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

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 ...

. Holmgren played his whole career for

IFK Göteborg Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll), commonly known as IFK Göteborg, IFK (especially locally) or simply Göteborg, is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, it is the ...

and won four

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 ...

titles, three Swedish cups and two

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s with them. He also played several matches for Sweden's football team. In a

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qualifier against

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in 1984, Holmgren got kicked in the head by an opponent. He was out for a long time and when he came back he was not as good as he had been previously, before the incident many European clubs wanted to sign Holmgren but after it, nearly all of them stopped trying to sign him and he instead played on for Göteborg. He is the younger brother of

Tord Holmgren Tord Holmgren (born 9 November 1957) is a Swedish former footballer who played as a midfielder. Holmgren won the UEFA Cup twice, in 1982 and 1987. He spent most of his career playing alongside his younger brother Tommy Holmgren for IFK Götebor ...

Honours

Individual * Årets Ärkeängel: 1986

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Holmgren, Tommy 1959 births Living people Men's association football midfielders Swedish men's footballers Sweden men's international footballers IFK Göteborg players Allsvenskan players UEFA Europa League winning players