Hans Peter Joakim Nilsson (born 31 March 1966) is a Swedish former professional

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 ...

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 ...

. He played for

Landskrona BoIS Landskrona Boll och Idrottsällskap ( en, Landskrona Ball and Sports Society, locally referred to as BoIS) is a Sweden, Swedish professional Football club (association football), football club located in Landskrona, Scania, which currently pla ...

and

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 ...

in his native Sweden, and

Sporting de Gijón Real Sporting de Gijón, S.A.D. (), commonly known as Real Sporting, Sporting Gijón, or simply Sporting (although in an international context this can lead to confusion with Sporting Clube de Portugal) is a Spanish football club from Gijón, ...

in Spain during a career that spanned between 1985 and 1995. He appeared for the Swedish national team a total of 27 times, and participated in the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy as well as

UEFA Euro 1992 The 1992 UEFA European Football Championship was hosted by Sweden between 10 and 26 June 1992. It was the ninth UEFA European Championship, which is held every four years and supported by UEFA. Denmark won the 1992 championship, having qualifi ...

. He also represented the Sweden Olympic team at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

Career statistics

International

: ''Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Nilsson goal''.

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* * * 1966 births Living people Association football defenders Swedish footballers Sweden international footballers Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Spain Landskrona BoIS players Malmö FF players Sporting de Gijón players Allsvenskan players La Liga players 1990 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 1992 players Olympic footballers of Sweden Footballers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Expatriate footballers in Spain People from Landskrona Municipality Footballers from Skåne County {{Sweden-footy-defender-stub