Eva Malin Sofia Levenstad (born 13 September 1988) is a

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and former defender. She previously played for FC Rosengård (formerly known as LdB FC Malmö) of 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 ...

and spent a short period on

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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 ...

in 2014. She stopped playing in 2014, but returned to Rosengård in a coaching capacity in 2016. In 2017, she was the

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of Rosengård – the youngest head coach in

. She resumed her playing career with the club in 2019. In 2021 she stopped playing again to take a position as an assistant coach at

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. Levenstad currently works as an agent for the global football agency CMG, representing players and coaches within women's football.

Club career

In November 2013, Champions Malmö sent Levenstad on

to AIK for the first half of the 2014 season. Levenstad retired from playing in 2014, but was named FC Rosengård's assistant coach in November 2016. In the club's previous guise as LdB FC Malmö, Levenstad had been team captain and won three league titles. In September 2017, with the termination of FC Rosengård's head coach Jack Majgaard Jensen's contract, it was announced that Levenstad was to continue as Rosengård's head coach for the remainder of the 2017 season. In February 2019, she came out of retirement to resume her playing career. In December 2020 she stopped playing again to take a position as an assistant coach at

International career

She debuted for the Swedish national team in February 2008, a 2–0 win over

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. Levenstad was included in the Sweden squad for the

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Malin Levenstad
at CMG 1988 births Living people Swedish women's footballers Sweden women's international footballers Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Sweden FC Rosengård players Damallsvenskan players AIK Fotboll (women) players Swedish lesbian sportswomen Swedish LGBT footballers People from Vellinge Municipality Women's association football defenders Footballers from Skåne County {{Sweden-footy-defender-stub