Stefan Bengt Pettersson (born 22 March 1963) is a Swedish former professional

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who played as a striker. He won the

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with both

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and

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, and won 31

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for the Sweden national team. He represented his country at the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

Club career

Pettersson was born and raised in

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, and started his football career with the local club

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. He began his Allsvenskan career with

IFK Norrköping Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, more commonly known as IFK Norrköping or simply Norrköping, is a Swedish professional football club based in Norrköping. The club is affiliated to Östergötlands Fotbollförbund and play thei ...

, before leaving for

during the 1984 season. The following four years he helped Göteborg win one league title, become runners-up once, and to one

victory in 1987, in which he scored in the final itself against

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. In 1988, he was bought by Dutch club

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. In the six seasons he spent with Ajax he won the league twice and the Dutch Cup once. In 1992, he won the

again, also scoring in the final again, this time a penalty. He returned to IFK Göteborg in 1994 and won three more league titles. The latter part of his career he had recurring knee problems, which forced him to retire in 1999.

International career

Pettersson represented the Sweden U17, U19, and U21 teams a total of 31 times between 1979 and 1985. He made his full international debut for Sweden on 19 November 1983 in a friendly 4–0 win against

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, playing for 65 minutes before being replaced by

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. He scored his first international goal for Sweden on 31 August 1988 in a friendly 1–2 loss against

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. He was selected for Sweden's squad for the 1990 FIFA World Cup and played in all three games as Sweden was eliminated after the group stage following three straight 1–2 losses against

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, and Costa Rica. Pettersson scored in a friendly against

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ahead of

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, but was not selected for the tournament. He scored his first competitive goal for Sweden in a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Bulgaria, but was overlooked for the

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. He won a total of 31

for Sweden, scoring four goals.

Personal life

Pettersson is married to a sister of

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Career statistics

International

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

Honours

IFK Göteborg *

: 1986–87 * Allsvenskan:

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1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

, 1996 Ajax * UEFA Cup: 1991–92 *

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: 1989–90, 1993–94 * KNVB Cup:

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Individual * Pettersson was also given the "Folkets lirare" ("People's Choice Player") award at Fotbollsgalan in 1997.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pettersson, Stefan 1963 births Living people Swedish footballers IFK Norrköping players IFK Göteborg players AFC Ajax players Allsvenskan players Eredivisie players Sweden international footballers 1990 FIFA World Cup players Sweden under-21 international footballers Sweden youth international footballers Swedish expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands Swedish expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Sportspeople from Västerås Association football forwards UEFA Cup winning players