Axel Kjäll (born 1 June 1981) is a Swedish football manager and retired
football defender
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.
Ahead of the 2011 season he was named manager of
BK Forward
Bollklubben Forward, commonly known as BK Forward, is a football team from Örebro, Sweden. They play in Div 2 Norra Götaland. The club plays in a small multipurpose stadium called Trängens IP. The base of the club is in the western end of dow ...
. He joined the coaching team of the city's larger team
Örebro SK
Örebro Sportklubb, more commonly known as Örebro SK, Örebro or (especially locally) ÖSK, is a Swedish professional football club based in Örebro. The club are affiliated to Örebro Läns Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Behrn ...
ahead of the 2013 season.
Having both played for and later managed Örebro SK for several seasons, he became director of sports in 2021.
In 2022, the club sacked manager
Joel Cedergren after a single
league
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game, and Kjäll was brought back as manager. However, he did not last throughout the entire season either. He returned to an administrative position, but in December 2022 he was hired by the
Swedish Football Association
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as head coach of the new Swedish U15 team.
References
1981 births
Living people
Swedish men's footballers
Örebro SK players
Trelleborgs FF players
BK Forward players
Men's association football defenders
Allsvenskan players
Swedish football managers
Örebro SK managers
Allsvenskan managers
Superettan managers
21st-century Swedish sportsmen
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