David Löfquist (born 6 August 1986) is a Swedish
footballer
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who plays for
Kristianstad FC. His nickname is "Löken" (English: "The Onion").
Career
Mjällby AIF
Löfquist started his professional career at
Mjällby AIF
Mjällby Allmänna Idrottsförening, also known simply as Mjällby AIF, Mjällby or (especially locally) MAIF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Hällevik in Sölvesborg Municipality. The club is affiliated to Blekinge Fo ...
where he played for five seasons. The three first seasons was in Sweden's second highest tier of football,
Superettan
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, while the last two seasons was in Sweden's highest league,
Allsvenskan
Allsvenskan (; ), also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan (, ) is a professional association football league in Sweden and the highest level of the Swedish football league system.
Founded in 1924, it operates on a system of promotion and relegatio ...
. Löfquist managed to play more than 130 league matches for Mjällby before he left the club in early 2012.
Parma
On 5 December 2011 it was announced that Löfquist had signed a two-and-a-half-year-long contract with Italian side
Parma
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with an option to further extend the contract with two years in the summer of 2014.
Loan to Gubbio
Before Löfquist had played for Parma he was loaned out to
Serie B
The Serie B (), officially known as Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had b ...
side
Gubbio
Gubbio () is an Italian town and ''comune'' in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria). It is located on the lowest slope of Mt. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennine Mountains, Apennines.
History Prehistory
The ol ...
on 31 January 2012 for the remainder of the
2011–12 season.
Loan to Malmö FF
On the last day of the
transfer window
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, 31 August 2012, Löfquist signed a loan deal with
Allsvenskan
Allsvenskan (; ), also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan (, ) is a professional association football league in Sweden and the highest level of the Swedish football league system.
Founded in 1924, it operates on a system of promotion and relegatio ...
club
Malmö FF
Malmö Fotbollförening (), commonly known simply as Malmö FF or MFF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö, Scania. They compete in the Allsvenskan, the top division of Swedish football, and play home matches at the Eleda S ...
for the rest of the
2012 season.
Löfquist only appeared in four league matches for Malmö FF during the loan spell.
Career statistics
Honours
Club
Mjällby AIF
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Superettan
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2009
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,
2019
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References
External links
Malmö FF profile
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archive
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1986 births
Living people
Swedish men's footballers
Sölvesborgs GoIF players
Mjällby AIF players
Parma Calcio 1913 players
AS Gubbio 1910 players
Malmö FF players
Odense Boldklub players
Qingdao Red Lions F.C. players
Kristianstad FC players
Allsvenskan players
Superettan players
Serie B players
Danish Superliga players
Swedish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark
Expatriate men's footballers in China
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in China
Men's association football forwards
Men's association football midfielders
21st-century Swedish sportsmen