Jan Hugo Jesslén (born 19 February 2004) is a

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association footballer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

who currently plays for St Joseph's in the

Gibraltar Football League The Gibraltar Football League is the only senior tier of association football in Gibraltar, founded in 2019 as the Gibraltar National League after a merger of the Gibraltar Premier Division, which served as the top division of football on the R ...

Career

In 2023, Jesslén signed for Europa Point F.C. in the

having played through his youth with

IFK Lidingö Fotboll IFK Lidingö FK is a Sweden, Swedish Association football, football club located in Lidingö. Background IFK Lidingö is a Sweden, Swedish sports club that was founded in 1932 and is based on the island of Lidingö outside Stockholm. Although the ...

In his first season at the club, he would go on to win the Golden Boot for the club with 16 goals scored from 24 appearances, missing out on the league golden boot by one goal. At the end of the season, he returned to Sweden to join Ettan Norra side

Täby FK Täby FK is a Swedish football club based in Täby, Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic count ...

. He was unable to prevent their relegation with 2 goals in 13 games, and signed for St Joseph's on 31 January 2025. He scored twice in 4 league appearances in the tail end of the season as the Saints missed out on the title due to a worse head-to-head record against rivals Lincoln Red Imps. In July, he made his European debut with St Joseph's in the

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. In his second appearance, he scored an extra-time winner to secure progress against Northern Irish side

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.St Joseph's beat Cliftonville to set up Rovers tie
BBC Sport. 17 July 2025. Retrieved 19 July 2025.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jesslén, Hugo 2004 births Living people Swedish men's footballers Europa Point F.C. players St Joseph's F.C. players Men's association football wingers Swedish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Gibraltar Swedish expatriates in Gibraltar 21st-century Swedish sportsmen Täby FK players