Jan Jönsson (born 24 May 1960) is a Swedish football manager and former player.

Career

Playing career

He spent most of his playing career with

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Coaching career

Between 1993 and 1994 he was the

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assistant coach with

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as manager. After retiring, he was appointed manager for

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, which he took to

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football le ...

, the Swedish top flight. In 2005, he took over Norwegian club Stabæk and led them to promotion in his first season. He won the league with Stabæk in 2008. On 19 November 2014 it was announced that Jan was moving home to Halmstad and had signed a 3-year contract as head coach of HBK. His first season in charge ended with relegation from Allsvenskan. The following season Halmstad finished third in

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and faced

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in a two-legged play-off, which Halmstad won 3–2 on aggregate. In June 2019, he returned to Stabæk for his second spell as head coach at the club. A main reason was his daughter Zara signing for Stabæk's women's team. On 25 October 2019, Stabæk announced that their contract with Jönsson had been extended till the end of the 2022 season. On 4 July 2021, Jönsson's contract with Stabæk was terminated by mutual consent.

Club statistics

Managerial honours

Club

;Sanfrecce Hiroshima *

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: 1st Stage Champions 1994 ;Landskrona BoIS *

: Runners-up

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

;Stabæk Fotball *

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2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ...

1. divisjon The Norwegian First Division, also called 1. divisjon and OBOS-ligaen (named sponsor is property developer OBOS), is the second-highest level of the Norwegian football league system. Each year, the top finishing teams in the 1. divisjon are p ...

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris (dwarf planet), Er ...

;Halmstads BK *

Allsvenskan play-offs The Allsvenskan play-offs was a Swedish football cup held to decide the Swedish football champions between 1982 and 1990. The cup was created to increase the average attendance for Allsvenskan since public interest had dropped remarkably in the ...

: Winner 2016

Individual

* Norwegian Football Manager of the Month: July 2006

References

External links

* * 1960 births Living people Swedish football managers Swedish footballers Swedish expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Japan Halmstads BK players Allsvenskan players J1 League players Japan Football League (1992–1998) players Sanfrecce Hiroshima players Vissel Kobe players Landskrona BoIS managers Ljungskile SK managers Halmstads BK managers Swedish expatriate football managers Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Norway Expatriate football managers in Norway Expatriate football managers in Japan Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Japan Stabæk Fotball managers Rosenborg BK managers Aalesunds FK managers Sanfrecce Hiroshima managers Shimizu S-Pulse managers Eliteserien managers J1 League managers Association football midfielders {{Sweden-footy-midfielder-stub