Jesper Kewe Karlström (born 21 June 1995) is a Swedish professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

Lech Poznań Kolejowy Klub Sportowy Lech Poznań S.A., commonly referred to as KKS Lech Poznań or simply Lech Poznań (), is a Polish professional football club based in Poznań and currently competing in the Ekstraklasa, the nation's highest division. T ...

and the Sweden national team.

Club career

Early career

Karlström started out his career playing for

Hammarby IF Hammarby Idrottsförening ("Hammarby Sports Club"), commonly known as Hammarby IF or simply Hammarby ( or, especially locally, ), is a Swedish sports club located in Stockholm, with a number of member organizations active in a variety of differ ...

at the age of six. When he turned nine the coach of his team moved to

IF Brommapojkarna Idrottsföreningen Brommapojkarna, more commonly known as Brommapojkarna (meaning ''the Bromma boys'') or simply BP, is a Swedish football club located in the borough of Bromma, in the western parts of Stockholm municipality. Brommapojkarna is ...

and brought his entire youth team along with him to the new club, including Karlström.

IF Brommapojkarna

Shortly after his eighteenth birthday in 2013, Karlström made his

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 ...

debut for Brommapojkarna away against

Kalmar FF Kalmar Fotbollförening, more commonly known as Kalmar FF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Kalmar. The club is affiliated to Smålands Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Guldfågeln Arena. Formed on 15 June 1910, the clu ...

. At the start of the next year he scored for the first time when his game-winning goal in the last game of the 2013–14 Svenska Cupen group stage qualified the club for the knockout stage of the tournament. A few months later he also scored his first league goal in the 3–0 home win against

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 the ...

Djurgårdens IF

Brommapojkarna were relegated at the end of the

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season, but Karlström had performed well enough to be signed by the larger Stockholm club

Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is nam ...

on a four-year deal. Ahead of 2017 Karlström had his shirt number changed from 22 to 6. On 10 May 2018, he played as Djurgarden beat

Malmö FF Malmö Fotbollförening, commonly known as Malmö FF, Malmö, or MFF, is a professional football club and the most successful football club in Sweden in terms of trophies won. Formed in 1910 and affiliated with the Scania Football Associatio ...

3–0 in the Swedish Cup Final. In 2019 Karlström crowned himself as a Swedish champion as part of the

team that won the Swedish league for a twelfth time. Jesper contributed with the 2–1 goal in the remarkable second-half comeback to win the title.

Lech Poznań

On 2 December 2020,

announced Karlström had signed from

on a contract until June 2024.

International career

Karlström has represented Sweden at the U17, U19 and U21 levels. In November 2014 he made his debut for the

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against

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. He made his full international debut for the Sweden national team on 11 January 2018 in a friendly 1–0 win against

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, playing for 66 minutes before being replaced by Kristoffer Olsson.

Career statistics

International

Honours

Djurgårdens IF *

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: 2017–18 Lech Poznań *

: 2021–22

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Karlstrom, Jesper Living people 1995 births Footballers from Stockholm Swedish footballers Men's association football midfielders IF Brommapojkarna players Djurgårdens IF Fotboll players Lech Poznań players Allsvenskan players Ekstraklasa players Sweden men's under-21 international footballers Sweden men's youth international footballers Swedish expatriate footballers Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate footballers in Poland