Torbjörn Persson (born 14 January 1960) is a former Swedish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

and coach.

Career

Persson played 574 matches for

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 ...

. He became Swedish champion two times and capped 8 times for the national team. Persson holds the record for most

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 ...

wins for Malmö FF having been at the club when they won Allsvenskan five times in a row between 1985 and 1989. However, as Allsvenskan had championship playoffs at the time and Mamö FF managed to win two of them Persson only won two Swedish championships although having won the league five times. After his player career he briefly started a coach career, now he is an IT specialist working at Alfa Laval Lund AB.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Persson, Torbjorn 1960 births Swedish men's footballers Sweden men's international footballers Footballers from Skåne County Malmö FF players Allsvenskan players Living people Högaborgs BK players Men's association football defenders 20th-century Swedish sportsmen