Verner Edmund Eklöf (8 March 1897 – 2 December 1955) was a Finnish sportsman active in the 1920s.

Career

Association football

Eklöf played

association football 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 ...

at international level, scoring 17 goals in 32 appearances between 1919 and 1927. Eklöf played club football for

HIFK HIFK, the Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna, Helsingfors (IFK, Helsingfors) rf (officially abbreviated IFK Helsingfors, colloquially often Helsingfors IFK or Helsingin IFK) is a multi-sport association based in Helsinki, Finland. Formed in 1897 on ...

and HJK. His move from HIFK to HJK in 1920 is considered the first major transfer in Finnish football history.

Olympics

Eklöf competed in the

Nordic combined Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and ski jumping. The Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics has been held since the first 1924 Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics in ...

event at the

1924 Winter Olympics The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Chamonix 1924 (), were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Originally held in association with the 1924 Summer ...

, finishing ninth overall.

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* 1897 births 1955 deaths Finnish men's footballers Finland men's international footballers Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Finland Finnish male Nordic combined skiers Nordic combined skiers at the 1924 Winter Olympics HIFK Fotboll players Men's association football forwards Footballers from Helsinki 20th-century Finnish people Finnish Football Hall of Fame inductees {{Finland-footy-bio-stub