Anton Lars Tinnerholm (born 26 February 1991) is a Swedish former professional

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who played as a defender. Starting off his career with

Åtvidabergs FF Åtvidabergs Fotbollförening, also known simply as Åtvidabergs FF, Åtvidaberg, Åtvid or (especially locally) ÅFF, is a Swedish professional association football, football club based in Åtvidaberg. The club is affiliated with Östergötlands ...

in 2008, he went on to represent

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 ...

and

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before retiring at Malmö FF in 2025. A full international between 2015 and 2018, he won nine

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for the Sweden national team.

Career

Åtvidabergs FF

In his early years Tinnerholm played for local

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clubs Brokinds IF and IK Östria Lambohov before moving to play professionally for

, one of the larger clubs in the county. Tinnerholm moved to Åtvidaberg in 2008 but didn't make his first league appearance for the club until the year after. After making twelve appearances for Åtvidaberg in Sweden's second tier

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, in

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, he played a much smaller role and played only two matches for the club after they had been promoted to the

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. Back in Superettan again for the 2011 season Tinnerholm played regularly and appeared in 28 of 30 matches for the club as they won the league, and thus also promotion back to

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. Tinnerholm continued to play regularly for the club as he made 25 appearances in

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and 29 appearances in

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

as the club enjoyed mid table results.

Malmö FF

Tinnerholm signed for reigning Swedish champions

on 11 July 2014. The transfer was completed on 15 July 2014 when the Swedish transfer window opened. Tinnerholm wore the number 3 jersey, previously worn by

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who left the club after playing at the

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. In the 2014 season Tinnerholm played regularly for the club, becoming

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champions and qualifying for the group stage of the

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. He scored his first league goal for Malmö FF against his former club Åtvidaberg on 1 November 2014 in a 2–1 loss.

New York City

On 13 December 2017, Tinnerholm signed with

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side

on a free transfer. He scored his first goal for the club on 11 March 2018 against

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and his second goal on 31 March 2018 against the

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. He left New York at the end of the 2022 season.

Return to Malmö and retirement

On 14 November 2022, it was officially announced that Tinnerholm would return to Malmö FF on a free transfer, signing a four-year contract with the club in the process and being registered since January 2023. He announced his immediate retire from professional football on 2 May 2025 after having suffered from a persistent groin injury throughout his second spell at Malmö FF, limiting his total Allsvenskan appearances to only seven games between 2023 and 2025.

Personal life

In February 2019, Tinnerholm earned a U.S. green card which qualifies him as a domestic player for MLS roster purposes.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

;Åtvidabergs FF *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

;Malmö FF *

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

Svenska Supercupen Svenska Supercupen, ''Swedish Super Cup'', was a one-off fixture in Swedish football played between the Allsvenskan champions and the winners of Svenska Cupen. The fixture was played in November, after the Allsvenskan season. In the event of a ...

New York City FC *

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Individual *

defender of the year:

References

External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tinnerholm, Anton 1991 births Living people Allsvenskan players Men's association football defenders Åtvidabergs FF players Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Major League Soccer players Malmö FF players New York City FC players Sportspeople from Linköping Superettan players Sweden men's international footballers Swedish expatriate men's footballers Swedish men's footballers Footballers from Östergötland County 21st-century Swedish sportsmen