Kent Karlsson (born 25 November 1945) is a Swedish

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

coach and former player. He was capped 38 times for the

national team A national sports team (commonly known as a national team or a national side) is a team that represents a nation, rather than a particular club or region, in an international sport. The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exa ...

and played at the

1974 FIFA World Cup The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the 10th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the ...

. As a manager, he has managed Swedish, Danish and Norwegian clubs such as

IFK Norrköping Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, more commonly known as IFK Norrköping or simply Norrköping, is a Swedish professional association football, football club based in Norrköping. The club is affiliated to Östergötlands Fotbollför ...

, Bryne IL,

Lyngby BK Lyngby Boldklub () is a professional football club based in Lyngby, Denmark, founded in 1921. It is based at Lyngby Stadion. The club play in the Danish Superliga. From 1994 to 2001 the club was known as Lyngby FC. The club has won the Danish c ...

and

FC Copenhagen Football Club Copenhagen (, ), commonly known as F.C. København, F.C. Copenhagen, Copenhagen, or simply FCK, is a Danish professional football club based in Copenhagen. FCK was founded in 1992 as a superstructure on top of Kjøbenhavns Boldklu ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Karlsson, Kent 1945 births Living people People from Arboga Municipality Swedish men's footballers Sweden men's international footballers Åtvidabergs FF players 1974 FIFA World Cup players 1978 FIFA World Cup players Swedish football managers Bryne FK managers F.C. Copenhagen managers Assyriska FF managers IFK Norrköping managers Kongsvinger IL Toppfotball managers Örebro SK managers Åtvidabergs FF managers Expatriate football managers in Denmark Swedish expatriate football managers Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Norway Expatriate football managers in Norway Lyngby Boldklub managers IFK Eskilstuna players Men's association football defenders 20th-century Swedish sportsmen IK Sleipner managers Footballers from Västmanland County Eliteserien managers