Kim Hilding Bergstrand (born 18 April 1968) is a Swedish

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coach.

Career

Playing career

Bergstrand played for AIK,

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 ...

, Nacka FF and

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

. He became Swedish champion by winning

1992 Mästerskapsserien Allsvenskan 1992, part of the 1992 Swedish football season, was the 68th Allsvenskan season played. IFK Norrköping won the league ahead of runners-up Östers IF, and advanced to Mästerskapsserien 1992 along with the teams placed 3 to 6, while ...

with AIK.

Managerial career

Between 2008 and 2010, Kim Bergstrand was the manager of

. In 2012, Kim Bergstrand and

Thomas Lagerlöf Thomas Olof "Tolle" Lagerlöf (born 15 November 1971) is a Swedish football coach. A former player for Stockholm rivals AIK, he has been coach of the Allsvenskan team Djurgårdens IF since 2018 to 2024, leading them to the title in 2019. Hono ...

became managers of

IK Sirius Idrottsklubben Sirius, commonly known as IK Sirius or Sirius, is a Swedish Sport, sports club located in Uppsala. Today IK Sirius is active in bandy, floorball, and association football, football as an . History The sports club that became IK Sir ...

. Before the 2019 season, Kim Bergstrand and

became managers of

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. Djurgårdens IF is an s ...

. Bergstrand and Lagerlöf managed the team to a Swedish title their first season. In 2022, they took

Djurgården Djurgården ( or ) or, more officially, , is an island in central Stockholm, Sweden. Djurgården is home to historical buildings and monuments, museums, galleries, the amusement park Gröna Lund, the open-air museum Skansen, the small resident ...

to their first European group stage, the

2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League The 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League was the second season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA. The final was played at Fortuna Arena in Prague, Czech Republic. It was won ...

Honours

Player

AIK * Swedish Champion:

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Manager

Djurgårdens IF *

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 ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

References

Kim Bergstrand's history at AIK's official website
1968 births Living people People from Täby Municipality Swedish men's footballers Men's association football forwards AIK Fotboll players Hammarby Fotboll players Allsvenskan players Superettan players IF Brommapojkarna players Swedish football managers IF Brommapojkarna managers IK Sirius Fotboll managers Boo FK players Boo FK managers Footballers from Stockholm County 20th-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-footy-forward-stub