Lukas Eric Oliver Nilsson (born 16 November 1996) is a Swedish

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player for

Aalborg Håndbold Aalborg Handball () is a professional handball club from Aalborg, Denmark that competes in the Danish Handball League. Aalborg Håndbold play their home games in the Gigantium arena in Aalborg – known as Jutlander Bank Arena for sponsorship rea ...

and the Swedish national team.

Club career

Nilsson started his career at

Ystads IF Ystads IF is a professional handball club from Ystad, Sweden. They play in Handbollsligan. They won the Swedish Championship in 1976, 1992, 2022 and 2025. History 1908-1960 Ystads IF was founded in 1908 and took up handball on the programme ...

THW Kiel

On 20 January 2016

THW Kiel THW Kiel is a professional handball club from Kiel, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and are the record champion with 23 titles. 2007 and 2012 were the most successful years in the club's history, as THW completed t ...

announced that Lukas Nilsson would be joining the club on a three-year deal starting on 1 July 2016. On 16 March 2018, his contract was extended until 2021. Here he won the

DHB-Pokal The DHB-Pokal (English: German Handball Federation Cup) is an elimination handball tournament held annually in Germany. It is the second most important handball national title in the country after the Handball-Bundesliga championship. DHB-Pokal ...

in 2017 and 2019, the

EHF Cup The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previo ...

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 ...

and the German Championship in 2020.

Rhein-Neckar Löwen

In 2020 he joined league rivals

Rhein-Neckar Löwen Rhein-Neckar Löwen is a professional handball club founded in 2002, based in Mannheim, Germany. The club competes in the German Handball-Bundesliga and continentally in EHF European League. Rhein-Neckar Löwen play their home games in SAP A ...

Aalborg Håndbold

After his contract with 'die löwen' ran out in 2023, he joined Danish side

. In March 2024 he extended his contract with Aalborg until 2027. The same season he won the Danish Championship with the club. In 2025 he won the

Danish Cup The Danish Cup (; often referred to as Pokalen) is the official "single-elimination tournament, knockout" cup competition in Danish football, run by the Danish Football Association. The cup has been contested annually since 1955. The winner will ...

. Later the same season he won the Danish championship.

National team

Nilsson played 33 for the Swedish youth teams. He competed at the 2016 European Championship, where Sweden finished 8th. Later the same year he represented Sweden at the

2016 Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

. The year after he played at the 2017 World Championship. In 2018 he won silver medals at the 2018 European Championship, losing to Spain in the final.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nilsson, Lukas 1996 births Living people Swedish male handball players Ystads IF players THW Kiel players Rhein-Neckar Löwen players Swedish expatriate handball players in Germany Handball-Bundesliga players Sportspeople from Ystad Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Sweden Aalborg Håndbold players Swedish expatriate handball players in Denmark Handball players from Skåne County 21st-century Swedish sportsmen