Mats Olof Jingblad (born 9 August 1958) is a Swedish football coach and former

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who played as a striker.

Club career

Jingblad played for BK Astrio and

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. He made a total of 216 appearances for Halmstads BK.

International career

Jingblad represented the Sweden national team eleven times between 1982 and 1984, scoring eight goals. He also represented the Sweden U19, U21, and

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teams between 1976 and 1986.

Managerial career

Jingblad started his managing career at

, where we won the

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in 1995. In 1996 he joined

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and won

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title the same year. In 2007 he coached

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to promotion to the Swedish top division. In late 2013 he was announced as the new

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of Hammarby in the second tier in Sweden. He left the club in early 2017, with the club having achieved promotion to the Swedish top division in 2014. In the summer of 2018 he took over as coach for fifth tier BK Astrio, the club where he once started his career as a player.

Career statistics

International goals ''Sweden's score is listed first.''

References

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* * 1958 births Living people Swedish men's footballers Sweden men's international footballers Sweden men's under-21 international footballers Sweden men's youth international footballers Men's association football forwards Allsvenskan players Halmstads BK players Swedish football managers Halmstads BK managers IFK Göteborg managers Iraklis F.C. (Thessaloniki) managers Örebro SK managers Landskrona BoIS managers IFK Norrköping managers Expatriate football managers in Greece Hammarby Fotboll directors and chairmen Footballers from Halmstad 20th-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-footy-forward-stub