Patrik Nilsson (born 15 March 1982) is a

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bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The playin ...

player, currently with

Sandvikens AIK Sandvikens AIK (commonly known as SAIK) a sports club in Sandviken, Sweden. The bandy section plays its home games in the Göransson Arena in Sandviken. They play in a black outfit. History Sandvikens AIK was founded on 16 March 1901. Originall ...

in the Swedish

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Career

Nilsson started playing bandy at

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but left to play in the top division at Sandvikens AIK. He has played for the

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. All of his appearances have been while he was a Sandvikens AIK player. Nilsson was a member of the Sandvikens AIK squads that won the Swedish Championship in the 2001–02 and 2002–03 seasons and he was also a member of the

Bandy World Cup The Bandy World Cup is an international bandy competition played in Sweden at the beginning of the bandy season every year, in autumn. The participating teams qualify based on their results in the previous bandy season. The World Cup is not playe ...

winning squad in 2001–02 season. He was the top scorer in the 2006–07 and the 2007–08 top division seasons with 70 and 94 goals respectively. On 26 February 2008, after scoring five goals in a playoff game against Motala, Nilsson set a milestone by exceeding 100 goals in one season. After the great season with SAIK, he went on to play in the Russian League for Kazan. After a season with trouble in Russia he returned to Sweden but this time to

Hammarby IF Bandy Hammarby IF Bandyförening is a Sweden, Swedish bandy club from Södermalm, Stockholm, a section of the sports club Hammarby IF. Hammarby IF was founded under its present name in 1897 and has been playing bandy since 1905. The club currently ...

. Nilsson signed a one-year contract with the club with an option for a second. On 8 February 2022, he announced his retirement from bandy following the 2021–2022 season.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nilsson, Patrik 1982 births Living people Swedish bandy players Expatriate bandy players in Russia Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Russia Borlänge-Stora Tuna BK players Dynamo Kazan players Hammarby IF Bandy players Zorky Krasnogorsk players Sandvikens AIK players Bollnäs GIF players Sweden international bandy players Bandy World Championship–winning players