Rolf Reine Almqvist (born 12 April 1949) is a Swedish former professional

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player and coach who played as striker.

Club career

Almqvist played for

IFK Göteborg Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll), commonly known as IFK Göteborg, IFK (especially locally) or Blåvitt, is a Swedish professional Football team, football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, it ...

Åtvidabergs FF Åtvidabergs Fotbollförening, also known simply as Åtvidabergs FF, Åtvidaberg, Åtvid or (especially locally) ÅFF, is a Swedish professional association football, football club based in Åtvidaberg. The club is affiliated with Östergötlands ...

IFK Sundsvall IFK Sundsvall is a Swedish football club located in Sundsvall. The club was formed on 22 February 1895. Background Since their foundation IFK Sundsvall has participated mainly in the upper and middle divisions of the Swedish football league sys ...

, In 1980, he joined the Seattle Sounders of the

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, playing five games during the outdoor season and another seventeen during the 1980–81 NASL indoor season. He then returned to Sweden and played for

BK Häcken Bollklubben Häcken, more commonly known as BK Häcken or simply Häcken (), is a Swedish professional association football, football club based in Gothenburg (Hisingen). It currently plays in Allsvenskan, the top tier of Swedish football. Forme ...

Ope IF Ope IF is a Swedish football club located in Ope near Östersund in Jämtland. Background Ope Idrottsförening is a sports club near Östersund that was founded on 30 January 1922. Football is the main activity today but in the past the club ha ...

and Djerv 1919. He was the

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top scorer in 1969 and 1977.

International career

Almqvist won four

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and scored one goal between 1970 and 1979 for the Sweden national team. He also represented the Sweden U19 and U21 teams.

Managerial career

Almqvist coached IF Olsfors, Kullens BK,

, Djerv 1919,

Fredrikstad FK Fredrikstad Fotballklubb (also known as Fredrikstad or FFK) is a Norwegian professional association football, football club from the town of Fredrikstad. With nine league championships and twelve Norwegian Football Cup, Norwegian Cup wins, FFK ...

Helsingborgs IF Helsingborgs Idrottsförening, commonly referred to as Helsingborgs IF, Helsingborg or (especially locally) HIF (), is a Swedish professional football club located in Helsingborg. They play in the Swedish second tier, Superettan, following releg ...

Landskrona BoIS Landskrona Boll och Idrottsällskap (, locally referred to as BoIS) is a Swedish professional football club located in Landskrona, Scania, which currently plays in Superettan, the second league tier of football in Sweden. The club was formed ...

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FK Tønsberg FK Tønsberg was a football club from the city of Tønsberg in Tønsberg Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway, founded on 10 October 2001 as a cooperation project between 20 local clubs. The new team replaced Eik-Tønsberg in the Norwegian ...

and

Västra Frölunda IF Västra Frölunda Idrottsförening () is a Swedish football club based in Gothenburg. Founded on 2 January 1930, the club has spent a total of ten seasons in Allsvenskan, the top tier of Swedish football. As of the 2025 season, Västra Frölund ...

Career statistics

International

: ''Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Almqvist goal''.

Honours

IFK Göteborg *

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Åtvidabergs FF * Allsvenskan:

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Individual * Allsvenskan top scorer:

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(shared with

Mats Aronsson Mats Olof Aronsson (born 16 Augusti 1951) is a Swedish former footballer who played as a forward for the Swedish clubs Landskrona BoIS and Djurgårdens IF. He became the top scorer in Allsvenskan 1977 together with Reine Almqvist. Between 2007 ...

) * Årets ärkeängel: 1978

References

External links

Seattle Sounders stats
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Almqvist, Reine 1949 births Living people Swedish men's footballers Footballers from Gothenburg Men's association football forwards Sweden men's international footballers Allsvenskan players IFK Göteborg players Åtvidabergs FF players IFK Sundsvall players Seattle Sounders (1974–1983) players BK Häcken players SK Djerv 1919 players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) indoor players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players Swedish football managers BK Häcken managers Fredrikstad FK managers Helsingborgs IF managers IFK Göteborg managers Landskrona BoIS managers Bryne FK managers Halmstads BK non-playing staff Swedish expatriate men's footballers Swedish expatriate football managers Swedish expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Norway Expatriate men's footballers in Norway Expatriate football managers in Norway 20th-century Swedish sportsmen Ope IF players Eliteserien managers