| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Anneli Andelén | ||
| Date of birth | (1968-06-21)21 June 1968 (age 56) | ||
| Place of birth | Älvsered, Sweden | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1983–1996 | Öxabäcks IF | ||
| 1997–1998 | Suzuyo Shimizu Lovely Ladies | ||
| 1999–2000 | Landvetter | ||
| IF Böljan | |||
| International career‡ | |||
| 1985–1995 | Sweden[1] | 88 | (37) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 October 2007 | |||
Anneli Andelén (born 21 June 1968) is aSwedish former association footballforward who won 88caps for theSweden women's national football team, scoring 37 goals. She represented Sweden at theFIFA Women's World Cup in1991 and1995. Andelén also played professional club football in Japan withSuzuyo Shimizu Lovely Ladies.
Andelén joinedÖxabäcks IF as a 15-year-old in 1983 and won the league title in her first season. She wasDamallsvenskan top goalscorer on three consecutive occasions (1992, 1993 and 1994).[2] Andelén played in seven consecutiveSvenska Cupen finals with the club, who became known as Öxabäck/Marks IF in 1991.[3] In August 1994 she scored all six goals in Öxabäck/Marks IF's 6–1 destruction of Gideonsberg.[4]
In 1997, while playing forSuzuyo Shimizu Lovely Ladies, Andelén wasL. League top goalscorer with 19 goals and was named in the league all-star team.[5]
Andelén made her seniorSweden debut on 22 August 1985, a 5–0 win overNorway inSundsvall.[6] In 1991 Andelén's three goals helped Sweden to a third-place finish at the inauguralFIFA Women's World Cup and in 1992 she collected theDiamantbollen award for the best female footballer in the country. Her brace againstDenmark in the second leg of the quarter finals of theUEFA Women's Euro 1995 qualifying campaign was the difference in overcoming a 0–2 deficit to beat Denmark 3–2 onaggregate and qualify forUEFA Women's Euro 1995. In the final of that tournament in March 1995 atFritz-Walter-Stadion inKaiserslautern, Andelén's late goal was not enough to stopGermany from beating Sweden 3–2. She quit the national team after featuring at the1995 FIFA Women's World Cup, which Sweden hosted. There had been a dispute over the team's tactics at the tournament.[7]
Anneli Andelén competed in twoFIFA Women's World Cups:China 1991,andSweden 1995. In the 1991 edition, Andelén played every minute of the tournament and scored the opening goal in a 4–0 victory over Germany in the Third Place Match.[8]
Anneli Andelén appeared in three European Championship tournaments. Her side finished in second place at the1987 and1995 editions of the competition, and took home a third-place finish in1989.
During her playing career, Andelén was in a relationship with club teammateNathalie Geeris.[9] Andelén married Lisa in June 2008.[10] She became chief executive of the familysawmill business after her football career.[11]
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