 Berglund with IF Elfsborg in 2008 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jan Fredrik Berglund | ||
| Date of birth | (1979-03-21)21 March 1979 (age 46) | ||
| Place of birth | Borås, Sweden | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Winger,centre forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1986–1992 | Byttorps IF | ||
| 1993–1995 | IF Elfsborg | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995–2001 | IF Elfsborg | 118 | (40) |
| 2001–2004 | Roda JC | 42 | (5) |
| 2003 | → IF Elfsborg (loan) | 15 | (4) |
| 2004–2006 | Esbjerg fB | 99 | (57) |
| 2006–2007 | F.C. Copenhagen | 29 | (7) |
| 2007–2010 | IF Elfsborg | 35 | (11) |
| 2009 | →Stabæk (loan) | 26 | (6) |
| Total | 364 | (130) | |
| International career | |||
| 1994–1995 | Sweden U17 | 26 | (8) |
| 1996–1997 | Sweden U19 | 13 | (6) |
| 1998–2001 | Sweden U21 | 27 | (6) |
| 2001–2006 | Sweden | 12 | (2) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Jan Fredrik Berglund (born 21 March 1979) is a Swedish former professionalfootballer who played as aforward. He started off his career withIF Elfsborg in 1995 and became theAllsvenskan top scorer during the2000 season. He then went on to representRoda JC,Esbjerg fB,FC Copenhagen, andStabæk before retiring at IF Elfsborg in early 2011. A full international between 2001 and 2006, he won 12caps and scored two goals for theSweden national team.
Berglund started his professional career with IF Elfsborg and was a key player together withAnders Svensson andTobias Linderoth, the three of them were nicknamed "The Headband Gang".[1] In the2000 season he wastop goalscorer of theAllsvenskan and he attracted interest from foreign based clubs and eventually signed for Dutch sideRoda JC in a€750.000 deal.[1]
Berglund had a hard time in the Netherlands and after a year and a half, he was sent on loan back to Sweden and IF Elfsborg.[1] He returned to the Netherlands for the remaining of the 2003–04 season and played a few games.[1]
In the spring of 2004 Berglund moved toDanish Superliga sideEsbjerg fB who paid a record transfer fee of €150,000 for him.[2] He made his debut for Esbjerg on 14 March 2004 in a game againstBrøndby IF away[3] scoring two goals and making three assists in a 6–1 win.[3]
Berglund played two and a half years in Esbjerg before he was transferred to Danish championsF.C. Copenhagen in the summer of 2006.[4] He played only one season with the club, playing 52 games (Danish Superliga,Danish Cup,Royal League andUEFA Champions League) and scoring 18 goals.[5] He once again played alongside former teammateTobias Linderoth.[1]
On 26 November 2006, he beatErik Bo Andersen's record of quickest person to score 50 goals in the Danish Superliga.[6] Andersen had used 97 matches to score the 50 goals, but Berglund could, with a goal againstRanders FC, score his goal no. 50 after 93 matches.[6]
In the spring of 2007,F.C. Copenhagen brought in Brazilian strikerAilton Almeida whose arrival pushed Berglund out of the starting line-up and when the club in the summer of 2007 also signed the Danish international forwardMorten Nordstrand, Berglund was suddenly fourth or fifth choice for one of the two slots in the F.C. Copenhagen attack. A few days after Nordstrand's arrival, Berglund moved back to Sweden and signed once again with IF Elfsborg.[7] The transfer fee was reported to be 4.9 millionDKK, €750,000.[7]
Berglund played his first game for Elfsborg 12 July 2007 when he came on as a substitute in a 2–0 victory at home againstAIK.[8]
On 31 March, ten minutes before midnight and the end of the Norwegian transfer window, 2008 championsStabæk announced that they had signed Fredrik on a season-long loan deal.[9]
On 10 January 2011, Berglund officially announced his retirement from football as a player. After being sidelined a long time with constant injuries, Berglund felt he no longer had the motivation to continue playing.[10]
Berglund was capped 12 times for theSweden national team and scored two goals.[11] He got his debut and scored his first international goal with the national side on 10 February 2001 againstThailand in the2001 King's Cup.[11] He won his 12th and ultimately final international cap for Sweden on 15 November 2006 in a friendly game against theIvory Coast.[11]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 2001 | 3 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2005 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2006 | 4 | 0 | |
| Total | 12 | 2 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 February 2001 | National Stadium,Bangkok, Thailand |  Thailand | 3–1 | 4–1 | 2001 King's Cup | [12] |
| 2 | 17 October 2004 | Easter Road Stadium,Edinburgh, Scotland |  Scotland | 4–0 | 4–1 | Friendly | [13] |
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