Erik Wahlstedt
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ulf Erik Wahlstedt | ||
Date of birth | 16 April 1976 | ||
Place of birth | Gothenburg, Sweden | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender, midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
1982–1992 | BK Astrio | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1993 | BK Astrio | 15 | (4) |
1994–1996 | IFK Göteborg | 33 | (5) |
1997–2001 | Helsingborgs IF | 89 | (11) |
2001–2004 | Esbjerg fB | 79 | (1) |
2004–2012 | Helsingborgs IF | 166 | (4) |
Total | 382 | (25) | |
International career | |||
1991–1992 | Sweden U17 | 13 | (8) |
1993–1994 | Sweden U19 | 14 | (6) |
1995–1998 | Sweden U21 | 13 | (4) |
1998–2004 | Sweden | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 November 2009 |
Ulf Erik Wahlstedt (born 16 April 1976) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a defender and midfielder. He is best remembered for his time with Helsingborgs IF with which he won two Allsvenskan titles and four Svenska Cupen titles, but also represented BK Astrio, IFK Göteborg, and Esbjerg fB during a career that spanned between 1993 and 2012. He won two caps for the Sweden national team between 1998 and 2004 and represented his country at UEFA Euro 2004.
Club career
[edit]Beginning his career with BK Astrio, Wahlstedt signed for the Allsvenskan club IFK Göteborg in 1994 and helped the team win the 1994, 1995, and 1996 Allsvenskan titles.[1] He also represented IFK Göteborg in the UEFA Champions League.[1][2] Nonetheless, he was dissatisfied with his amount of playing time in IFK, and was wanted by Norwegian clubs such as Skeid and possibly Viking.[3] He ended up signing for Helsingborgs IF in 1997 and helped the club win the 1999 Allsvenskan and a Svenska Cupen title before leaving for Esbjerg fB in Denmark.[1] He returned to Helsingborg in 2004 and won another Allsvenskan title and three other Svenska Cupen titles before retiring in 2012.[1]
International career
[edit]Wahlstedt represented the Sweden U17, U19, and U21 teams a total of 40 times before making his full international debut for Sweden on 24 January 1998 in a friendly game against the United States, playing for 76 minutes in a 1–0 loss before being replaced by Mats Lilienberg.[4] Six years later, on 28 April 2004, he won his second and last international cap in a friendly 2–2 draw with Portugal.[5] He was named in the Sweden men's national football team for UEFA Euro 2004 in Portugal, but did not play.[6][7]
Career statistics
[edit]International
[edit]National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Sweden | 1998 | 1 | 0 |
1999 | 0 | 0 | |
2000 | 0 | 0 | |
2001 | 0 | 0 | |
2002 | 0 | 0 | |
2003 | 0 | 0 | |
2004 | 1 | 0 | |
Total | 2 | 0 |
Honours
[edit]IFK Göteborg[8]
- Allsvenskan: 1994, 1995, 1996
Helsingborgs IF[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "En lång karriär har nått sitt slut". HD (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ Redaktionen (11 October 2012). "Erik Wahlstedt lägger av". Allt Om HIF (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ Rikter-Svendsen, Anders (4 December 1996). "Fra 'Blåvitt' til mørkeblått". Rogalands Avis (in Norwegian). p. 17.
- ^ "USA - Sverige - Matchfakta - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "Portugal - Sverige - Matchfakta - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "Wahlstedt med i EM-truppen". SvD. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- ^ a b "Erik Wahlstedt, spelarfakta". Svensk Fotboll.
- ^ "Erik Wahlstedt - ifkdb.se". ifkdb.se. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
External links
[edit]- Erik Wahlstedt at the Swedish Football Association (in Swedish)
- Erik Wahlstedt club team profile at SvFF (in Swedish) (archived)
- Erik Wahlstedt national team profile at SvFF (in Swedish) (archived)
- Erik Wahlstedt at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1976 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
- Allsvenskan players
- Danish Superliga players
- IFK Göteborg players
- Esbjerg fB players
- Helsingborgs IF players
- UEFA Euro 2004 players
- Swedish expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark
- Men's association football defenders
- Footballers from Gothenburg
- Swedish football defender stubs