Ann Jansson (footballer)

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Ann Jansson
Kosovare Asllani and Ann Jansson.jpg
Jansson (right) with Kosovare Asllani in 2014
Personal information
Date of birth (1957-05-06) 6 May 1957 (age 65)
Place of birth Stockholm, Sweden
Position(s) Forward / Defender
Youth career
Karlbergs BK
1970 Stockholms Godtemplare
1971 Älvsjö AIK
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1972–1984 Hammarby IF
International career‡
1973–1984 Sweden 37 (12)
Managerial career
1990 Hammarby IF
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:51, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12:51, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Ann Jansson (born 6 May 1957) is a Swedish former association footballer, who scored the Sweden women's national football team's first ever goal in 1974. In an 11-year national team career, she won 37 caps for Sweden, scoring 12 goals.

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Club career

Jansson scored 864 goals in 642 appearances for Hammarby IF between 1972 and 1984. With the club she played in six finals between 1974 and 1984, but lost them all. Hammarby won the national league title for the first time in 1985, the year after Jansson's retirement. In December 2017 she was inducted into the Swedish football Hall of Fame. [1] She served as Hammarby's coach during the first half of the 1990 Damallsvenskan season. [2]

International career

Jansson made her senior Sweden debut in a 0–0 draw with Finland in Mariehamn on 25 August 1973, the national team's first ever match. [3] [4] In Sweden's next match on 26 July 1974, also against Finland in Mariehamn, second-half substitute Jansson became the national team's first ever goal-scorer in a 1–0 win. In June 1975, Jansson scored twice to hand England their first ever defeat; 2–0 at Ullevi. As a free-scoring forward she scored four goals in her five appearances in 1975. [4]

With Sweden Jansson won the first UEFA championships for national women's teams in 1984. Returning from a year-long injury absence for the semi-final win over Italy, versatile Jansson was deployed as a full-back. Sweden beat England in the final, on a penalty shootout at Kenilworth Road, Luton, after a 1–1 aggregate draw. [5] Jansson successfully converted her kick in the shootout. [6]

Jansson retired from football in 1984. When Kosovare Asllani scored the national team's 1,000th goal about 40 years after Jansson's first, the occasion was marked at a joint presentation before a match against Northern Ireland in Växjö. [7]

Personal life

During her football career Jansson was a gym teacher. She later became a head teacher. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Fröberg, Owe (5 December 2017). "Fyra nya invalda i Hall of Fame" (in Swedish). Swedish Football Association . Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "1990" (in Swedish). Hammarby IF. Archived from the original on 28 October 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  3. ↑ Jansson, Ann (21 April 2010). "En historisk tåfjutt" (in Swedish). Hammarby IF DFF. Archived from the original on 13 August 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Spelarporträtt" (in Swedish). Svenskdamfotboll.se. Archived from the original on 19 April 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  5. ↑ Leighton, Tony (19 May 2009). "England's shoot-out jinx begins - England, 1984". The Guardian . Retrieved 12 October 2010.
  6. ↑ Andersson, Jan (27 May 2009). "25 år sedan enda EM-guldet" (in Swedish). Helsingborgs Dagblad. Archived from the original on 29 May 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  7. ↑ Angerbjörn, Isak (8 May 2014). "40-årsjubileum för Sveriges första målskytt" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  8. ↑ Ekblom Ystén, Henrik (29 January 2018). "Ann Jansson om att slå sig fram" (in Swedish). Offside.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
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