Ann Jansson (footballer)

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Ann Jansson

| image = Kosovare Asllani and Ann Jansson.jpg

| caption = Jansson (right) with Kosovare Asllani in 2014

| fullname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1957|5|6}}

| birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden

| height =

| position = Forward / Defender

| currentclub =

| clubnumber =

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Karlbergs BK

| youthyears2 = 1970

| youthclubs2 = Stockholms Godtemplare

| youthyears3 = 1971

| youthclubs3 = Älvsjö AIK

| years1 = 1972–1984

| clubs1 = Hammarby IF

| caps1 = 90

| goals1 = 72

| nationalyears1 = 1973–1984

| nationalteam1 = Sweden

| nationalcaps1 = 37

| nationalgoals1 = 12

| manageryears1 = 1990

| managerclubs1 = Hammarby IF

| pcupdate = 12:51, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

| ntupdate = 12:51, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

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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.

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.{{cite news |last1=Fröberg |first1=Owe |title=Fyra nya invalda i Hall of Fame |url=https://www.svenskfotboll.se/nyheter/svff/2018/4/hof/selektion-nr-15/ |access-date=27 October 2018 |publisher=Swedish Football Association |date=5 December 2017 |language=Swedish}} She served as Hammarby's coach during the first half of the 1990 Damallsvenskan season.{{cite web |title=1990 |url=http://www.hifhockeyhistoria.se/Hifhistoria/Historia/1990.html |publisher=Hammarby IF |access-date=27 October 2018 |language=Swedish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028033606/http://www.hifhockeyhistoria.se/Hifhistoria/Historia/1990.html |archive-date=28 October 2018 |url-status=dead }} She scored 72 goals in 90 matchs of Swedish's championship.

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.{{cite news |last1=Jansson |first1=Ann |title=En historisk tåfjutt |url=http://www.hammarbydamfotboll.se/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=232:en-historisk-tafjutt&catid=32:gaestkroenikor&Itemid=169 |access-date=27 October 2018 |publisher=Hammarby IF DFF |date=21 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100813132439/http://www.hammarbydamfotboll.se/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=232:en-historisk-tafjutt&catid=32:gaestkroenikor&Itemid=169 |archive-date=13 August 2010 |language=Swedish}}{{cite web |title=Spelarporträtt |url=http://svenskdamfotboll.se/index_spelarprofil.php?spelare=13 |publisher=Svenskdamfotboll.se |access-date=27 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160419120506/http://svenskdamfotboll.se/index_spelarprofil.php?spelare=13 |archive-date=19 April 2016 |language=Swedish}} 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.

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.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/may/19/seven-deadly-sins-football-penalty-women-england|title=England's shoot-out jinx begins - England, 1984|first=Tony |last=Leighton|work=The Guardian|date=2009-05-19|access-date=2010-10-12}} Jansson successfully converted her kick in the shootout.{{cite news|url=http://hd.se/sport/2009/05/27/25-aar-sedan-enda-em-guldet/ |title=25 år sedan enda EM-guldet |first=Jan |last=Andersson |publisher=Helsingborgs Dagblad |date=2009-05-27 |access-date=2012-05-20 |language=Swedish |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090529052125/http://hd.se/sport/2009/05/27/25-aar-sedan-enda-em-guldet/ |archive-date=2009-05-29 }}

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.{{cite news |last1=Angerbjörn |first1=Isak |title=40-årsjubileum för Sveriges första målskytt |url=https://www.svt.se/sport/artikel/40-arsjubileum-for-sveriges-forsta-malskytt |access-date=27 October 2018 |publisher=Sveriges Television |date=8 May 2014 |language=Swedish}}

Personal life

During her football career Jansson was a gym teacher. She later became a head teacher.{{cite news |last1=Ekblom Ystén |first1=Henrik |title=Ann Jansson om att slå sig fram |url=https://www.offside.org/samtal/ann-jansson-om-att-sla-sig-fram/ |access-date=27 October 2018 |publisher=Offside.org |date=29 January 2018 |language=Swedish}}

References

External links

[https://www2.svenskfotboll.se/landslag/landslagsdatabas/landslagsspelare/?fplid=658516&tab=stats Profile] at Swedish Football Association {{in lang|sv}}

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Category:Sweden women's international footballers

Category:Footballers from Stockholm

Category:Women's association football forwards

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Category:UEFA Women's Championship–winning players

Category:21st-century Swedish educators

Category:Hammarby Fotboll (women) players

Category:Swedish women's football managers

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Category:Karlbergs BK players

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