Michael Käld

{{short description|Finnish football manager (born 1954)}}

{{BLP sources|date=June 2013}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| name = Michael Käld

| image = MichaelKald.jpg

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| caption = Käld in 2009

| fullname = Mikael Johan Bernhard Käld

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|05|06|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kronoby, Finland

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| currentclub =

| manageryears1 = 1991–1997 | managerclubs1 = GBK Kokkola

| manageryears2 = 1998–1999 | managerclubs2 = NIK Nykarleby

| manageryears3 = 2000 | managerclubs3 = FC United

| manageryears4 = 2001–2009 | managerclubs4 = Finland women's national team

| manageryears5 = 2010–2013 | managerclubs5 = Kokkola F10

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Mikael Johan Bernhard Käld (born 6 May 1954) is a Finnish football manager who most recently worked at Kokkola F10 in the Finnish women's premier division Kansallinen Liiga. Käld was the head coach of Finland women's national football team from 2001 to 2009.[http://www.mikaelkald.nu/?page_id=117 Michael Käld CV] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111211083313/http://www.mikaelkald.nu/?page_id=117 |date=11 December 2011 }} (in Swedish). Retrieved 21 May 2013.

Käld spent his own player career in the Finnish lower divisions. His debut as a women's manager Käld made in 2000 by coaching Jakobstad in Naisten Liiga (renamed Kansallainen Liiga in 2020). A year later he was named as the head coach of Finland women's team. Käld coached Finland in 2005 and 2009 UEFA Women's Championship. In 2005, Finland reached the semi-finals and 2009 the quarter-finals.

Michael Käld was nominated the Finnish Football Manager of the Year in 2004 and 2005.[http://www.jalkapallovalmentajat.fi/taustaa/palkitut_valmentajat/ Finnish Football Managers' Association] (in Finnish). Retrieved 21 June 2013.