Jesper Karlström

Jesper Karlström (born 21 June 1995) is a Swedish footballer who plays for Lech Poznań as a midfielder.[1]

Jesper Karlström
Karlström playing for Djurgårdens IF
Personal information
Full name Jesper Kewe Karlström
Date of birth (1995-06-21) 21 June 1995
Place of birth Stockholm, Sweden
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Lech Poznań
Number 22
Youth career
2001–2004 Hammarby IF
2004–2012 IF Brommapojkarna
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2014 IF Brommapojkarna 41 (3)
2015–2020 Djurgårdens IF 147 (8)
2017 → IF Brommapojkarna (loan) 2 (1)
2021– Lech Poznań 1 (0)
National team‡
2012 Sweden U17 9 (3)
2013–2014 Sweden U19 15 (0)
2014–2015 Sweden U21 5 (1)
2018– Sweden 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 January 2021
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 January 2018

Club career

Karlström started out his career playing for Hammarby Fotboll at the age of six. When he turned nine the coach of his team moved to IF Brommapojkarna and brought his entire youth team along with him to the new club, including Karlström.[2]

Shortly after his eighteenth birthday in 2013, Karlström made his Allsvenskan debut for Brommapojkarna away against Kalmar FF.[3] At the start of the next year he scored for the first time when his game-winning goal in the last game of the 2013–14 Svenska Cupen group stage qualified the club for the knockout stage of the tournament.[4] A few months later he also scored his first league goal in the 3–0 home win against IFK Norrköping.[5]

Brommapojkarna were relegated at the end of the 2014 Allsvenskan season, but Karlström had performed well enough to be signed by the larger Stockholm club Djurgårdens IF on a four-year deal.[6] Ahead of 2017 Karlström had his shirt number changed from 22 to 6. On 10 May 2018 he played as Djurgarden beat Malmö FF 3–0 in the Swedish Cup Final.[7]

In 2019 Jesper crowned himself as a Swedish champion as part of the Djurgårdens IF team that won the Swedish league for a twelfth time.[8] Jesper contributed with the 2–1 goal in the remarkable second-half comeback to win the title.[9]

Jesper Karlström came in second place in the stay and play cup 2020.

On 2 December 2020, Lech Poznań announced they had bought Jesper from Djurgårdens IF and that he had signed a contract until June 2024.[10]

International career

Karlström has represented Sweden at the U17, U19 and U21 levels. In November 2014 he made his debut for the Sweden national under-21 football team against Austria.[6]

Honours

Club
Djurgårdens IF

References
  1. "Jesper Karlström". svenskfotboll.se. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  2. "Djurgården kändes perfekt – jag velade ingenting". FotbollDirekt. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  3. "Jesper nöjd med debuten". IF Brommapojkarna. Archived from the original on 26 February 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  4. "Jespers första - BP cupvann". IF Brommapojkarna. Archived from the original on 26 February 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  5. "Stjärnskottet gav BP segern". Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  6. "Jesper Karlström klar för DIF". Djurgårdens IF. Archived from the original on 24 January 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-05-11. Retrieved 2018-05-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. https://www.allsvenskan.se/nyheter/nyheter-fran-allsvenskan.se/djurgarden-svenska-mastare-2019
  9. https://www.expressen.se/tv/sport/fotboll/allsvenskan/klipp/har-tands-hoppet-for-djurgarden/
  10. "Jesper Karlström od stycznia piłkarzem Lecha" (in Polish). Lech Poznań. 2 December 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
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