Sture Gillström

Sture "Stöttan" Gillström (3 December 1908 – 28 January 1978) was a Swedish football, ice hockey and bandy player, known for representing Hammarby IF in all three sports.

Sture Gillström
Sture Gillström in the Hammarby shirt, cerca 1930.
Born
Axel Sture Alexander Gillström

(1908-12-03)3 December 1908[1]
Stockholm, Sweden
Died28 January 1978(1978-01-28) (aged 69)[1]
Stockholm, Sweden
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in) [2]
Association football career
Position(s) Left winger / Forward
Youth career
1922–1925 Hammarby IF
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1925–1933 Hammarby IF 118 (51)
1933–1934 AIK 5 (3)
1934–1936 Hammarby IF 41 (21)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
Ice hockey career
Position Defenceman / Forward
Played for Hammarby IF
AIK
Playing career 1926–1934
Bandy career
Playing position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1927–1933 Hammarby

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (Goals).

Early life

Sture Gillström grew up in a working-class home in a southern part of Stockholm known as Södermalm. He and his two siblings were raised by the mother, since the father died in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.[1]

Athletic career

Football

He started to play football with the local club Hammarby IF as a youngster. On 2 August 1925, at the age of 16, Gillström debuted in the senior team, in the first fixture of the Division 2 campaign, and scored two goals as Hammarby won 3–2 against Sundbybergs IK.[3]

Gillström established himself as an important offensive player in Hammarby, competing in the Swedish second tier, and was the club's top scorer during four seasons.[1] In total, Gillström made 159 league appearances for Hammarby, scoring 72 goals, between 1925 and 1936.[2]

He enjoyed a brief stint at the Allsvenskan club AIK, one of Hammarby's main rivals, during the season of 1933. He scored 3 goals in 5 appearances for AIK in the first division, but the competition from other attacking players like Per Kaufeldt was ultimately to hard, and Gillström soon decided to return to Hammarby.[2]

After definitely leaving Hammarby in 1936, Gillström finished his playing career with Sundbyberg in the Swedish lower divisions.[2]

Ice hockey

Gillström also played ice hockey and won two Swedish championships, in 1932 and 1933, with Hammarby,[4][5] the club's first domestic titles.[6]

He was listed as a reserve player for AIK, but did not make any appearances, when the club was crowned Swedish champions in 1934.[2]

During his hockey career, Gillström was called up to the Swedish national team several times, but failed to win any caps for his county.[2]

Bandy

Gillström also showed promise as a bandy player, winning the Stockholm junior district championship in 1926 with Hammarby.[3] As a player in the men's senior team, Gillström helped establish Hammarby among the top bandy clubs in Sweden at the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s.[1]

Personal life

Besides being a sportsman, Gillström worked as a mechanical engineer for ASEA in both Stockholm and Västerås.[1]

References
  1. "Det här var Sture "Stöttan" Gillström" (PDF) (in Swedish). Hammarby Fotboll. 2000. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  2. "Sture Gillström - Hammarbyaren som blev svensk mästare i ishockey" (in Swedish). AIK. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  3. "1926" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  4. "Sture Gillström - Hammarbyaren som blev svensk mästare i ishockey" (PDF) (in Swedish). Swedish Ice Hockey Association. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  5. "Sture Gillström" (in Swedish). Eliteprospects. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  6. "1932" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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