Jesper Karlström
Karlström playing for Djurgårdens IF in 2020
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 (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Lech Poznań
Number 6
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 93 (4)
International career‡
2012 Sweden U17 9 (3)
2013–2014 Sweden U19 15 (0)
2014–2015 Sweden U21 5 (1)
2018– Sweden 13 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:44, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:55, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Jesper Kewe Karlström (born 21 June 1995) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ekstraklasa club Lech Poznań and the Sweden national team.

Club career

Early career

Karlström started out his career playing for Hammarby IF 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.[1][2]

IF Brommapojkarna

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]

Djurgårdens IF

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 Karlström 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]

Lech Poznań

On 2 December 2020, Lech Poznań announced Karlström had signed from Djurgårdens IF on a contract until June 2024.[10]

International career

Karlström has represented Sweden at the U17, U19 and U21 levels.[11] In November 2014 he made his debut for the Sweden national under-21 football team against Austria.[6]

He made his full international debut for the Sweden national team on 11 January 2018 in a friendly 1–0 win against Denmark, playing for 66 minutes before being replaced by Kristoffer Olsson.[11][12]

Career statistics

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year[13]
National team Year Apps Goals
Sweden 2018 1 0
2019 0 0
2020 0 0
2021 0 0
2022 9 0
2023 3 0
Total 13 0

Honours

Djurgårdens IF

Lech Poznań

References

  1. ↑ "Djurgården kändes perfekt – jag velade ingenting". FotbollDirekt. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Jesper Karlström". svenskfotboll.se. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  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. 3 May 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  6. 1 2 "Jesper Karlström klar för DIF". Djurgårdens IF. Archived from the original on 24 January 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "DIF.se | Djurgården cupmästare". Archived from the original on 11 May 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  8. ↑ "Djurgården Svenska Mästare 2019".
  9. ↑ "Här tänds hoppet för Djurgården".
  10. ↑ "Jesper Karlström od stycznia piłkarzem Lecha" (in Polish). Lech Poznań. 2 December 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  11. 1 2 "Jesper Karlström - Spelarstatistik - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.se. (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  12. ↑ "Sverige - Danmark - Matchfakta - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.sehttps (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  13. ↑ "Jesper Karlström - Spelarstatistik - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.se. (in Swedish). Retrieved 16 March 2022.
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