Hampus Nilsson

Hampus Nilsson
Nilsson in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-07-17) 17 July 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Osby, Sweden
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Eskilsminne
Youth career
1994–2006 IFK Osby
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007 Landskrona BoIS 0 (0)
2008–2012 Helsingborgs IF 0 (0)
2009 → Högaborgs BK (loan) 18 (0)
2010–2011 → IFK Värnamo (loan) 43 (1)
2012 → Ängelholms FF (loan) 13 (0)
2013–2016 Djurgårdens IF 8 (0)
2016 → Östersunds FK (loan) 6 (0)
2017–2019 Falkenbergs FF 29 (0)
2020–2021 Trelleborgs FF 29 (0)
2022– Eskilsminne 0 (0)
International career
2007 Sweden U19 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 November 2021

Hampus Nilsson (born 17 July 1990) is a Swedish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Eskilsminne.[1]

Career

Hampus Nilsson started his career in IFK Osby as a four year old. He played both as a field player and goalkeeper until the age of thirteen when he decided to focus on the latter. After a year at Landskrona BoIS he joined Helsingborgs IF where he would never get any first team playtime but instead spent several seasons on loan. During his loan with IFK Värnamo in 2010 he helped the club win promotion to second tier Superettan where he also played the following year and then with Ängelholms FF in 2012.[2]

After being released by Helsingborg at the end of 2012 Nilsson was considering retiring from football when he was contacted by agent Markus Karlsson who arranged a trial for him with Allsvenskan club Djurgårdens IF which resulted in a two-year deal before the start of the 2013 Allsvenskan season.[3][4] In October 2014 he signed a new four-year contract.[5] He finally made his Allsvenskan debut for Djurgården in a 2–0 win against Falkenberg on 24 October 2015, playing for the first time instead of Kenneth Høie who spent the previous 101 games on the pitch.[6]

On 11 August 2016 Nilsson was loaned out to Allsvenskan side Östersunds FK for the rest of the season due to the arrival of Andreas Isaksson.[7]

On 1 December 2016 Nilsson signed for Falkenbergs FF. Nilsson was one out of six players who left the club at the end of 2019.[8] On 8 January 2020, Nilsson signed a two-year deal with Trelleborgs FF.[9]

On 30 November 2021, Nilsson agreed to join Eskilsminne in the fourth-tier Division 2 for the 2022 season.[10]

International career

Nilsson played two games for the Sweden men's national under-19 football team in 2007.[11]

Personal life

Nilsson also played ice hockey in his youth, but when he signed with Landskrona BoIS in 2007 he made the decision to solely focus on football. After joining Djurgården he often stood with the singing section at the home games of the clubs hockey team, which quickly made him a favourite among the fans.[4][12]

References

  1. ^ "Hampus Nilsson". Swedish Football Association.
  2. ^ "Äntligen allsvensk debut för Hampus". Norra Skåne. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  3. ^ Sven Bertil Liljegren (12 February 2013). "Dif värvar målvakt från superettan". Fotbollskanalen.
  4. ^ a b "DIFpodden #46 – Hampus Nilsson". DIFpodden. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  5. ^ "Hampus blir kvar i Djurgården". Helsingborgs Dagblad. 27 February 2015.
  6. ^ "Succédebutanten: Jag har varit så jäkla bra". Aftonbladet.
  7. ^ "Hampus Nilsson lånas ut till Östersund". dif.se. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  8. ^ Sex spelare lämnar: ”Samtliga har medverkat till vår framgång”, falkenbergsff.se, 20 November 2019
  9. ^ Välkommen Hampus Nilsson!, trelleborgsff.se, 8 January 2020
  10. ^ "Etablerad elitmålvakt klar för Eskils" (Press release) (in Swedish). Eskilsminne. 30 November 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  11. ^ "P17/90-landslagets spelare 2007". Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  12. ^ "Publikfavoriten Hampus Nilsson: "Jag är stolt över att vara populär, min kärlek till dem är stor"". extraTräning. Retrieved 27 February 2015.