Nils-Åke Sandell
Personal information
Full name Nils-Åke Sandell
Date of birth (1927-02-05)5 February 1927
Place of birth Lund, Sweden
Date of death 29 May 1992(1992-05-29) (aged 65)
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
? Lunds BK ? (?)
? IFK Malmö 60 (73)
–1952 Lunds BK ? (?)
1952–1956 Malmö FF 68 (62)
1956–1958 SPAL 1907 49 (13)
1958 Malmö FF 4 (2)
International career
1952–1956 Sweden 20 (20)
Managerial career
1959–1963 Malmö FF
Skurup
Lunds Bois
Tomelilla
Ystads IF
IFK Trelleborg
IFK Malmö
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nils-Åke Sandell (5 February 1927 – 29 May 1992) was a Swedish football player and manager.

Club career

Sandell started his playing career in his birth city Lund at local club Lunds BK. After a brief period at IFK Malmö he returned to Lund before moving to Malmö FF in the 1952 season. After spending 4 years in Malmö Sandell had quite a reputation for being a goalscorer and tried his luck in Italy and SPAL 1907. After his period in Italy Sandell returned to Malmö FF and played one last season there in 1958.

Malmö FF players in 1955: from left Charles Gustafsson, Henry Thillberg, Nils-Åke Sandell, Bengt Lindskog and Bertil Nilsson.

International career

He played a crucial role in Sweden's triumph at the 1952–55 Nordic Football Championship, being the top goal scorer of the tournament with 10 goals in 8 caps,[1] and he was also part of Sweden's squad for the football tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.[2]

Managerial career

After returning from Italy and playing for a couple of games during the 1958 season Sandell were asked to become manager of the club. He managed the club from 1959 to 1963 winning no titles. Sandells manager career continued throughout regional clubs in Skåne and finished his career at IFK Malmö, nearly managing to promote them to Allsvenskan in 1980.

Honours

Sweden

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "Sweden national football team results". football.eu. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  2. ↑ "Nils-Åke Sandell". Olympedia. Retrieved 5 November 2021.

Sources

  • Malmström, Håkan (2010). 100 MFF:ARE. Sydsvenska Dagbladets AB. pp. 100–101. ISBN 978-91-85319-71-8.


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