Jesper Karlström

Swedish footballer

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 (age 29)
Place of birth Stockholm, Sweden
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Udinese
Number 25
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)
2021–2024 Lech Poznań 111 (4)
2024– Udinese 2 (0)
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 24 August 2024
‡ 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 Serie A club Udinese 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] In three-and-a-half-years, he totaled 144 appearances, four goals and nine assists across all competitions for Lech, won the 2021–22 Ekstraklasa title and contributed to the club's best-ever European campaign in 2022–23, when they reached the UEFA Europa Conference League quarter-finals.[11]

Udinese

On 3 August 2024, Karlström moved to Italian club Udinese on a two-year deal, for a reported fee of €2 million with potential bonuses.[12]

International career

Karlström has represented Sweden at the U17, U19 and U21 levels.[13] 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.[13][14]

Career statistics

Club

As of 6 September 2024[15]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
IF Brommapojkarna 2012 Superettan 0 0 — — — 0 0
2013 Allsvenskan 14 0 5 1 — — 19 1
2014 27 3 1 0 6[a] 0 — 34 3
Total 41 3 6 1 6 0 — 53 4
Djurgårdens IF 2015 Allsvenskan 26 1 2 1 — — 28 2
2016 16 1 4 1 — — 20 2
2017 24 3 3 1 — — 27 4
2018 25 0 7 0 2[a] 0 — 34 0
2019 28 2 6 2 — — 34 4
2020 28 1 4 1 3[b] 0 — 35 2
Total 147 8 26 6 5 0 — 178 14
IF Brommapojkarna (loan) 2017 Superettan 2 1 — — — 2 1
Lech Poznań 2020-21 Ekstraklasa 16 0 2 0 — — 18 0
2021-22 32 1 4 0 — — 36 1
2022-23 31 1 1 0 19[c] 0 1[d] 0 52 1
2023-24 30 2 2 0 4[e] 0 — 36 2
2024-25 2 0 — — — 2 0
Total 111 4 9 0 23 0 1 0 144 4
Udinese 2024-25 Serie A 3 0 1 0 — — 4 0
Career Total 304 16 42 7 34 0 1 0 381 23
  1. ^ a b Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
  2. ^ One appearance in UEFA Champions League, Two appearances in UEFA Europa League
  3. ^ Two appearances in UEFA Champions League, Seventeen appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
  4. ^ Appearance(s) in Polish Super Cup
  5. ^ Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa Conference League

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year[16]
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. ^ a b "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. ^ "Jesper Karlström żegna się z Lechem" (in Polish). Lech Poznań. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  12. ^ Maj, Jakub (3 August 2024). "Lech Poznań sprzedał zawodnika. Jesper Karlström przeniósł się do Włoch. Kosta Runjaić go chciał". gol24.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  13. ^ a b "Jesper Karlström - Spelarstatistik - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.se. (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  14. ^ "Sverige - Danmark - Matchfakta - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.sehttps (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 October 2021.[permanent dead link]
  15. ^ Jesper Karlström at Soccerway. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  16. ^ "Jesper Karlström - Spelarstatistik - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.se. (in Swedish). Retrieved 16 March 2022.
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