Ragnar Gunnarsson

Ragnar Gunarsson
Personal information
Date of birth (1891-12-07)7 December 1891
Place of birth Stockholm, Sweden
Date of death 13 March 1967(1967-03-13) (aged 75)
Place of death Stockholm, Sweden
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1910–1915 Klara SK
1915–1918 Hammarby IF
International career
1916 Sweden 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ragnar Gunnarsson (7 December 1891 – 13 March 1967) was a Swedish footballer who played as a forward, known for scoring the first goal in Hammarby IF's history in 1915. He won one cap for the Sweden men's national football team.

Athletic career

Football

Gunnarsson (right) scoring for Hammarby IF in a game against Johanneshofs IF on 6 May 1917.

On 15 August 1915, Gunnarsson scored the first ever competitive goal in Hammarby IF's history, in a 5–0 home win against Västerås SK. Earlier the same year, it had merged with local club Klara SK, where Gunnarsson had started his career.[1][2][3]

During the first seasons, Hammarby failed to reach the later stages of Svenska Mästerskapet, a cup by then held to decide the Swedish Champions. Known as a prolific goalscorer, Gunnarsson was one of the club's early key players together with goalkeeper Victor Olsson and defender Gösta Wihlborg.[4]

He won one cap for the Swedish football team, on 1 October 1916, playing the whole game in a 0–0 draw against Norway.[5][6] Gunnarsson left Hammarby at the end of 1918.[7]

Bandy

Like many other footballers at the time, Gunnarsson also played bandy with Hammarby IF between 1915 and 1918.[2][7]

Works cited

  • Persson, Gunnar (1996). Hammarby IF: En klubbhistoria 1897–1997 (in Swedish). Strömbergs Bokförlag. ISBN 91-7151-097-4.

References

  1. ^ Persson, p. 60-62
  2. ^ a b "1915" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Allt började i kvarteren Siken, Ålen, Nätet och Draget" (in Swedish). Supportrarnas Matchprogram. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Julkalendern lucka 3: SM-spel med silver" (in Swedish). Hammarby Fotboll. 3 December 2014. Archived from the original on 9 December 2014.
  5. ^ "Sveriges landslagsmän 1908-2017". Swedish Football Association (in Swedish). Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  6. ^ "Landslagsdatabasen: Ragnar Gunnarsson". Swedish Football Association (in Swedish). Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  7. ^ a b "1918" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 2 February 2021.