* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).
Sture "Stöttan" Gillström (3 December 1908 – 28 January 1978) was a Swedishfootball, ice hockey and bandy player, known for representing Hammarby IF in all three sports.
Early life
Sture Gillström grew up in a working-class home in a southern part of Stockholm known as Södermalm. He and his two siblings were raised by the mother, since the father died in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.[1]
Athletic career
Football
He started to play football with the local club Hammarby IF as a youngster. On 2 August 1925, at the age of 16, Gillström debuted in the senior team, in the first fixture of the Division 2 campaign, and scored two goals as Hammarby won 3–2 against Sundbybergs IK.[3]
Gillström established himself as an important offensive player in Hammarby, competing in the Swedish second tier, and was the club's top scorer during four seasons.[1] In total, Gillström made 159 league appearances for Hammarby, scoring 72 goals, between 1925 and 1936.[2]
He enjoyed a brief stint at the Allsvenskan club AIK, during the season of 1933–34. Back in Hammarby for the 1934–35 season, Gillström scored a hattrick on 5 May 1935 against Västerviks AIS and become the team's top scorer for the season with eight goals.[4]
After definitely leaving Hammarby in 1936, Gillström finished his playing career with Sundbyberg in the Swedish lower divisions.[2]
Gillström also showed promise as a bandy player, winning the Stockholm junior district championship in 1926 with Hammarby.[3] As a player in the men's senior team, Gillström helped establish Hammarby among the top bandy clubs in Sweden at the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s.[1]