Jimmy Thelin

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Jimmy Thelin
Personal information
Full name Bo Jimmy Thelin
Date of birth (1978-03-14) 14 March 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth Jönköping, Sweden
Team information
Current team
Aberdeen (manager)
Youth career
IF Hagapojkarna
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1995–2003 IF Hagapojkarna 315 (81)
Managerial career
2005–2007 Ljungarum
2008–2014 Jönköping (youth)
2014–2017 Jönköping
2018–2024 Elfsborg
2024– Aberdeen
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bo Jimmy Thelin (born 14 March 1978) is a Swedish football coach and former player who is currently the manager of Aberdeen.

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He is the older brother of Tommy Thelin, former forward and captain of Jönköping.

Playing career

He played until 2003 as a centre-back for IF Hagapojkarna [1] (now renamed IF Haga), [2] one of the local minor teams of the city of Jönköping, in the fourth and in the fifth level in the league system of Swedish football.

Managerial career

He began his coaching career taking over as Ljungarum coach in 2005. This newly founded team had its first effective season in 2006, [3] dominating the Division 6 championship with 17 wins out of 18 games total. [4]

Thelin remained at Ljungarum until 2008, winning another championship. In 2009, he started managing the Jönköping Under-17 team, before coaching the Under-19 and the Under-21 teams of the same club. [5]

At the beginning of the 2014 season, the previous Jönköping coach Mats Gren moved to the role of sporting director for IFK Göteborg, so the team found itself without a manager when 2014 Superettan had already started. [6] The board decided to promote Jimmy Thelin as a head coach of the first team, [7] finishing the season in fourth place (the club's best finish since 1976). [8] In the following season, he achieved an even better result, leading J-Södra back to the Allsvenskan, after 46 years since the last time. [9]

It was announced on 16 April 2024 that Thelin had been appointed as the new manager of Aberdeen on a three-year deal starting in June 2024. [10]

Competitive Managerial record

As of match played 17 August 2024
Managerial record by team and tenure
TeamFromToRecord
GWDLWin %
Jönköping 22 April 201431 December 2017130553540042.3
Elfsborg 1 January 20181 June 20242231045564046.6
Aberdeen 3 June 2024Present7700100.0
Total36216890104046.4

Honours

Manager

Jönköping

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  10. "Aberdeen agree deal for Elfsborg head coach Thelin". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 April 2024.