Mats Gren

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Mats Gren
Personal information
Full name Mats Åke Gren
Date of birth (1963-12-20) 20 December 1963 (age 60)
Place of birth Falun, Sweden
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Central defender
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1978–1983 Falu BS 45 (12)
1984–1985 IFK Göteborg 40 (9)
1985–2000 Grasshopper 427 (45)
Total512(66)
International career
1984–1990 Sweden U21 12 (5)
1984–1992 Sweden 22 (0)
Managerial career
2004 Grasshopper (assistant)
2005–2006 FC Vaduz
2007–2009 Grasshopper (assistant)
2009–2011 Vejle
2012–2014 Jönköpings Södra
2014–2018 IFK Göteborg (director of sports)
2020–2021 Häcken women
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mats Åke Gren (born 20 December 1963) is a Swedish football coach and former player who played as a defender. He played for IFK Göteborg and Grasshopper during a professional career that spanned between 1978 and 2000. A full international between 1984 and 1992, he won 22 caps for the Sweden national team and represented his country at the 1990 FIFA World Cup. Gren was first playing as a forward, but as he was a utility player, the last ten years in Grasshopper he played as a defender and also became team captain. [1] [2]

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Club career

Gren played for Falu BS 1982–1984. He then played for IFK Göteborg in 1984–1985 and became Swedish champion in 1984. Gren then moved to Grasshopper, where he played from 1985 to 2000. He won the Swiss National League five times (1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1998) and won four Swiss Cup titles (1988, 1989, 1990, 1994). [3]

International career

Gren played 22 games for the Sweden national team and was on the squad in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, in one match as a substitute. [4]

Coaching career

He was assistant manager of Grasshopper from 2009. [5]

On 31 May 2009 he was named as the new head coach of Vejle Boldklub and signed over three years here between 30 June 2012.

Due to a poor start to the spring season of 2011, where Vejle dropped from 2nd to 3rd in the Danish 1st Division, Gren was sacked by the club board on 12 April 2011. [6]

In 2014, Gren left his job as manager Jönköpings Södra to take the role as sporting director at IFK Göteborg. On 10 October 2018, with the club showing poor results and having financial difficulties, IFK Göteborg sacked Gren. [7]

Career statistics

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year [8]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Sweden 198430
198520
198600
198710
198810
198930
199030
199160
199230
Total220

Honours

Player

IFK Göteborg [3]

Grasshopper [3]

Manager

BK Häcken

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