# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/torbjorn-nilsson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:00:55.772Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/torbjorn-nilsson"
name: "Torbjörn Nilsson"
slug: "torbjorn-nilsson"
description: "Torbjörn Anders Nilsson is a Swedish former football player and manager. A forward, he is considered one of the best Swedish footballers of all time. He is best remembered for his time with IFK Göteborg with which he won two Swedish championship titles, the 1981–82 UEFA Cup, and reached the semi-finals of the 1985–86 European Cup. He also represented PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands and 1. FC Kaiserslautern in Germany during a career that spanned between 1971 and 1990. A full international between 1976 and 1985, he won 28 caps for the Sweden national team and scored nine goals. He represented his country at the 1978 FIFA World Cup and was the 1982 recipient of Guldbollen."
tagline: "Swedish footballer and manager"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "SE"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1954-07-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           18.969416
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump