# Kristin Bengtsson

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Swedish footballer (born 1970)

Kristin Bengtsson Personal information Full name Gärd Kristin Bengtsson[1] Date of birth (1970-01-12) 12 January 1970 (age 56) Place of birth Stockholm, Sweden Height 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) Position Defender Youth career Viksjö IK Senior career* Years Team Apps (Gls) 1977–1987 IFK Viksjö 1988–1996 Hammarby IF 176 (32) 1997 Öxabäck IF 1998 Suzuyo Shimizu Lovely Ladies 1999 Athene Moss 1999–2001 Kopparbergs/Landvetter IF 2001 San Diego Spirit 2001 Carolina Courage 2002 Malmö FF 2003 Kopparbergs/Landvetter IF 2004–2007 Djurgårdens IF[a] 2008–2010 Hammarby IF 46 (5) International career 1991–2005 Sweden 157[2] (14) Managerial career 2013 Hammarby IF * Club domestic league appearances and goals

**Gärd Kristin** "**Kicki**" **Bengtsson** (born 12 January 1970) is a Swedish former [footballer](/source/Association_football) who played as a [defender](/source/Defender_(association_football)). She represented the [Sweden national team](/source/Sweden_women's_national_football_team) from 1991 to 2005.

## International career

She holds 157 caps for the [Swedish women's national team](/source/Sweden_women's_national_football_team). Bengtsson has appeared in three [World Cups](/source/FIFA_Women's_World_Cup), [1995](/source/1995_FIFA_Women's_World_Cup), [1999](/source/FIFA_Women's_World_Cup_1999), and [2003](/source/FIFA_Women's_World_Cup_2003) competitions. She netted one goal in the 1999 competition, scoring the opening goal on her team's first day of match play against [China](/source/China_women's_national_football_team).[3] She competed at three Olympic Games with Sweden: [Atlanta 1996](/source/Football_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women's_tournament), [Sydney 2000](/source/Football_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women's_tournament), and [Athens 2004](/source/Football_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women's_tournament). Bengtsson also appeared in four [UEFA Championships](/source/UEFA_Women's_Championship) with Sweden, [1995](/source/UEFA_Women's_Euro_1995), [1997](/source/1997_UEFA_Women's_Championship), [2001](/source/2001_UEFA_Women's_Championship), and [2005](/source/2005_UEFA_Women's_Championship) competitions.

## Career statistics

### International

- *Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Bengtsson goal.*

List of international goals scored by Kristin Bengtsson No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Ref. June 19, 1999 San Jose, California China 1–0 1–2 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup [m 1] June 27, 2001 Jena England 2–0 4–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2001 [m 2]

## Honours

**Djurgårdens IF**

- [Damallsvenskan](/source/Damallsvenskan):[4] winner 2004

- [Svenska Cupen](/source/Svenska_Cupen_(women)): Winner 2004, 2005

**Hammarby IF**

- [Svenska Cupen](/source/Svenska_Cupen_(women)): Winner 1994, 1995

**Sweden**

- [FIFA Women's World Cup](/source/FIFA_Women's_World_Cup) runner-up: [2003](/source/2003_FIFA_Women's_World_Cup)

- [Summer Olympics](/source/Football_at_the_Summer_Olympics) fourth place: [2004](/source/Football_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women's_tournament)

- [UEFA Women's Championship](/source/UEFA_Women's_Championship) runner-up: [1995](/source/UEFA_Women's_Euro_1995), [2001](/source/UEFA_Women's_Euro_2001); fourth place: [1997](/source/UEFA_Women's_Euro_1997), [2005](/source/UEFA_Women's_Euro_2005)

- [Algarve Cup](/source/Algarve_Cup): [1995](/source/1995_Algarve_Cup), [2001](/source/2001_Algarve_Cup)

- [Four Nations Tournament](/source/Four_Nations_Tournament_(women's_football)) third place: [2004](/source/2004_Four_Nations_Tournament_(women's_football)); fourth place: [1998](/source/1998_Four_Nations_Tournament_(women's_football))

- Australia Cup: 2003[5]

**Individual**

- [Diamantbollen](/source/Diamantbollen): (2): 1994, [2004](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotbollsgalan_2004)[6]

- [Swedish Defender of the Year](/source/Fotbollsgalan)[7] (1): [2004](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotbollsgalan_2004)

## Footnotes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** 2004–2006 as [Djurgården/Älvsjö](/source/Djurg%C3%A5rden%2F%C3%84lvsj%C3%B6).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Kristin Bengtsson](https://www.fotball.no/fotballdata/person/profil/?fiksId=2023154) at the [Norwegian Football Federation](/source/Norwegian_Football_Federation) (in Norwegian)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Damlandslagsspelare 1973–2012"](https://svenskfotboll.se/ImageVault/Images/id_69553/ImageVaultHandler.aspx). Svenskfotboll.se. Retrieved 10 May 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["FIFA Women's World Cup USA 1999: MATCH Report: China – Sweden: Group Matches"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150615235512/http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/matches/round=4645/match=22165/index.html#nosticky). FIFA. Archived from [the original](https://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/matches/round=4645/match=22165/index.html#nosticky) on 15 June 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [http://www.difarkivet.se/dif_sm_guld_seniorer.pdf](http://www.difarkivet.se/dif_sm_guld_seniorer.pdf) [Djurgårdens IF SM-guld på seniornivå: difarkivet.se – Uppdaterad 2019-04-28](https://web.archive.org/web/20190630143919/http://www.difarkivet.se/dif_sm_guld_seniorer.pdf) at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) (archived 30 June 2019)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [Australia Cup](https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/australiacup-wom.html)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-diamantbollen_9-0)** ["Diamantbollen"](https://web.archive.org/web/20111121082553/http://svenskfotboll.se/svensk-fotboll/historia/historik-damer/diamantbollen/) (in Swedish). [Swedish Football Association](/source/Swedish_Football_Association). Archived from [the original](https://svenskfotboll.se/svensk-fotboll/historia/historik-damer/diamantbollen/) on 21 November 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["Övriga utmärkelser — fogis.se"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140518210151/http://fogis.se/fotbollsgalan/tidigare-vinnare/ovriga-utmarkelser/). Archived from [the original](http://fogis.se/fotbollsgalan/tidigare-vinnare/ovriga-utmarkelser/) on 18 May 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2015.

**Match reports**

1. **[^](#cite_ref-mat008_5-0)** ["FIFA Women's World Cup USA 1999: MATCH Report: China – Sweden: Group Matches"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150615235512/http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/matches/round=4645/match=22165/index.html#nosticky). FIFA. Archived from [the original](https://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/matches/round=4645/match=22165/index.html#nosticky) on 15 June 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-mat030_6-0)** ["2001 European Championship: MATCH Report: Sweden – England: Group matches"](https://www.worldfootball.net/match-report/ma1844074/lineup/). worldfootball.net.

## External links

- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; [Mallon, Bill](/source/Bill_Mallon); et al. ["Kristin Bengtsson"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200417204115/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/kristin-bengtsson-1.html). *Olympics at Sports-Reference.com*. [Sports Reference LLC](/source/Sports_Reference). Archived from [the original](https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/kristin-bengtsson-1.html) on 17 April 2020.

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Sweden squads v t e Sweden squad – 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup 1 Leidinge 2 Lundgren 3 Jakobsson 4 Sundhage (c) 5 Bengtsson 6 Pohjanen 7 Videkull 8 Hedberg 9 Andersson 10 Andelén 11 Kalte 12 A. Nilsson 13 Nessvold 14 Lönnqvist 15 Olsson 16 Zeikfalvy 17 Flink 18 H. Nilsson 19 Bozicevic 20 Johansson Coach: Simonsson v t e Sweden women's football squad – 1996 Summer Olympics 1 Nilsson 2 Sandell 3 Jakobsson 4 Nessvold 5 Bengtsson 6 Pohjanen 7 Sundhage (c) 8 Swedberg 9 Andersson 10 Kalte 11 Videkull 12 Karlsson 13 Svensson-Gustafsson 14 Kun 15 Carlsson 16 Ljungberg 17 Larsson 18 Lönnqvist 19 Bowall 20 Wahlgren Coach: Simonsson v t e Sweden squad – UEFA Women's Euro 1997 semi-finalists 1 Nilsson 2 Westberg 3 Törnqvist 4 Lönnqvist 5 Bengtsson 6 Pohjanen 7 Allberg 8 Swedberg (c) 9 M. Andersson 10 Ljungberg 11 Svensson 12 Karlsson 13 Wahlgren 14 Zeikfalvy 15 C. Andersson 16 Lilja 17 Larsson 18 Håkansson 19 Jonsson 20 Sandell Coach: Domanski-Lyfors v t e Sweden squad – 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup 1 Karlsson 2 Westberg 3 Törnqvist 4 Lönnqvist 5 Bengtsson 6 Moström 7 Sandell 8 Gustafsson 9 Andersson (c) 10 Ljungberg 11 Svensson 12 Thelin 13 Marklund 14 Sundh 15 Gren 16 Olsson 17 Fagerström 18 Lundin 19 Heponiemi 20 Nordlund Coach: Domanski-Lyfors v t e Sweden women's football squad – 2000 Summer Olympics 1 Jönsson 2 Westberg 3 Törnqvist 4 Larsson 5 Bengtsson 6 Moström 7 Sandell 8 Nordlund 9 Andersson (c) 10 Ljungberg 11 Svensson 12 Marklund 13 Call 14 Johansson 15 Fagerström 16 Swedberg 17 Sjögran 18 Karlsson 19 Lönnqvist 20 Flyborg 21 Sundh 22 Thelin Coach: Domanski-Lyfors v t e Sweden squad – UEFA Women's Euro 2001 runners-up 1 Jönsson 2 Westberg 3 Törnqvist 4 Marklund 5 Bengtsson 6 Moström 7 Larsson 8 Nordlund 9 Andersson (c) 10 Ljungberg 11 Svensson 12 Thelin 13 Eriksson 14 Fagerström 15 Sjögran 16 Flyborg 17 Lundin 18 Östberg 19 Call 20 Johansson Coach: Domanski-Lyfors v t e Sweden squad – 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup runners-up 1 Jönsson 2 Westberg 3 Törnqvist 4 Marklund 5 Bengtsson 6 Moström (c) 7 Larsson 8 Nordin 9 Andersson 10 Ljungberg 11 Svensson 12 Lundgren 13 Johansson 14 Fagerström 15 Sjögran 16 Olsson 17 Sjöström 18 Östberg 19 Call 20 Öqvist Coach: Domanski-Lyfors v t e Sweden women's football squad – 2004 Summer Olympics – Fourth place 1 Jönsson 2 Westberg 3 Törnqvist 4 Marklund 5 Bengtsson 6 Moström (c) 7 Larsson 8 Östberg 9 Andersson 10 Ljungberg 11 Svensson 12 Öqvist 13 Schelin 14 Fagerström 15 Sjögran 16 Olsson 17 Sjöström 18 Lindahl Coach: Domanski-Lyfors v t e Sweden squad – UEFA Women's Euro 2005 semi-finalists 1 Jönsson 2 Westberg 3 Törnqvist 4 Marklund 5 Bengtsson 6 Moström 7 Larsson 8 Östberg 9 Andersson (c) 10 Ljungberg 11 Svensson 12 Lindahl 13 Schelin 14 Karlsson 15 Sjögran 16 Seger 17 Sjöström 18 Åström 19 Paulson 20 Öqvist Coach: Domanski-Lyfors

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