{{Short description|Swedish football coach and former player (born 1988)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Malin Levenstad | image = Malin Levenstad 2011-07-31.JPG | image_size = 175 | caption = | fullname = Eva Malin Sofia Levenstad<ref>{{cite web|title=Malin Levenstad |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/le/malin-levenstad-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222165641/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/search/athlete_search.cgi?search=malin+levenstad+ |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 February 2020 |publisher=Sports-Reference.com|accessdate=11 June 2013}}</ref> | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1988|9|13}} | birth_place = [[Vellinge]], [[Sweden]] | height = 1.65 m | currentclub = | clubnumber = | position = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]] | youthyears1 = 1995–2000 | youthclubs1 = Vellinge IF | youthyears2 = 2001–2004 | youthclubs2 = [[FC Rosengård|Malmö]] | years1 = 2005–2015 | clubs1 = [[FC Rosengård|LdB FC Malmö]] | caps1 = 158 | goals1 = 0 | years2 = 2014 | clubs2 = → [[AIK Fotboll Dam|AIK]] (loan) | caps2 = 9 | goals2 = 0 | years3 = 2019–2020 | clubs3 = [[FC Rosengård]] | caps3 = 36 | goals3 = 0 | nationalyears1 = 2008–2013 | nationalteam1 = [[Sweden women's national football team|Sweden]] | nationalcaps1 = 8 | nationalgoals1 = 0 | managerclubs1 = [[FC Rosengård]] (assistant) | manageryears1 = 2016–2020 | managerclubs2 = [[FC Rosengård]] | manageryears2 = 2017 | managerclubs3 = [[Linköpings FC]] (assistant) | manageryears3 = 2021– | pcupdate = | ntupdate = }}
'''Eva Malin Sofia Levenstad''' (born 13 September 1988) is a [[Swedes|Swedish]] [[Association football|football]] [[Coach (sports)|coach]] and former [[Defender (association football)|defender]]. She previously played for [[FC Rosengård]] (formerly known as LdB FC Malmö) of the [[Damallsvenskan]] and spent a short period on [[Loan (sports)|loan]] at [[AIK Fotboll Dam|AIK]] in 2014.<ref>[https://www.uefa.com/womenschampionsleague/news/01f6-0e12491f36bf-a4620a396c6d-1000--malmo-hope-to-reverse-tavagnacco-deficit/ Malmö hope to reverse Tavagnacco deficit] [[UEFA]].com</ref> She stopped playing in 2014, but returned to Rosengård in a coaching capacity in 2016. In 2017, she was the [[head coach]] of Rosengård – the youngest head coach in [[Damallsvenskan]]. She resumed her playing career with the club in 2019. In 2021 she stopped playing again to take a position as an assistant coach at [[Linköpings FC]].
Levenstad currently works as an agent for the global football agency CMG, representing players and coaches within women's football.
==Club career==
In November 2013, Champions Malmö sent Levenstad on [[Loan (sports)|loan]] to AIK for the first half of the 2014 season.<ref>{{cite web|title=Malmö lånar ut Malin Levenstad|url=http://www.damfotboll.com/nyheter/2013/11/malmo-lanar-ut-malin-levenstad|work=Damfotboll.com|date=26 November 2013|accessdate=28 November 2013|first=Anette|last=Börjesson|authorlink=Anette Börjesson|archive-date=3 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203065450/http://www.damfotboll.com/nyheter/2013/11/malmo-lanar-ut-malin-levenstad|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Levenstad retired from playing in 2014, but was named FC Rosengård's assistant coach in November 2016. In the club's previous guise as LdB FC Malmö, Levenstad had been team captain and won three league titles.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sjöstrand|first1=Simon|title=Hon blir ny tränare i FC Rosengård|url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/sverige/damallsvenskan/article23964125.ab|accessdate=29 December 2016|publisher=Aftonbladet|date=22 November 2016|language=Swedish}}</ref> In September 2017, with the termination of FC Rosengård's head coach Jack Majgaard Jensen's contract, it was announced that Levenstad was to continue as Rosengård's head coach for the remainder of the [[2017 Damallsvenskan|2017 season]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Fritze|first1=Gunilla|title=Tidigare spelare tar över som tränare|url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/lagkaptenen-tar-over-1|accessdate=9 October 2017|publisher=[[Sveriges Television|SVT]]|date=28 September 2017|language=Swedish}}</ref>
In February 2019, she came out of retirement to resume her playing career.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2019-02-03/comeback-mot-alla-odds-for-rosengardsveteranen-en-lycka|title=Comeback mot alla odds för Rosengårdsveteranen: "En lycka"|website=Sydsvenskan|date=3 February 2019 }}</ref> In December 2020 she stopped playing again to take a position as an assistant coach at [[Linköpings FC]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dolck Wall |first1=Johan |title=Levenstad avslutar karriären – och är klar för Linköping |url=https://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/sport/fotboll/damallsvenskan/levenstad-avslutar-karriaren-och-ar-klar-for-linkoping/ |access-date=2 May 2021 |publisher=[[Expressen]] |date=4 December 2020 |language=Swedish}}</ref>
==International career==
She debuted for the [[Sweden women's national football team|Swedish national team]] in February 2008, a 2–0 win over [[Norway women's national football team|Norway]].<ref>[https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/01ca-0e10b3d18cc5-458631874a19-1000--youthful-sweden-see-off-norway/ Youthful Sweden see off Norway] UEFA.com</ref> Levenstad was included in the Sweden squad for the [[Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|2012 London Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Women's Olympic Football Tournament London 2012 – List of Players Sweden |url=https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/01/66/36/85/woft-final-lop-2012-07-24.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804002100/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/01/66/36/85/woft-final-lop-2012-07-24.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 4, 2012|work=[[FIFA]]|date=24 July 2012|accessdate=11 June 2013}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{UEFA player|102248}} * {{SvFF player|id=b30ee512-3429-43c7-8c17-b299d3ea116b|fid=313293|pid=5598}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160314023505/https://svenskfotboll.se/damallsvenskan/person/?playerid=5598 archive]) * {{Soccerway|malin-levenstad/7679}} * [https://agencycmg.com/connect/ Malin Levenstad] at CMG
{{Sweden women's squad 2012 Summer Olympics}}
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