Thomas Dennerby
Personal information
Full name Thomas Lennart Dennerby
Date of birth (1959-08-13) 13 August 1959 (age 64)
Place of birth Stockholm, Sweden
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1977−1985 Hammarby IF 157 (8)
1985−1987 Spårvägens IF
Managerial career
Värtans IK
Spårvägens FF
1996−1999 Hammarby IF DFF
2001 Hammarby IF (assistant)
2002−2004 Djurgården/Älvsjö
2005−2012 Sweden (women)
2013 Hammarby IF
2018−2019 Nigeria (women)
2019−2023 India U17 (women)
2019−2023 India U20 (women)
2021−2023 India (women)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Thomas Lennart Dennerby (born 13 August 1959) is a Swedish football coach. He managed Sweden to a third place finish at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. He last served as the head coach of the India women's football team.

Career

Dennerby, the former coach of the Nigeria women's national football team also known as super Falcons was previously a player in Hammarby IF[1] and Spårvägens IF, as well as the national U21 team. He has also worked as a police officer. As a coach, he won Allsvenskan with Hammarby IF in 2001, and Damallsvenskan with Djurgården/Älvsjö.[2]

Dennerby can be seen in the Sveriges Television documentary television series The Other Sport from 2013.

He became manager of the Nigerian women's national team in January 2018.[3] He resigned in October 2019.[4]

On 9 November 2019, All India Football Federation (AIFF) appointed Dennerby as the head coach of India U17 Women's team which is going to participate in the 2020 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup as the host of the edition.[5]

Later Thomas Dennerby took charge as Head Coach of the Indian Senior Women's National Team in August 2021.[6]

Honours

Individual

References

  1. ^ "Thomas Dennerby". mondedufoot.fr. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  2. ^ "uefa". Archived from the original on 8 September 2009.
  3. ^ "Swede Thomas Dennerby to coach Nigeria's women's team". 25 January 2018. Archived from the original on 21 April 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  4. ^ "Nigeria women's coach Thomas Dennerby resigns". 10 October 2019. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  5. ^ "AIFF appoints Thomas Dennerby as the head coach of U17- women's world cup team". AIFF. 9 November 2019. Archived from the original on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  6. ^ "Thomas Dennerby to take charge as Head Coach of Indian Senior Women's Team". AIFF. 13 August 2021. Archived from the original on 13 August 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Övriga utmärkelser — fogis.se". fogis.se. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  8. ^ "CAF Awards 2019: Former Super Falcons coach Thomas Dennerby nominated for African Women's Coach of the Year award". Pulse. Archived from the original on 27 November 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2020.

External links

Current managers of AFC women's national teams
Djurgårdens IF Fotboll (women) – managers
Sweden squads
Sweden women's national football team – managers
Hammarby Fotboll – managers
Nigeria squad – 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations winners (11st title)
Nigeria squad – 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
India squad – 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup
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