Dan Inge Jörgen Lennartsson (born 10 April 1965) is a Swedish football manager and former player.
Career
Lennartsson was born in Växjö. He became the manager of the Swedish U21 team after he had held many positions in various clubs in Sweden, the majority of which were youth coach and assistant manager positions.
After the appointment of Erik Hamrén as the head coach of the Sweden men's national football team there was speculation about Lennartsson being appointed assistant coach.
On 2 August 2010, Stabæk announced that Lennartson would take over as head coach, and replace Jan Jönsson on 1 January 2011. But only after one season in Stabæk, Lennartson had to leave his post as a manager due to Stabæks big economic problems.
Before the 2012 Allsvenskan season, Lennartsson signed a four-year contract as a head manager for IF Elfsborg. He took over Elfsborg from Magnus Haglund who had been in Elfsborg for eight years, but moved to be the coach of Lillestrøm SK. Lennartsson had been under Elfsborg's radar for a long time, not only for his achievements with the Sweden U21 team, the bronze medal in the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, but mostly for his passion to football and his strong authority and leadership. He has much knowledge about football and experience as a coach after 20 years at the sideline. His first player to buy was Joackim Jørgensen from Sarpsborg 08 in Norway, a player as he described was much alike Jari Ilola. He played in the Europa League qualification 2012–13 with Elfsborg.
On 30 September 2013, IF Elfsborg sacked manager Jörgen Lennartsson.
Before the start of the 2015 Allsvenskan season, IFK Göteborg appointed Lennartsson as manager following the sacking of previous head coach Mikael Stahre.
Honours Manager BK Häcken Superettan: 2004 Superettan
IF Elfsborg Allsvenskan: 2012 Allsvenskan
References
External links Profile at the Swedish football association