Rune Börjesson

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Rune Börjesson
BildBörjesson1959.jpg
Harry Bild and Börjesson in 1959
Personal information
Full name Rune Börjesson
Date of birth (1937-04-05)5 April 1937
Place of birth Gothenburg, Sweden
Date of death 21 February 1996(1996-02-21) (aged 58)
Place of death Gothenburg, Sweden
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
–1951 Hovås IF
1951–1954 Örgryte IS
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1955–1961 Örgryte IS
1961–1963 Juventus 0 (0)
1961–1963 → Palermo (loan) 38 (10)
1963–1967 Örgryte IS
1968–? Hovås IF
National team
1955–1957 Sweden U21 3 (0)
1955–1958 Sweden B 2 (2)
1958–1961 Sweden 20 (17)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
The Sweden national football team in 1961 with this players – from the left, standing: Bengt "Fölet" Berndtsson, Torbjörn Jonsson, Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson, Agne Simonsson, Rune Börjesson and Lennart Backman; crouched: Olle "Lill-Lappen" Hellström, Orvar Bergmark, Bengt "Zamora" Nyholm, Lennart Wing and Gösta "Knivsta" Sandberg.

Rune Börjesson (5 April 1937 – 21 February 1996) was a Swedish professional footballer who played as a forward. He was the Allsvenskan top scorer in 1959 and 1960 while at Örgryte IS, and later played professionally in Serie A with Juventus and Palermo. He won 20 caps for the Sweden national team, scoring 17 goals.

Club career[]

Early career and first stint at Örgryte IS[]

Rune Börjesson started off his career with Hovås IF, before being signed by Örgryte IS at the age of 14.[1]

While at Örgryte, Börjesson formed a successful striker partnership with the prolific striker Agne Simonsson.[1] In 1955, Börjesson was awarded GT's as the best player in West Sweden.[2]

During the 1957–58 Division 2 Västra Götaland season, Börjesson helped Örgryte win promotion to Allsvenskan for the first time in 19 years by scoring a total of 40 goals.[1] In his first ever Allsvenskan season, Börjesson finished as the Allsvenskan top scorer with 21 goals, as Örgryte claimed a respectable fourth position in the 1959 table.[3] The following season Börjesson yet again finished as the league's top scorer with 24 goals, helping his team finish third.[4]

Serie A[]

Börjesson signed with the Italian Serie A team Juventus after the 1961 Allsvenskan season but was quickly loaned out to Palermo where he spent two seasons, playing in 38 games and scoring 10 goals.[1][5]

Return to Örgryte and retirement[]

Börjesson returned to Örgryte in 1963 after his stint in Italy and was reunited with his former striker partner Agne Simonsson, who had returned from a spell in La Liga with Real Madrid and Real Sociedad.[1] He left Örgryte at the end of the 1967 Allsvenskan season to round up his career with his boyhood club Hovås IF.[1]

Börjesson scored a total of 91 goals in 125 Allsvenskan games during his two stints at Örgryte IS.[1] In all divisions for Örgryte, he scored a total of 202 league goals, which puts him second behind Agne Simonsson for most league goals of all time for Örgryte.[6]

International career[]

Börjesson started his international career with the Sweden U21 team, representing them in three games.[7] Prior to making his senior debut, he also represented the Sweden B team twice, scoring two goals.[7]

Börjesson eventually made his international senior debut for Sweden in a home game against Norway on 14 September 1958, in which he also scored his first international goal.[1] He played for Sweden in their unsuccessful 1962 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, but never appeared in a major tournament.[7] He won a total of 20 caps for Sweden, scoring 17 goals.[8]

Career statistics[]

International[]

Appearances and goals by national team and year[7]

National team Year Apps Goals
Sweden 1958 2 2
1959 6 5
1960 6 6
1961 6 4
Total 20 17

Honours[]

Örgryte IS

Individual

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "SvenskaFans". www.svenskafans.com. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  2. ^ "LISTA: Här är alla vinnare av Kristallkulan". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Allsvenskan i Fotboll 1959". www.fotbollsweden.se. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Allsvenskan i Fotboll 1960". www.fotbollsweden.se. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Swedish Players and Coaches in Italy since 1945". www.rsssf.com. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Flest seriemål". fotboll.ois.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  7. ^ a b c d "Rune Börjesson - Spelarstatistik - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.se. (in Swedish). Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  8. ^ "Sveriges landslagsmän 1908-2017". Svensk Fotboll.
  9. ^ "Stora Grabbars Märke - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 24 February 2021.
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