Sture Gillström

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Sture Gillström
Sture Gillström, football player for Hammarby IF.png
Sture Gillström in the Hammarby shirt, cerca 1930.
Born
Axel Sture Alexander Gillström

(1908-12-03)3 December 1908[1]
Stockholm, Sweden
Died28 January 1978(1978-01-28) (aged 69)[1]
Stockholm, Sweden
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in) [2]
Association football career
Position(s) Left winger / Forward
Youth career
1922–1925 Hammarby IF
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1925–1933 Hammarby IF 118 (51)
1933–1934 AIK 5 (3)
1934–1936 Hammarby IF 41 (21)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
Ice hockey career
Position Defenceman / Forward
Played for Hammarby IF
AIK
Playing career 1926–1934
Bandy career
Playing position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1927–1933 Hammarby

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (Goals).

Sture "Stöttan" Gillström (3 December 1908 – 28 January 1978) was a Swedish football, ice hockey and bandy player, known for representing Hammarby IF in all three sports.

Early life[]

Sture Gillström grew up in a working-class home in a southern part of Stockholm known as Södermalm. He and his two siblings were raised by the mother, since the father died in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.[1]

Athletic career[]

Football[]

He started to play football with the local club Hammarby IF as a youngster. On 2 August 1925, at the age of 16, Gillström debuted in the senior team, in the first fixture of the Division 2 campaign, and scored two goals as Hammarby won 3–2 against Sundbybergs IK.[3]

Gillström established himself as an important offensive player in Hammarby, competing in the Swedish second tier, and was the club's top scorer during four seasons.[1] In total, Gillström made 159 league appearances for Hammarby, scoring 72 goals, between 1925 and 1936.[2]

He enjoyed a brief stint at the Allsvenskan club AIK, during the season of 1933–34.

After definitely leaving Hammarby in 1936, Gillström finished his playing career with Sundbyberg in the Swedish lower divisions.[2]

Ice hockey[]

Gillström also played ice hockey and won two Swedish championships, in 1932 and 1933, with Hammarby,[4][5] the club's first domestic titles.[6]

Bandy[]

Gillström also showed promise as a bandy player, winning the Stockholm junior district championship in 1926 with Hammarby.[3] As a player in the men's senior team, Gillström helped establish Hammarby among the top bandy clubs in Sweden at the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s.[1]

Personal life[]

Besides being a sportsman, Gillström worked as a mechanical engineer for ASEA in both Stockholm and Västerås.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Det här var Sture "Stöttan" Gillström" (PDF) (in Swedish). Hammarby Fotboll. 2000. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Sture Gillström - Hammarbyaren som blev svensk mästare i ishockey" (in Swedish). AIK. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  3. ^ a b "1926" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Sture Gillström - Hammarbyaren som blev svensk mästare i ishockey" (PDF) (in Swedish). Swedish Ice Hockey Association. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Sture Gillström" (in Swedish). Eliteprospects. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  6. ^ "1932" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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