Torbjörn Arvidsson

Torbjörn Arvidsson
Personal information
Full name	Torbjörn Arvidsson
Date of birth	May 6, 1968 (age 53)
Place of birth	Sweden
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Central Defender, Central Midfielder
Club information
Current team	Hajduk Split (Assistant)
Youth career
–1988	Kalmar FF
Senior career*
Years	Team
1989–2005	Halmstads BK
Teams managed
2006–2015	Halmstads BK (assistant)
2010–2015	Halmstads BK U-21
2016–2017	Varbergs BoIS (assistant)
2018	Kalmar FF U-17
2019	Kalmar FF (assistant)
2020–2021	Halmstads BK (assistant)
2021–	Hajduk Split (fitness coach)
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Torbjörn Arvidsson (born May 6, 1968) is a former Swedish football player, who played as a defender for Halmstads BK. He is currently the assistant manager of Hajduk Split.

Career[]

Starting his career in Kalmar FF he early moved to Halmstads BK in 1989, where he played until 2005. During this time he became the player with most games in Allsvenskan for Halmstad so far, 306 games and 543 games in total, he won Allsvenskan twice and Svenska Cupen once and 1998-1999 he was the team captain and also playing several time in European cups.

He made his debut for the club in 1989 in the serie debut against Örebro SK and his last match became in the cup against in 2005.

Coaching career[]

From 2010 until he left Halmstad BK at the end of 2015, beside his role as the assistant manager of the first team, Arvidsson was also responsible for the clubs U-21 squad.^[1] Arvidsson continued his coaching career at Varbergs BoIS. He signed as an assistant manager on 4 January 2016.^[2] He left the club at the end of 2017 to join Kalmar FF, which already was announced in November 2017.^[3] Arvidsson was going to take charge of the U-17 squad.

On 7 January 2019, Arvidsson was promoted to the technical staff of the first team at Kalmar FF, functioning as one of the assistant managers.^[4]