Leif Carlsen (4 December 1943 – 14 September 2018) was Danish footballer who played as a left winger for Boldklubben Frem, Hvidovre IF, Swiss club FC Baden and Swedish clubs Landskrona BoIS and IS Halmia.[1]

Leif Carlsen
Personal information
Date of birth (1943-12-04)4 December 1943
Date of death 14 September 2018(2018-09-14) (aged 74)
Position(s) Left winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1962–1966 Frem
1967–1968 Hvidovre IF
1968–1969 FC Baden
1970 Landskrona BoIS
1971 IS Halmia
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

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Carlsen played for the Danish football club Boldklubben Frem in the Danish Superliga from 1964 to 1966.[2][3]

During the 1967 and 1968 seasons, he represented Hvidovre IF, where he scored six goals.[4][5] One of them was in the Danish Cup final, where Carlsen scored the second goal in a 2–0 victory against Esbjerg fB.

In 1970 he transferred to the Swedish team Landskrona BoIS. In August 1970, Leif Carlsen famously scored the only goal in the league's division promotion qualifiers. After further success, the team was promoted to the Swedish league Allsvenskan. At the time, however, non-Swedish citizens were not allowed to play in the top Swedish league and Leif Carlsen could no longer play with Landskrona BoIS in 1971.[6]

Carlsen was born in 1943 in Denmark, and died in 2018.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Leif Carlsen". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Samlemapper af af Dansk Famillieblad i 1964". www.fodboldhistorik.dk. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  3. ^ Mertins, Poul, ed. (1965). "Boldklubben Frem Medlemsblade" [Boldklubben Frem Member Magazine] (PDF) (in Danish). p. 4. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Spillerstatistik - HIF Fodbold". www.hif.dk. Archived from the original on 31 May 2011.
  5. ^ "Leif Carlsen". hvidovrefanklub.dk (in Danish). Archived from the original on 10 August 2014.
  6. ^ "Annars började seriespelet trevande för stans stolthet. HIF, som trillat ur allsvenskan två år tidigare och missat kvalet 1969, var favoriter till en ny serieseger. Bois fick emellertid stabilitet i spelet och inför drygt 15 000 åskådare en härlig augustikväll 1970 besegrades HIF med 1-0 genom mål av Leif Carlsen och vägen till kvalspel låg öppen." "Landskrona 1970". Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  7. ^ "En tanke till de tidigare spelare som avlidit under 2018". Landskrona BoIS (in Swedish). 30 December 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2020.