Kjell Olofsson

Kjell Ove Olofsson ( born July 23, 1965 in Källö - Knippla ) is a former Swedish football player. The striker played his career in Sweden, Norway and Scotland.

Career

Olofsson comes from the youth of the Klippna IK. From 1984 he ran for the Gothenburg club IF Warta appear in adult area, in 1986, he moved within the city to Örgryte IS in the Allsvenskan. In 1989 he moved to Norway, where he joined the first division side Moss FK joined. Despite the decline of the club the following year, the club remained faithful. Although carried out under coach Per -Mathias Høgmo the end of 1996 to return to the Tippeligaen, he retired in October of the year to Dundee United on. There, at first team regular, he led the upstart with 13 goals this season on the third place of the Scottish Premier League club Celtic and behind the Glasgow Rangers and the semi-finals of the Scottish FA Cup. The following year he moved with the team that was dominated by a coach Tommy McLean with him and the Sweden Mikael Andersson, Göran Marklund, Magnus Sköldmark, the Dane Thomas Tengstedt, the Norwegian Erik Pedersen and Icelander Sigurdur Jónsson formed Scandinavian block, to the final of the Scottish League Cup, where they lost however with a 0-3 defeat against Celtic. After expiration of his contract in 1999, he returned to Moss FK before he left after Erstligaabstieg the end of 2002 his career end the evening with unterklassigen Norwegian football at SK Sprint -Jeløy and Tronvik FK.