Olle Nyström

Olle Nyström (18 July 1928 – 18 July 2002) was a Swedish football player and manager, best known for representing Hammarby IF and later coaching the club for two years.

Club career AIK Nyström started to play football with local club Väsby IK, before joining AIK in Allsvenskan before the start of the 1947–48 season. He would, however, have a hard time breaking into the side, and only made four league appearances in his two seasons with the club, leaving in 1949. He soon established himself as a starting centre-back for Hammarby, becoming known for his heading skills and tackling ability. He won one cap for the Swedish national B team on 19 September 1954, in a 0–2 home loss against Norway.

Nyström went on to play five full seasons with Hammarby in Allsvenskan, making 171 appearances for the club in total, before retiring at the end of 1959, aged 31. He failed to score a single competitive goal throughout his senior career.

Managerial career Nyström was the manager of Hammarby in 1973 and 1974, finishing 8th and 9th in the Allsvenskan table in his two seasons in charge.

Personal life Nyström worked full-time as a policeman throughout his whole playing career.

He is credited with convincing Kenneth Ohlsson, who later would make the most appearances in the club's history with a total of 396 matches, to join Hammarby as a youngster in the late 1950s, since they were neighbours in the same Stockholm suburb of Bagarmossen.