Ove Kindvall

Bengt Ove Kindvall (, 16 May 1943 – 5 August 2025) was a Swedish professional footballer who played as a striker. He started his career at IFK Norrköping, where he played until he joined Feyenoord in 1966 and became professional. The same year, he won the Guldbollen, as the best Swedish footballer of the year. He is regarded as one of Sweden's greatest ever players. A full international between 1965 and 1974, he won 43 caps and scored 16 goals for the Sweden national team. He represented his country at the 1970 and 1974 FIFA World Cups.

Club career With Feyenoord he won two national championships as well as the 1970 European Cup. In the final against Celtic he scored the winning goal in extra time. In his five seasons with the club, Kindvall scored 129 league goals in 144 games. He returned to Sweden and Norrköping 1971, where he played for three years, until ending his career in IFK Göteborg.

He was the first non-Dutchman to be named Eredivisie top scorer, doing so in 1968, 1969 and 1971. No other foreigner achieved this until Romário in 1989.

Kindvall earned the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1969. In that year, he was named as the fourth best player in Europe.

International career Kindvall played 43 games with the national team and scored 16 goals.

Kindvall died on 5 August 2025, at the age of 82.

Career statistics

International

Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Kindvall goal.

Honours IFK Norrköping Allsvenskan: 1962, 1963

Feyenoord

Intercontinental Cup: 1970 European Cup: 1969–70 Intertoto Cup: 1967, 1968 Eredivisie: 1968–69, 1970–71 KNVB Cup: 1968-69

Individual Guldbollen: 1966 Allsvenskan top scorer: 1966 Eredivisie top scorer: 1967–68, 1968–69, 1970–71 Ballon d'Or fourth place: 1969 (shared with Johan Cruyff) FUWO European Team of the Season: 1969