Tom Prahl Explained

Tom Prahl
Fullname:Tom Göran Roland Prahl
Birth Date:5 January 1949
Birth Place:Smedstorp, Sweden
Height:1.79 m
Years1:1965–1968
Years2:1968–1971
Manageryears1:1972–1975
Manageryears2:1976
Manageryears3:1977–1978
Manageryears4:1979–1981
Manageryears5:1982–1989
Manageryears6:1990–1995
Manageryears7:1996–2001
Manageryears8:2002–2005
Manageryears9:2006
Manageryears10:2007–2011
Managerclubs10:Trelleborgs FF

Tom Göran Roland Prahl (born 5 January 1949 in Smedstorp) is a Swedish former football player and manager.

Coaching career

From 1990 to the 2000s, Prahl was one of Sweden's most successful managers, winning three league titles. He debuted in 1992 in Allsvenskan with Trelleborgs FF. He won the league since then with both Malmö FF and Halmstads BK.[1] On 1 January 2006, he took over Viking from Roy Hodgson. [2] However, his spell with the Stavanger-based club proved unsuccessful, and he was fired in September 2006 on the back of seven losses in eight league matches, with the team on the bottom of the Norwegian Premier League table. Prahl returned to Trelleborg and managed the club until his retirement in 2011.

Honours as manager

Halmstads BK

1997, 2000

Malmö FF

2004

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Halmstads Bollklubb - Klubbinformation . 10 January 2006 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060218155218/http://www.halmstadsbk.se/info_engelska.asp . 18 February 2006 .
  2. http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UEFACup/news/Kind=1/newsId=357629.html