Erik Lund (footballer)

Erik Lund
	Lund in 2009
Personal information
Full name	Erik Olof Gustav Lund
Date of birth	6 November 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth	Ljungskile, Sweden
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Right back
Team information
Current team	Ljungskile SK (manager)
Youth career
0000–2004	Ljungskile SK
2005–2008	Aston Villa
Senior career*
Years	Team
2003–2005	Ljungskile SK
2008–2013	IFK Göteborg
2013	→ Örebro SK (loan)
2014–2017	Varbergs BoIS
2018–2020	Ljungskile SK
Total
International career
2008–2010	Sweden U21
2010	Sweden
Managerial career
2018	Ljungskile SK (caretaker)
2018–2020	Ljungskile SK (assistant)
2021–	Ljungskile SK
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Erik Lund (born 6 November 1988) is a Swedish football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Ljungskile SK. He played as right back and spent most of his career at Ljungskile SK and IFK Göteborg. Lund also spent three years at the Aston Villa Academy and played twice for the Sweden national team in 2010.

Career

Lund began his career at Ljungskile SK, playing in the first team in both Swedish Division 2 and the Superettan, making his debut at 15. He went on to sign for Aston Villa's youth team on 1 July 2005 at the age of 16. After a season in the academy side he appeared in 10 games for Villa's reserves in the 2006–07 season, and scored a rare goal in the opening match of the HKFC International Soccer Sevens against Hong Kong F.C. in a 1–0 victory. On 3 June 2007 he signed a new 2-year professional contract with Villa. In August 2007, Lund made his debut for the first team, coming on as a substitute for Craig Gardner in the pre-season friendly against Walsall.

On 1 July 2008, Lund agreed to a three-and-a-half-year contract with IFK Göteborg. He made his debut for IFK in a Svenska Cupen win over GIF Sundsvall on 10 July. On 23 July he made his UEFA Champions League debut in IFK's 4–0 win over Murata. Lund moved to Varbergs BoIS following the 2013 season, after a loan spell at Örebro SK.

Career statistics

Club

As of 19 June 2013^[1]

Club	Season	League		Cup		Continental		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Ljungskile SK	2004	14	2	—		—		14	2
	2005	6	0	—		—		6	0
	Total	20	2	0	0	0	0	20	2
Aston Villa	2005–06	0	0	0	0	—		0	0
	2006–07	0	0	0	0	—		0	0
	2007–08	0	0	0	0	—		0	0
	Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
IFK Göteborg	2008	11	0	2	0	1	0	14	0
	2009	24	1	5	1	2	0	31	2
	2010	22	0	1	0	2	0	25	0
	2011	19	0	3	0	—		22	0
	2012	1	0	0	0	—		1	0
Örebro SK	2013	6	0	—		—		6	0
Örebro SK	Total	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
IFK Göteborg	2013	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2014	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	77	1	11	1	5	0	93	2
Career total		103	3	11	1	5	0	119	4