Swedish football manager Thomas Askebrand Personal information Full name| Thomas Askebrand Date of birth| (1969-01-23) 23 January 1969 (age 53) Place of birth| Åsa, Sweden Club information Current team | Västerås SK Teams managed Years| Team| | 1995–1998| Hanhals BK 1999–2001| Bua IF 2002–2004| Lerkils IF 2005| Västra Frölunda (assistant) 2006–2008| Lerkils IF 2008–2012| Falkenbergs FF 2013–2014| GAIS 2015–2017| Östers IF 2018–2019| Örgryte IS 2019–| Västerås SK Thomas Askebrand, born Johansson 23 January 1969 in Åsa,[1] is a Swedish football manager.[2] He is the manager of Västerås SK. ## Management career[edit] Thomas started out his managing career for small local clubs in Hanhals, Bua and Lerkil. After one year in the Gothenburg club Västra Frölunda, as an assistant coach, he joined Superettan side Falkenberg. After five good seasons, Thomas left for the bigger club GAIS in January 2013. After a defeat against Östersund at home in the 9th game of the 2014-season, Gais officially sacked Askebrand due to bad results. The supporters and the board didn't think 8 points and a 13th place was good enough. On December 10, 2014, Östers IF announced Thomas Askebrand as their new head coach for two years. Östers played in Allsvenskan in 2013 but got relegated from both Allsvenskan and later Superettan the following year. In November 2017, it was confirmed that Askebrand would take charge of Örgryte IS from the 2018 season.[3] He left the club at the end of the 2019 season and was appointed head coach of Västerås SK.[4] ## References[edit] 1. ^ "Thomas Askebrand". SvenskaFans.com. Retrieved 20 February 2013. 2. ^ "Thomas Askebrand". Fotbollstransfers.com. Retrieved 27 February 2014. 3. ^ Thomas Askebrand ny tränare i Örgryte IS‚ fotboll.ois.se, 13 November 2017 4. ^ Thomas Askebrand ny huvudtränare i Västerås SK fotboll: ”Föreningen vill framåt”, svt.se, 14 November 2019 * v * t * e Falkenbergs FF – managers * Claesson (1929–31) * H. Svensson (1932–33) * T. Svenson (1934–46) * Göransson (1947) * Antfors (1948–50) * Rydell (1951) * Lambertsson (1952) * T. Svenson (1953–54) * Rydberg & Löfgren (1955) * Rydberg (1956) * Vikdahl (1957–58) * Ludvigsson & Mårtensson (1959) * Pettersson (1960) * G. Svensson (1961–63) * Johansson (1964–65) * G. Svensson (1966–67) * Ambrosius (1968) * Jönsson (1969–70) * Bernhard & Jakobsson (1971–72) * Ambrosius (1973) * Nylander (1974–76) * J. A. 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