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

Tom Prahl
Personal information
Full name Tom Göran Roland Prahl
Date of birth (1949-01-05) 5 January 1949 (age 75)
Place of birth Smedstorp, Sweden
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1965–1968 Onslunda IF
1968–1971 Tomelilla IF
Managerial career
1972–1975 Onslunda IF
1976 IFK Trelleborg
1977–1978 Onslunda IF
1979–1981 IFK Kristianstad
1982–1989 Kirsebergs IF
1990–1995 Trelleborgs FF
1996–2001 Halmstads BK
2002–2005 Malmö FF
2006 Viking FK
2007–2011 Trelleborgs FF
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Coaching career

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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.[2] On 1 January 2006, he took over Viking from Roy Hodgson. [3] 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

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Halmstads BK

Malmö FF

References

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  1. ^ Tom Prahl at WorldFootball.net
  2. ^ "Halmstads Bollklubb - Klubbinformation". Archived from the original on 18 February 2006. Retrieved 10 January 2006.
  3. ^ http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UEFACup/news/Kind=1/newsId=357629.html [dead link]