Prawitz Öberg

Prawitz Öberg
	Öberg (right) receiving an award
Personal information
Full name	Hartwig Edmund Prawitz Öberg
Date of birth	16 November 1930
Place of birth	Gislöv, Sweden
Date of death	4 November 1995 (aged 64)
Place of death	Malmö, Sweden
Position	Defender
Youth career
1940–1944	Gislövs IF
1945–1948	Trelleborgs FF
Senior career*
Years	Team
1949–1950	Gislövs IF
1951–1952	IFK Trelleborg
1952–1965	Malmö FF
1966	Gunnarstorps IF
International career
1957–1964	Sweden
Managerial career
1966–1967	Gunnarstorps IF
1968–1969	Lunds BK
1970–1971	Gunnarstorps IF
1972	Anderslövs BoIK
1976–1978	Trelleborgs FF
	Malmö BI
	Limhamns IF
Medal record
Men's Football
Representing Sweden
FIFA World Cup
	* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hartwig Edmund Prawitz Öberg (16 November 1930 – 4 November 1995) was a Swedish footballer, who was named Swedish Player of the Year in 1962. He was a very flexible player position-wise, and during his career he played as a defender, midfielder and forward.

Club career

Öberg began his career with Gislövs IF, from the small town that he grew up in. He later joined the youth ranks of Trelleborgs FF, but after the club neglected to promote him to the senior team he chose to return to Gislövs IF. Following his stint with Gislöv, he signed for IFK Trelleborg, crosstown rivals of Trelleborgs FF.^[1] During his youth he was also a bantamweight boxer.

In 1952 Öberg signed for Malmö FF. According to Öberg's brother Wincent, Malmö FF chairman Eric Persson visited the family in their home and offered Öberg a new bicycle, 5 000 SEK, and a league win bonus. In his first season the club won the league, and Öberg went on to play more than 500 games in total for Malmö FF, also scoring more than 100 goals despite primarily playing as a left-back or midfielder. In 1962 he won the Guldbollen award as the player of the year in Sweden. Öberg finally won another Allsvenskan championship in 1965, after which he decided to wind down his playing career with newcomers Gunnarstorps IF in the second tier.^[2]

International career

Öberg received twenty-six caps and five goals for the Sweden national team.^[3] He was a part of the Sweden squad that finished as runners-up in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He played 0 games however, and acted as a back-up to Sven Axbom.^[2]

Managerial career

As the player-manager of newly promoted second tier side Gunnarstorps IF, the club nearly won immediate promotion to Allsvenskan, losing out in the promotion qualifiers. He later went on to coach many southwestern Scanian teams such as Lunds BK, Anderslövs BoIK, Malmö BI, Limhamns IF and Trelleborgs FF.^[2]^[1]

Öberg died in Malmö on 4 November 1995 at the age of 64.^[4]

Honours

Player

Sweden

FIFA World Cup: runner-up 1958

Malmö FF

Allsvenskan: 1952–53, 1965
Svenska Cupen: 1953,

Individual

Guldbollen: 1962

Manager

Gunnarstorps IF

Division 2 Södra Götaland

References

1 2 Bryggare, Lasse (15 December 2015). "TFF-are i landslaget" [TFF players in the national team]. Trelleborgs Allehanda (in Swedish). Retrieved 20 April 2026.
1 2 3 Törner, Ole (5 December 2022). "MFF-profiler ni inte tänker på så ofta: Lucka 5" [MFF profiles you don't think about very often: Box 5]. Gasetten (in Swedish). Retrieved 20 April 2026.
↑ Sveriges landslagsmän 1908-2012, (Swedish)
↑ "Prawitz Öberg har avlidit" [Prawitz Öberg has passed away]. Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 9 November 1995. Retrieved 20 April 2026.