Mattias Moström

Mattias Kent Moström (born 25 February 1983) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays for Norwegian Eliteserien club Molde, as a midfielder. He started his career with AIK, before he made his first-team debut with FC Café Opera. He later returned to AIK before he moved to his current club Molde in 2007.

Mattias Moström
Personal information
Full name Mattias Kent Moström
Date of birth (1983-02-25) 25 February 1983
Place of birth Stockholm, Sweden
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)
Playing position(s) Right Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Molde
Number 9
Youth career
1990–2000 AIK
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2003 FC Café Opera 47 (4)
2004–2006 AIK 65 (5)
2007– Molde 284 (27)
National team‡
2000 Sweden U17 11 (0)
2004 Sweden U21 4 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19 July 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20 August 2013

Career

Early career

Moström was born in Stockholm[1] and started to play football at AIK at the age of six and was selected for the club's development squad during his youth. He transferred to FC Café Opera ahead of the 2001 season, where he made his senior debut. He played three seasons for the club.

AIK

In 2004, Moström returned to his old club AIK, where he signed a contract till the end of the 2007 season.[2]

Moström made his debut in Allsvenskan when he came on as a substitute in the opening match of the 2004 season against Sundsvall. He started his first match for AIK against Halmstad in the fifth round, and soon became a regular in AIK's starting line-up. Moström scored his first goal in Allsvenskan when he scored the match-winning goal against Landskrona on 23 May 2004.[3]

After the 2006 season, AIK's new head coach Rikard Norling told Moström that he wasn't a part of his future plans and that he was free to find himself a new club. Moström who had played for AIK for a total of 14 seasons, then stated that he wanted to move abroad so that he did not have to meet AIK in a match.[4]

Molde

Mattias Moström signed a three-year contract with the Norwegian First Division club Molde in January 2007, despite being wanted by the Tippeligaen club Aalesund.[5] He made his Molde debut on 9 April 2007 in the 2–3 win on away ground against Sogndal.[6]

Moström signed a pre-contract with the Swedish club Kalmar FF in July 2011, and was going to join the club when his contract with Molde expired after the 2011 season.[7] Moström did however change his mind, and asked Kalmar FF if they could destroy the contract, and instead he signed a new contract with Molde lasting till the end of the 2014 season.[8] He made 27 appearances and scored three goals in the 2011 Tippeligaen season where Molde won the first top-flight title in club history. In 2012, after six seasons with Molde, Moström became the foreign player with the most matches for Molde.[9] Moström played 28 games and scored five goals in the 2012 league season, where Molde succeeded in defending the league title. Molde won the Norwegian Cup in 2013, where Moström contributed in all games from the third round to the final. In July 2014, Moström and Molde agreed on a two-year contract extension that kept him at the club till the end of the 2016 season.[10] In August 2016, his contract with Molde was extended to last till the end of the 2018 season.[11] On 5 May 2019, Moström got his 250th appearance in Eliteserien, in the club's 2–1 win away against Haugesund.[6] As of 1 December 2019, Moström has made 357 appearances for Molde, the fifth-highest number of appearances by any player for the club. Alongside Trond Strande and Vegard Forren, he is the only player to have appearances for Molde in 12 consecutive Eliteserien seasons.

Personal life

Moström's younger half-brother, Marcus West, is also a professional footballer. Ahead of the 2014 season, the two played against each other for the first time when Molde met AIK in a pre-season friendly match.[9]

Career statistics
As of 19 July 2020[1]
Club Season Division League Cup Europe Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
AIK 2004 Allsvenskan 19310—203
2005 Superettan 27210—282
2006 Allsvenskan 19010—200
Total 65530——685
Molde 2007 1. divisjon 17110—171
2008 Eliteserien 18120—202
2009 26262—324
2010 2832041344
2011 27353—316
2012 28540111435
2013 2635040353
2014 2825120353
2015 19210111313
2016 2010020221
2017 6000—60
2018 1821030222
2019 2023040272
2020 30000030
Total 2842735641336036
Career total 3493238641342841

Honours
Molde

References
  1. "Mattias Moström". altomfotball.no (in Norwegian). TV 2. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  2. Bennani, Youssef (28 November 2003). "AIK hämtar hem Mattias Moström". Svenska Fans (in Swedish). Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  3. Wahlund, Lasse (24 May 2004). "Mattias Moström fick äntligen jubla". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  4. Karlsson, Emil (19 December 2006). "AIK ger Moström sparken". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  5. "Mattias Moström klar för Molde". Expressen (in Swedish). 31 January 2007. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  6. "Mattias Moström". altomfotball.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  7. Holden, Lillian (26 July 2011). "Molde-Moström solgt til svensk klubb: - Utrolig moro!". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  8. Brunvoll, Øyvind (12 June 2013). "Moström avviser ryktene om AIK". Romsdals Budstikke (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  9. "Mathias møter broren". Molde FK (in Norwegian). 28 January 2014. Archived from the original on 30 January 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  10. "Moström blir i Molde". Fædrelandsvennen (in Norwegian). 4 July 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  11. Brøste, Martin (26 August 2016). "Molde-veteranen: - Det har vært en rar sesong". www.framtidinord.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 24 July 2019.

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