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{{Short description|Swedish footballer (born 1963)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}
{{Infobox football biography
|name = Mats Magnusson
|image = 
|fullname = Mats Tuve Magnusson
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|7|10|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Helsingborg]], Sweden
|height = 1.85 m
|position = [[Forward (association football)#Striker|Striker]]
|youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = 
|years1 = 1981–1985 | clubs1 = [[Malmö FF]] | caps1 = 38 | goals1 = 20
|years2 = 1985–1986 | clubs2 = [[Servette FC|Servette]] | caps2 = 22 | goals2 = 14
|years3 = 1986–1987 | clubs3 = [[Malmö FF]] | caps3 = 25 | goals3 = 14
|years4 = 1987–1992 | clubs4 = [[S.L. Benfica|Benfica]] | caps4 = 122 | goals4 = 65
|years5 = 1992–1994 | clubs5 = [[Helsingborgs IF|Helsingborg]] | caps5 = 47 | goals5 = 27
|totalcaps = 254 |totalgoals = 140
|nationalyears1 = 1979 | nationalteam1 = [[Sweden men's national under-17 football team|Sweden U17]] | nationalcaps1 = 4 | nationalgoals1 = 3
|nationalyears2 = 1979–1981 | nationalteam2 = [[Sweden men's national under-19 football team|Sweden U19]] | nationalcaps2 = 10 | nationalgoals2 = 0
|nationalyears3 = 1984–1990 | nationalteam3 = [[Sweden national under-21 football team|Sweden U21]] | nationalcaps3 = 7 | nationalgoals3 = 1
|nationalyears4 = 1984–1990 | nationalteam4 = [[Sweden men's national football team|Sweden]] | nationalcaps4 = 30 | nationalgoals4 = 9
}}
'''Mats Tuve Magnusson''' (born 10 July 1963) is a Swedish former professional [[Association football|footballer]] who played as a [[Forward (association football)#Striker|striker]]. Starting off his career with [[Malmö FF]], he is best remembered for his time with [[S.L. Benfica|Benfica]] with which he won two league titles, reached two [[European Cup]] finals, and was the [[1989–90 Primeira Liga]] [[Bola de Prata (Portugal)|top scorer]]. A full international between 1984 and 1990, he won 30 [[Cap (sport)|caps]] for the [[Sweden men's national football team|Sweden national team]] and represented his country at the [[1990 FIFA World Cup]].

==Club career==
Magnusson was born in [[Helsingborg]]. During his career he played for [[Malmö FF]] (two spells), [[Servette FC]], [[S.L. Benfica]] and [[Helsingborgs IF]]. Upon his return home he helped the latter side, featuring a young [[Henrik Larsson]], reach the [[Allsvenskan]].

At the [[Lisbon]] club, where he arrived in 1987 as a replacement for fellow [[Scandinavia]]n, [[Michael Manniche]], Magnusson developed as a top flight goalscorer, winning two [[Primeira Liga]] championships and appearing at the [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] finals in [[1987–88 European Cup#Final|1988]] (lost to [[PSV Eindhoven]] in a [[Penalty shoot-out (association football)|penalty shoot-out]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/ec/ec198788.html|title=European Competitions 1987–88|publisher=[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]|access-date=31 March 2017}}</ref> and [[1989–90 European Cup#Final|1990]] (losing to [[A.C. Milan]]).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rsssf.org/ec/ec198990.html|title=Champions' Cup 1989–90|publisher=[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]|access-date=4 September 2015}}</ref> In [[1989–90 Primeira Liga|1989–90]], even though they lost to [[FC Porto]] in the league, he finished as top scorer of the competition with 33 goals in 32 games;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/porttops.html|title=Portugal – List of Topscorers|publisher=[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]|access-date=5 April 2017}}</ref> during his time with Benfica he shared team with countrymen [[Jonas Thern]] (1989–92), [[Stefan Schwarz]] (1990–94) – also his teammates at Malmö – and coach [[Sven-Göran Eriksson]] (1989–92).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dn.pt/desporto/benfica/interior/suecos-so-vingaram-no-benfica-1180725.html|title=Suecos só vingaram no Benfica|trans-title=Swedes only made it big in Benfica|newspaper=[[Diário de Notícias]]|language=pt|date=25 March 2009|access-date=5 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ionline.pt/artigos/desporto/magnusson-estadio-da-luz-assustava-qualquer-mim |title=Magnusson: "O Estádio da Luz assustava qualquer um. Até a mim" |trans-title=Magnusson: "The Estádio da Luz frightened anyone. Even me" |newspaper=[[i (British newspaper)|i]] |last1=Tovar |first1=Rui Miguel |language=pt |date=2 January 2015 |access-date=2 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109230646/http://www.ionline.pt/artigos/desporto/magnusson-estadio-da-luz-assustava-qualquer-mim |archive-date=9 January 2015 }}</ref> His total of 87 goals in all official competitions made him Benfica's top foreign goalscorer for more than twenty years. He was later surpassed by Paraguayan international [[Óscar Cardozo]] (172 goals) and Brazilian international [[Jonas (footballer, born 1984)|Jonas]] (137 goals).

==International career==
Magnusson earned 30 [[Cap (sport)|caps]] for the [[Sweden men's national football team|Sweden national team]], and played in the [[1990 FIFA World Cup]] finals in Italy where he suffered an injury that made him miss nearly one year of football. His debut came on 22 August 1984, as he started in a 1–1 [[Exhibition game|friendly]] draw to [[Mexico national football team|Mexico]] played in [[Malmö]].

== Career statistics ==

=== International ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+Appearances and goals by national team and year<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mats Magnusson – Spelarstatistik – Svensk fotboll|url=https://www.svenskfotboll.se/spelarfakta/mats-magnusson/c62cb882-8dea-4cc6-948a-d46915ba194d/|access-date=2021-05-06|publisher=Swedish Football Association.|language=sv}}</ref>
!National team
!Year
!Apps
!Goals
|-
| rowspan="7" |[[Sweden men's national football team|Sweden]]
|1984
|1
|0
|-
|1985
|4
|2
|-
|1986
|4
|1
|-
|1987
|6
|3
|-
|1988
|1
|1
|-
|1989
|9
|1
|-
|1990
|5
|1
|-
! colspan="2" |Total
!30
!9
|}
'''International goals'''
:''Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Magnusson goal.''
{| class="wikitable"
! # !! Date !! Venue !! Opponent !! Score !! Result !! Competition
|-
| 1. || 11 September 1985 || [[Idrætsparken]], [[Copenhagen]], Denmark || {{fb|DEN}} || 3–0 || 3–0 || [[Exhibition game|Friendly]]
|-
| 2. || 25 September 1985 || [[Råsunda Stadium|Råsunda]], [[Solna Municipality|Solna]], Sweden || {{fb|FRG}} || 2–2 || 2–2 || [[1986 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2|1986 FIFA World Cup qualification]]
|-
| 3. || 16 November 1986 || [[Ta' Qali National Stadium|Ta' Qali]], [[Attard]], Malta || {{fb|MLT}} || 2–0 || 5–0 || [[UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying Group 2|UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying]]
|-
| 4. || rowspan="2" | 18 April 1987 || rowspan="2" | [[Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena|Dinamo Stadium]], [[Tbilisi]], Soviet Union || rowspan="2" | {{fb|URS}} || 2–0 || rowspan="2" | 3–1 || rowspan="2" | Friendly
|-
| 5. || 3–1
|-
| 6. || 26 August 1987 || Råsunda, Solna, Sweden || {{fb|DEN}} || 1–0 || 1–0 || Friendly
|-
| 7. || 1 June 1988 || [[Estadio El Helmántico|El Helmántico]], [[Salamanca]], Spain || {{fb|ESP}} || 3–1 || 3–1 || Friendly
|-
| 8. || 8 October 1989 || Råsunda, Solna, Sweden || {{fb|ALB}} || 1–1 || 3–1 || Friendly
|-
| 9. || 27 May 1990 || Råsunda, Solna, Sweden || {{fb|FIN}} || 1–0 || 6–0 || Friendly
|}

==Honours==
'''Benfica'''
*[[Primeira Liga]]:<ref name="bi">{{cite magazine|date=May 2015|title=Bicampeões para a história|trans-title=Back-to-back champions for the ages|language=pt|magazine=[[Visão]]|location=Portugal|publisher=[[Impresa]] Publishing|page=57|issn=0872-3540}}</ref> [[1988–89 Primeira Liga|1988–89]], [[1990–91 Primeira Liga|1990–91]]
*[[Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira]]:<ref name="bi"/> [[1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira|1989]]
*[[Taça de Portugal]] Runner-up: [[1988–89 Taça de Portugal|1988–89]]
*[[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] Runner-up: [[1987–88 European Cup|1987–88]], [[1989–90 European Cup|1989–90]]

'''Malmö'''
*[[Allsvenskan]]: [[1985 Allsvenskan|1985]], [[1986 Allsvenskan|1986]], [[1987 Allsvenskan|1987]]
*[[Svenska Cupen]]: [[1983–84 Svenska Cupen|1983–84]], [[1985–86 Svenska Cupen|1985–86]]
'''Individual'''
*[[Primeira Liga]] [[Bola de Prata (Portugal)|top scorer]]: [[1989–90 Primeira Liga|1989–90]]

==References==
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