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{{Short description|Swedish footballer and manager}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Tom Prahl
| image =
| fullname = Tom Göran Roland Prahl
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|1|5|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Smedstorp]], Sweden
| height = 1.79 m<ref>{{Worldfootball.net|tom-prahl}}</ref>
| position =
| currentclub =
| youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 =
| years1 = 1965–1968 | clubs1 = [[Onslunda IF]]  | caps1 = | goals1 =
| years2 = 1968–1971 | clubs2 = [[Tomelilla IF]] | caps2 = | goals2 =
| manageryears1  = 1972–1975 | managerclubs1  = [[Onslunda IF]] 
| manageryears2  = 1976      | managerclubs2  = [[IFK Trelleborg]] 
| manageryears3  = 1977–1978 | managerclubs3  = [[Onslunda IF]] 
| manageryears4  = 1979–1981 | managerclubs4  = [[IFK Kristianstad]] 
| manageryears5  = 1982–1989 | managerclubs5  = [[Kirsebergs IF]] 
| manageryears6  = 1990–1995 | managerclubs6  = [[Trelleborgs FF]] 
| manageryears7  = 1996–2001 | managerclubs7  = [[Halmstads BK]] 
| manageryears8  = 2002–2005 | managerclubs8  = [[Malmö FF]] 
| manageryears9  = 2006      | managerclubs9  = [[Viking FK]] 
| manageryears10 = 2007–2011 | managerclubs10 = [[Trelleborgs FF]]
}}
'''Tom Göran Roland Prahl''' (born 5 January 1949 in [[Smedstorp]]) is a Swedish former [[association football|football]] player and manager.

==Coaching career==
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]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.halmstadsbk.se/info_engelska.asp |title=Halmstads Bollklubb - Klubbinformation |accessdate=10 January 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060218155218/http://www.halmstadsbk.se/info_engelska.asp |archivedate=18 February 2006 }}</ref> On 1 January 2006, he took over [[Viking F.K.|Viking]] from [[Roy Hodgson]]. 
<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20051026045701/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UEFACup/news/Kind=1/newsId=357629.html UEFA] </ref> 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==
'''Halmstads BK'''
*[[Allsvenskan]]: [[1997 Allsvenskan|1997]], [[2000 Allsvenskan|2000]]

'''Malmö FF'''
*[[Allsvenskan]]: [[2004 Allsvenskan|2004]]

==References==
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