Jan Jansson Football player

Jan Jansson (born 26 January 1968) is a former Sweden international footballer who scored 60 goals in 310 league appearances in a 16-year career in Sweden and England.He began his senior career with Kalmar, helping them to a second place finish in the Allsvenskan in 1985. Kalmar suffered a decline, and three years later he signed with Östers, and helped the club to the Division 1 Södra title in 1989 and up to second in the Allsvenskan in 1992. He then switched to Norrköping the next year, who themselves finished second in the league. He was loaned out to English club Port Vale in November 1996, before making a £200,000 move the following summer. He helped the "Valiants" to remain in the First Division, before returning to Norrköping in February 1999. He retired in 2001.