Anette Börjesson

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title: "Anette Börjesson" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["swedish-female-badminton-players", "1954-births", "living-people", "sweden-women's-international-footballers", "swedish-women's-footballers", "jitex-bk-players", "women's-association-football-defenders", "uefa-women's-championship–winning-players", "20th-century-swedish-sportswomen"] description: "Swedish footballer and badminton player" topic_path: "geography/sweden" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anette_Börjesson" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Swedish footballer and badminton player ::

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Field	Value
name	Anette Börjesson
fullname	Lilian Anette Börjesson
birth_date
birth_place	Sweden
position	Sweeper
youthclubs1	Tuve IF
clubs1	Jitex BK
years1	1978–91
caps1	181
goals1	52
clubs2	GAIS
years2	1985–87
caps2	52
goals2	13
totalcaps	233
totalgoals	65
nationalteam1	Sweden
nationalyears1	1975–87
nationalcaps1	70
nationalgoals1	12
club-update	17:50, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
nationalteam-update	17:50, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
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| name = Anette Börjesson | image = | fullname = Lilian Anette Börjesson | birth_date = | birth_place = Sweden | height = | position = Sweeper | currentclub = | youthclubs1 = Tuve IF | youthyears1 = | clubs1 = Jitex BK | years1 = 1978–91 | caps1 = 181 | goals1 = 52 | clubs2 = GAIS | years2 = 1985–87 | caps2 = 52 | goals2 = 13 | totalcaps = 233 | totalgoals = 65 | nationalteam1 = Sweden | nationalyears1 = 1975–87 | nationalcaps1 = 70 | nationalgoals1 = 12 | medaltemplates = | club-update = 17:50, 18 November 2009 (UTC) | nationalteam-update = 17:50, 18 November 2009 (UTC) Lilian Anette Börjesson (born 11 November 1954) is a retired female badminton player and footballer from Sweden.

Badminton

Börjesson is a five time women's singles champion at the Swedish National Badminton Championships and was a silver medalist at the 1980 European Badminton Championships, also in singles, as well as in mixed doubles.

European Championships

Women's singles ::data[format=table]

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
1978	Preston, England	DEN Lene Køppen	0–11, 2–11	[[File:Med 3.png
1980	Groningen, Netherlands	SUI Liselotte Blumer	4–11, 6–11	[[File:Med 2.png
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Mixed doubles ::data[format=table]

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
1980	Groningen, Netherlands	SWE Lars Wengberg	ENG Mike Tredgett
ENG Nora Perry	0–15, 6–15	[[File:Med 2.png	Silver]] Silver
1982	Böblingen, West Germany	SWE Lars Wengberg	ENG Mike Tredgett
ENG Nora Perry	8–15, 5–15	[[File:Med 3.png	Bronze]] Bronze
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Football

She captained Sweden to their win in the 1984 European Competition for Women's Football. In the final against England, Börjesson struck the first penalty in Sweden's shootout victory. She won a total of 70 caps between 1975 and 1987, scoring 12 goals. In 1985 she scored a hat-trick of penalty kicks against France.

Börjesson won the Årets Fotbollstjej Award, the forerunner of the Diamantbollen, in 1982.

After her retirement from playing, Börjesson founded a magazine dedicated to women's football, called nya mål.

Börjesson can be seen in the Sveriges Television documentary television series The Other Sport from 2013.

References

• European results

References

1. (5 July 2022). "Anette Börjesson on her rise to elite level of two sports". The Telegraph.
2. Andreas Nilsson. (2009-08-27). "EM för damer 1984". SvenskFotboll.se.
3. "Fakta och meriter för medlemmarna i SFS Hall of Fame". SFS.
4. Heidi Silvander. (2009-09-03). "Straffdrama när Sverige vann klassiskt guld". Sydsvenskan.
5. (21 July 2012). "Straffdrama när Sverige vann klassiskt guld". Damfotboll.com.

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