Klas Ingesson (20 August 1968 – 29 October 2014) was a Swedish footballer and manager of IF Elfsborg. As a member of the national team he played in 57 games, including 1990 FIFA World Cup and 1994 FIFA World Cup, as well as the 1992 European Championship.

Playing career

He played for IFK Gothenburg in Sweden, Mechelen in Belgium, PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Sheffield Wednesday in England, Bari, Bologna and Lecce in Italy and Marseille in France.

At Sheffield Wednesday he encountered players "who went straight to the pub after training but still able to run like wild animals come Saturday"

Coaching career

On 30 September 2013 Ingesson was appointed manager of IF Elfsborg.

Personal life

On 14 May 2009 Ingesson announced that he had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma. The treatment was at the start said to be going "in the right direction". Ingesson fully recovered since then and, on December 2010, made a football comeback by accepting an offer to guide the IF Elfsborg Under-21 youth team. On 8 January 2013, Ingesson revealed that the myeloma had returned, and that he would have a stem cell transplant, as the two previous autologous (i.e. of his own stem cells) had been unsuccessful.

On 29 October 2014, Ingesson died of the effects of multiple myeloma.