
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has appointed Kim Lars Björkegren as the new head coach of the Ghana women's national team best known as the Black Queens.
He replaces Nora Hauptle, whose contract with the GFA expired at the end of December 2024. Björkegren started out as a footballer and played for his community club in Ljungsbro, later featuring for Allsvenskan club Åtvidabergs FF (Swedish First Division club at the time) before injury halted his career at age 22.
With 18 years of coaching experience, Kim possesses a UEFA License A with significant experience and success coaching in Sweden and other countries. Björkegren's successes include winning the Cyprus top women's division with Apollon Ladies as well as the Damallsvenskan (Swedish women’s top league) with Linkopings FC. In the 2020-2021 season, he was awarded Coach of the Season in Cyprus.
Björkegren holds the joint record with the renowned Sven Goran Eriksson as being the second Swedish manager to win two domestic titles in two different countries. He previously worked with the Finland women’s national team as a scout and analyst.
He has also coached Beijing BG Phoenix in the Chinese Super League (placing third in both the Chinese Women's FA Cup and Super Cup in 2018) and has worked as technical director of Manila Digger FC of the Philippines. Most recently he was manager of Racing Louisville in the National Women’s Soccer League of the United States until departing in 2023.
With his coaching experience in women’s football, coupled with a background in education and sports psychology, Björkegren is viewed by the GFA as the ideal choice to take over the coaching reins of the Black Queens and lead them to greater heights.
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