Gunnar Nordahl

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Gunnar Nordahl (October 19, 1921 – September 15, 1995), played for Degerfors IF 1940-44, then IFK Norrköping, where he won four Swedish league titles. Best known for his time in AC Milan 1949-1956.

Probably the greatest player of his generation and Sweden’s first ever professional footballer.

Nordahl transferred to AC Milan on January 22, 1949. Later, he would team up with his national team strike partners, Gunnar Gren and Nils Liedholm to form the renowned Gre-No-Li trio. In his eight seasons with AC Milan, he was Serie A‘s top-scorer five times. Nordahl is AC Milan's all-time top-scorer, with 210 league goals. He is still the second-highest Serie A goalscorer of all time, with 225 goals in 291 matches. Only Silvio Piola has scored more goals in that division. That makes Nordahl the top goalscorer among non-Italian players, and he is also the most efficient goalscorer goals in Serie A ever with 0,77 goals/match. Only players who has scored more than one hundred goals are counted in this record, where for example Piola scored his 247 goals in 537 games, i.e. 0,46 goals/match.