Education
Umeå University.
Umeå University.
She played for the club side Umeå IK and for the Swedish national football team She is not related to Swedish male football star Fredrik Ljungberg. Ljungberg is a fairly common Swedish surname formed by the words ljung (English: calluna) and berg (English: mountain).
Ljungberg can be seen in the Sveriges Television documentary television series The Other Sport from 2013.
Hanna Ljungberg was one of several professional players in the Swedish women"s league, Damallsvenskan. She also scored a record setting number of goals that season with 39 goals (roughly 178 goals per game).
Ljungberg made altogether 227 league appearances for Umeå IK and scored 196 goals. As a world class forward, Ljungberg was instrumental in the Swedish side that were runners up in the Fédération internationale de football association Women"s World Cup 2003 held in the United States, scoring three goals and assisting another.
Until October 2014 when she was surpassed by Lotta Schelin, Ljungberg was the goal leader of the Swedish national team with 72 goals.
During the Union of European Football Associations Women"s Cup 2002-2003, Ljungberg was the top goalscorer in the tournament with 10 goals. Italian men"s football club Perugia contacted Ljungberg to hire her for their Serie A roster, but the deal aborted. She debuted as a goalkeeper on May 17, 2007 for Umeå IK when they played against AIK in the Swedish Cup because of Carola Söberg"s injury at the 70th minute.
She ended the game with a clean sheet.
Her fame in Sweden has led to stamps commemorating her and several other Swedish football players for the Swedish Football Association"s 100th year anniversary. In August 2009 Ljungberg announced her retirement from football after a knee injury in a league match on July 5.
The right anterior cruciate ligament, previously reconstructed in 2004, was again partly torn and she decided with her doctors that to continue to play presented too high a risk of permanent disability. Foreign two years Ljungberg helped Joakim Blomqvist, head coach of Umeå IK, and Maria Bergkvist assistant coach, in the coaching of her old team
At the same time she was studying at Umeå University to become a physiotherapist and graduated in June 2012.
She then began a new career as a personal trainer. Individual Diamond Ball (1): (39 goals) Club National Team.