lit a candle 1h agoNever followed Swedish hockey, but winning championships in two different sports the same year, 1955, is just absurd. Respect for that alone.
Their story
Hans Lennart Andersson-Tvilling, known throughout Swedish sport as Hasse Tvilling, was a Djurgården icon who won national titles in both ice hockey and football and brought Olympic and world championship medals home to Sweden. Born Hans Andersson in Stockholm on 15 July 1928, he grew up in Traneberg with his…
Hans Lennart Andersson-Tvilling, known throughout Swedish sport as Hasse Tvilling, was a Djurgården icon who won national titles in both ice hockey and football and brought Olympic and world championship medals home to Sweden. Born Hans Andersson in Stockholm on 15 July 1928, he grew up in Traneberg with his twin brother Stig. The brothers took the surname Tvilling because they were forever paired on the pitch and the rink, and together they became among the most talked about sporting siblings in the country.
On the ice Hasse was a skilful forward whose holding, cycling style of play with Stig became a trademark. He spent his elite hockey career with Djurgårdens IF from the late 1940s into the late 1950s, winning four Swedish championships (1950, 1954, 1955 and 1958). Internationally he earned dozens of caps for Tre Kronor, took Olympic bronze at Oslo in 1952, finished fourth at Cortina in 1956, and was a world champion in 1953 after earlier silver in 1951 and later bronze in 1954. He also collected multiple European championship medals. Olympedia credits him with 87 national team appearances. Sweden later awarded him the Stora Grabbars Märke in ice hockey.
Football ran in parallel. Hasse played more than 150 Allsvenskan matches for Djurgården and scored over forty league goals, with roughly three hundred senior appearances for the club across divisions. In 1955 he achieved the rare double of Swedish titles in football and ice hockey in the same calendar year, part of Djurgården's unique feat as the only club to win both crowns in the same year (also in 1959). Between 1951 and 1953 he won four caps for the Swedish football national team, becoming one of only five men to represent Sweden at senior level in both sports. Stig was another of those five.
After retiring as a player Hasse coached for many years with Tranebergs IF and remained a Djurgården supporter in both codes. Stig died in 1989; Hasse lived on into his late nineties as one of the club's living legends. Djurgården Football and Djurgården Hockey announced his death on 17 September 2026, stating that he had died at the age of 98. Exact place and cause of death were not published in the club tributes. The football club planned a commemorative applause before a home match against IF Elfsborg.
Hasse Tvilling's legacy sits at the heart of Djurgården identity: a twin who helped define an era when the same men could still master two winter and summer sports at the highest Swedish level, and a Hall of Fame figure whose medals from Oslo and Zurich still stand among the club's proudest international results.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); Olympedia; Djurgården Fotboll and Djurgården Hockey tributes (17 Sep 2026).
In their own words
“Vi sörjer bortgången av Hans Tvilling, men minns samtidigt honom med värme, stolthet och tacksamhet över hans unika insatser för Djurgården.”
Djurgården Fotboll memorial statement, 17 September 2026
“En av våra största Djurgårdare har lämnat oss.”
Djurgården Hockey supporters / club tribute echoed on social media, September 2026
Photos
1Hans Andersson-Tvilling in the 1950s
by People Forever
that 1955 double is still the only time any club's done it