Football player Nils-Eric Johansson began his career playing for IFK Viksjö. In 1997 he was recruited by Bayern Munchen with whom he won Bundesliga 2000, to then in 2000 joining the FC Nurnberg with whom he won the Bundesliga 2 in 2001. Meanwhile, he was appointed team captain for the Swedish U21 national team. Eventually Nils-Eric left Germany to continue with the British team Blackburn Rovers, for which he played i.e., 86 Premier League games, and later Leicester City. In 2007, he returned to Sweden and AIK, becoming Swedish Champions in 2009 and acted team captain from 2013 until his retirement in 2018.

Nils's extensive ice hockey career started in AIK to then joining Hammarby at age 15. In 1993-1994 he won the U18 EJC, in 1994 drafted as a the 107^th player in the NHL by the Calgary Flames and in 1995-1996 he won silver in the U20 WJC. His career continued internationally, first in the finish league to then being recruited to the NFL, playing for i.e., Tampa Bay Lightning, San Jose Sharks and Pittsburgh Penguins. After a period in the Russian KHL, Ekman returned to Djurgården but decided to retire in 2011 subsequent to a stroke. In 2014, Ekman and his wife Danijela Rundqvist, began building Djurgårdens female ice hockey team, which lead to a Swedish Championships win in 2016-2017. Today, Ekman works as an expert commentator for SVT.

Danjiela started her ice hockey career at age 13, and obtains an impressive list of awards. She has won three Swedish championships and five wins in the IIHF European Women’s championships cup with AIK. Besides, together with the Swedish national team she has won both a bronze medal (2002) and a silver medal(2006) in the Winter Olympic and two bronze medals in the WC. She does also have international experience, being drafted to Burlington in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (2010-2011) and HK Tornado in Russia (2011-2012). With the later, she won the Russian and European championships. In 2015 she retired, began building Djurgårdens female ice hockey team, which lead to a Swedish Championships win in 2016-2017. In 2015, she competed against other Swedish athletes in the show Mästarnas Mästare, which she also won.

Mattias is a former ice hockey player who was only 19 when he was drafted as number 78 by the New York Islanders. He continued his career in the elitseries playing for Modo, until he eventually left to join the Islanders in 2002. During his career he shifted between the Swedish eliteseries and the NHL. In total, he has among other things participated in 3 SHL silver medals, 2 Spengler Cup wins and 3 WC bronze medals. After his athletic career, he nows works as an investor and entrepreneur. 

Also Daniel is a former ice hockey player, starting his career playing for Vönnäs HK. Thereafter, he continued in the SHL with Rögle to then winning the Finnish league with Jokerit. In 2001, he ventured to NHL where he was recruited to the clubs Atlanta Trashers, Colorado Avalanche, Minnesota Wild och Edmonton Oilers. Included on his record is also  3 seasons in the Russian KHL and the German DEL. He has won 1 Olymics (2006) and played 5 WC (2 silver and 2 bronze medals). Today he works as a professional trainer. 

Josefin is the exception to this year’s composition of ice hockey and football athletes. Instead, she is one of Swedens most successful swimmers, having debuted in the WC already at age 15.  Since then, she has won 43 medals (of which 13 individual) in international championships and participated in four Olympics. For example, she has  won five  gold, three silver and four bronze WC medals primarily in freestyle apart from her  37 Swedish Championships wins. She was announced the Swedish Swimmer of the Year in 2003, 2004 and 2005. In 2010, she retired as a professional swimmer to work as a personal trainer.

The former football player Fredrik Stenman began his career with Västerås SK and was in 2003 recruited to Djurgården. While there, the team won Allsvenskan, Svenska Cupen and in 2005 “dubbeln”. In 2006, he participated in the WC and continued his career abroad playing for Bayer Leverkusen (2006-2007), FC Groningen and Club Brügge (2011-2014). He completed his time as an elite player playing for Djurgården in 2014-2015. Stenman has continued with coaching for IFK Lidingö while pursuing a career in real estate.

Anna is a former football midfielder having over 50 caps for the Swedish national football team. She has also represented Sweden in the 1995 FIFA Women’s WC and the 1996 Olympics. During her career she has won two Swedish Championships. At age 27, she retired from football to instead try a career as a pop singer. Today, she runs a sport management company that advices athletes and helps former football players with the transition from professional sports.

Petter Andersson was already as an 18-year-old recruited to Hammarby and was in 2008 voted the team’s Player of the year. In the same year he was signed to Groningen, for which he played four seasons and was chosen team captain. He proceeded to Midtjylland that became Danish Champions in 2015. The year after he returned to Sweden and Hammarby, but was not soon thereafter forced to retire because of persistent knee injuries. Andersson has however maintained engaged in sports via his companies Player Development and Full Potential Agency which focuses on managing and coaching football players to achieve their full potential.