Alexander Gerndt

AIK

Born and raised in Visby, on the island of Gotland, Gerndt started to play for the island's top club Visby IF Gute during his youth system. As Gute's second best goal-scorer, he drew attention from Swedish top league clubs such as Örebro SK and AIK. On 3 November 2006, he signed a three-year contract with AIK. In 2007, he only made five appearances in the league, all without scoring. Struggling to make it into the starting 11, he was loaned out to the second-tier club Sirius prior to the 2008 season. In Sirius, he made 14 appearances, scoring six goals.

Gefle

Although it was thought that he would stay the entire season on loan at Sirius, he signed for Gefle in the top flight division during the summer transfer window of 2008. His start in Gefle was not a success at all; he did not score any goals for the club during 2008. In the season of 2009, Gerndt played 26 out of 30 league games (14 as a starter), scoring 3 goals. In 2010, he made a major breakthrough in his career. Showing much improvement, he scored 8 goals in the first 14 games for Gefle. As a fact of that, it was rumored that he would make a transfer to the Dutch team Heerenveen in the summer transfer windows of 2010, but also that Helsingborg wanted his signature.

Helsingborg

On 18 July 2010, it was confirmed that he would move to Helsingborg, signing a 3.5 year contract. Helsingborg were during that time a club fighting to be the Swedish champions of 2010. Gerndt continued to score…

Alexander Gerndt scored his first goal for the Sweden national team against Botswana, scoring the 1–0 goal in a game that ended with a 2–1 win for the Swedish team.

International

Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Gerndt goal.

Gerndt has gone through a divorce with his wife My, and they have two children together. He has talked about his big interest of tattoos and he has said it's like an obsession. "Once you’ve started, you can’t stop; you are always looking for what the next tattoo project can be." Gerndt was also a survivor of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

Sentence

In December 2011, Gerndt was handed a suspended jail sentence and fined 80,000 SEK for assaulting his ex-wife My. This handed him an indefinite ban from the Sweden national team, as decided by the Swedish Football Association (SvFF). However, the suspension from the national team was lifted on 27 April 2012. Both Gerndt and the prosecutor of the case decided to appeal the sentence on 3 January 2012. Gerndt considered himself not guilty while the prosecutor originally was appealing for a three-month jail sentence.