Niklas Wikegård could actually have had a completely different surname

He is known as Niklas Wikegård, but could have been called something else entirely. The hockey coach and expert now reveals his family name.
– You don’t even dare to say that, he says in the TV4 program “Wikegård vs”.

His coaching career has been long and successful. Already in 1986, then Niklas Wikegård was 23 years old, he was an assistant coach and brought Väsby up to the elite series. The sensational achievement was followed by a few years as a coach in Boden, Malmö, Swiss EHC Chur and in Djurgården (2002-2005), where he became best known.

For quite a few years, Niklas Wikegård became best known as a hockey expert, first in SVT, but then in CMore and TV4. He has for many years sat in on the channel’s SHL broadcasts and had his own magazines. Among other things, he has appeared in his own program “Wikegård vs”, where he traveled around the world to visit and talk to famous hockey players.

Wikegård’s family name

Now that Wikegård has taken on the task of sporting responsibility for Djurgården, with the goal of bringing them up from the Allsvenskan to the SHL, Wikegård has had to pause his television career. In the last episode of “Wikegård vs”, which is on TV4 Play, he talks a lot about himself and his life before he became a famous hockey coach.

Among other things, the camera crew visits his mother Birgitta, who still lives in the Gävle district of Sätra, where Wikegård grew up. When they look in old school catalogs and photos, they discover that Niklas Jonsson is written on all the photos. That was Wikegård’s name earlier in life. Then it is explained that Wikegård comes from the family farm Vike on Rödön in Jämtland.

– Niklas’s grandmother, meaning father Arnes mother, had a cousin who had no children and lived up there by Vike. This cousin then wanted them to take over the name and they wanted that too, says Birgitta in the program.