 In 2003 he was inducted as an honour member in Surahammars IF.Pettersson had a two-year stint with IFK Göteborg in Allsvenskan, the top-level football league in Sweden.When Pettersson was acquired by Västra Frölunda IF in 1960, Västra Frölunda's manager Anders Bernmar had talked IFK Göteborg into helping Västra Frölunda with the acquisition, after convincing them that Pettersson not only was a good ice hockey player but a good football player too.