in spring 1979 the club suddenly had no goalkeeper, as first goal keeper ronny sörensson and second goalkeeper leif hult both had suffered injuries. minor ones, but nevertheless none of them could play the away game against ifk sundsvall in sundsvall. in the end, it was decided to put the goalkeeper coach rolf nilsson behind the posts. he was then 46 years, 8 months and 13 days old, which was, and still is, the record for the oldest player ever to play in allsvenskan (as of march 2015). nilsson conceded two goals, but bois won the game with 3–2. örebro sk has used an even older goal keeper in the zeroes, but only as a substitute goal keeper who never got to play.