He was given a trainee contract with BK Häcken from 2007 to 2009,[3] but was hindered by injuries and instead joined Utsiktens BK in 2010 after spending the spring of 2010 at North Carolina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

[4][5][6] In 2014, he played with the American fourth division team Myrtle Beach FC.

Antonio Hysén came out as gay to the Swedish football magazine Offside in March 2011.

[12] Hysén was profiled on Swedish broadcaster TV4 on 9 March 2011, in a debate show moderated by Lennart Ekdal titled Får även bögar spela fotboll?

[9] He won the seventh season of Let's Dance,[14] being the first openly gay person to win this competition.