Oskar Gösta Leonard "Knivsta" Sandberg (6 August 1932 – 27 April 2006) was a Swedish football, ice hockey, and bandy player who is best remembered for representing Djurgårdens IF.

[3] Gösta Sandberg joined Djurgården before the 1951–52 Allsvenskan season and stayed with the team throughout the rest of his career, until 1966, winning four Swedish titles.

[4] Except for a one-year spell in second tier Division 1, Sandberg played all his Djurgården football in Allsvenskan, and there making 298 appearances and scoring 70 goals.

[7][8] He made his international debut in a friendly against Yugoslavia on 2 September 1951[9] In 1956, he received the Guldbollen as Sweden's best footballer of the year.

[11] Sandberg debuted for the national team on 23 November 1958 in a 8–2 win over Finland, where he was part of line together with fellow Djurgården player Hans Mild and Uno Öhrlund of Västerås IK.