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Sweden
Nickname(s)	Blågult ("The Blueyellow")
Association	Svenska Fotbollförbundet
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Lars Lagerbäck, 2000-
Captain	Fredrik Ljungberg
Most caps	Thomas Ravelli (143)
Top scorer	Sven Rydell (49)
Home stadium	Råsunda Stadium
FIFA code	SWE
FIFA ranking	24
Highest FIFA ranking	2 (November 1994)
Lowest FIFA ranking	31 (August 1998)
Elo ranking	18
Highest Elo ranking	2 (June 1950)
Lowest Elo ranking	49 (Sept 1980)
First kit 　 Second kit
First international Sweden 11 - 3 Norway (Gothenburg, Sweden; 12 July 1908)
Biggest win Sweden 12 - 0 Latvia (Stockholm, Sweden; 29 May 1927) Sweden 12 - 0 South Korea (London, England; August 5, 1948)
Biggest defeat England Amateur 12 - 1 Sweden (London, England; 20 October 1908)
World Cup
Appearances	11 (First in 1934)
Best result	Runners-up, 1958
European Championship
Appearances	4 (First in 1992)
Best result	Semi-finals, 1992

Olympic medal record
Men's Football
Gold	1948 London	Team
Bronze	1924 Paris	Team
Bronze	1952 Helsinki	Team

The Sweden national football team is the national football team of Sweden and is controlled by the Swedish Football Association.

Contents 1 History 1.1 1994 World Cup 1.2 2006 World Cup 1.3 2008 European Championship Qualifying 2 Competitive record 2.1 World Cup 2.2 European Championship 2.3 Olympic Games 3 Swedish national team 2007 3.1 Current Squad 3.1.1 Recent callups 3.2 Coaching staff 4 Noted players 5 Sweden managers 6 See also 7 External links 8 Footnotes

Sweden has traditionally been a strong team in world football, with eleven World Cup appearances and three medals. The Swedish team finished second in 1958, when it was the host team, being beaten by Brazil 5-2 in the final (Brazil's first finals success). Sweden has also finished third twice, in 1950 and 1994. In 1938, they finished fourth.

Sweden qualified for the World Cup at the top of their qualifying group ahead of Bulgaria. Sweden was placed in group B with Brazil, Cameroon and Russia. The first game against Cameroon was on the way for yet another 1-2 loss, after the 1990 World Cup fiasco with losses of 1-2 in all three games, but in the 75th minute Martin Dahlin could score the equalizer from a rebound shoot of Henrik Larsson. In the next game against Russia, Russia got ahead from the beginning after a goal from a penalty. But Sweden managed to come back, with a penalty goal from Tomas Brolin and two goals from Martin Dahlin. In the last group stage match against Brazil, Sweden went ahead in the first half but couldn't withstand Brazil for more than the first half and it ended 1-1. In the first knockout stage Sweden faced Saudi Arabia and won 3-1 after two goals from Kennet Andersson and one from Martin Dahlin. The Quarter-final against Romania have become one fixed in the memories of Swedish football fans. After Sweden went ahead late in the second half, Romania managed to equalize in the last minutes of the match, sending it into extra time. Romania's Florin Raducioiu who scored the first goal for Romania, scored his second of the day to take Romania ahead in the 101st minute. But with five minutes left Kennet Andersson but the ball in the back of the net with a header to make 2-2. In the penalty shooting that followed Sweden's Håkan Mild began by shooting over. But with two saves that made Thomas Ravelli a Swedish hero forever, Sweden went through to face Brazil in the semi-finals. Sweden who had manged to get ahead in the group stage against Brazil couldn't do it a second time and lost 0-1 after a goal from Romário. In the third place match Sweden went head-to-head with Bulgaria who had lost to Italy in their semi-final. Sweden got a quick goal in the eighth minute from Tomas Brolin and got three more goals in the first half, the second half went goal less and gave Sweden the bronze medals, the best placing for the national team in a World Cup play-off since the 1958 silver medal. This led Sweden to the second place of the FIFA World Rankings for one month, November 1994.

Sweden's third place finish was their best performance at the World Cup since they were runners-up in 1958. They finished the top scorers of the tournament, with 15 goals.

Sweden competed in Group B at the 2006 World Cup. Their squad for the tournament features players who play club football in eleven different nations. Sweden started the World Cup slowly, recording a scoreless tie against unheralded Trinidad and Tobago, despite playing with a one-man advantage for much of the game. Wilhelmsson and Alexandersson were later referred to as "The unsung heroes of the match" by American newscasters. The second game, against Paraguay, threatened to produce the same result until Fredrik Ljungberg scored in the 89th minute to give Sweden a 1-0 victory. Sweden then rallied to tie England, 2-2, to finish group play with five points - enough to finish second in its group and advance to the second round. There, the team's World Cup run came to an end with 2-0 defeat to the host team, Germany.

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Sweden was drawn into Group F with Denmark, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Spain, Latvia, and Liechtenstein. In the first qualification game, Sweden squared off against Latvia in Riga on September 2, 2006, walking away with a 1-0 victory. Next Sweden welcomed visitors Liechtenstein to Gothenburg on September 6, 2006. Sweden managed to secure a 3-1 victory thanks to two late goals via Marcus Allbäck.

A hard match against Spain awaited at Råsunda, Solna in October 7. Despite La Furia Roja being favourites, Sweden recorded a 2-0 victory with goals from Elmander and Allbäck^[1] On October 11, 2006, Sweden played Iceland in Reykjavík winning 2-1. On March 28th, 2007 Sweden recorded its first loss of the qualifying round at the hands of Northern Ireland. Despite Elmander's 26th minute goal, and subsequent lead, Blågult ultimately fell 2-1.

On June 2, 2007, Sweden played against Denmark in Parken, Copenhagen. With the score at 3-3 and a penalty awarded to Sweden in the 89th minute, the game was abandoned after a Danish supporter stormed the field and attacked the referee after a red card was given to Christian Poulsen. Sweden was later officially awarded a 3-0 win by UEFA.

On June 6th, Sweden defeated Iceland by 5-0. Goals were scored by Allbäck, Rosenberg, Mellberg, and Svensson. On September 8th Sweden faced Denmark once again and the score was 0-0. On October 13th, Sweden traveled to play Liechtenstein. They left Vaduz with a 3-0 victory, thanks to goals by Ljungberg, Wilhelmsson, and Svensson. Four days later Northern Ireland came to Råsunda and played a 1-1 draw. Olof Mellberg scored 1-0 after only 15 minutes of the game but in the second half Lafferty equalized the result. The swedish head coach Lars Lagerbäck admitted that it was his worst competitive game since he was established as head coach in Sweden. Sweden lost against Spain With 3-0 In Madrid They then won against Latvia With 2-1. In The 2008 European Championship they will face Greece, Spain and Russia.

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1930	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1934	Quarter-Finals	8	2	1	0	1	4	4
1938	Fourth place	4	3	1	0	2	11	9
1950	Third place[2]	3	5	2	1	2	11	15
1954	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1958	Runners-up	2	6	4	1	1	12	7
1962	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1966	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1970	Round 1	9	3	1	1	1	2	2
1974	Group Round 2	5	6	2	2	2	7	6
1978	Round 1	13	3	0	1	2	1	3
1982	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1986	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1990	Round 1	21	3	0	0	3	3	6
1994	Third place	3	7	3	3	1	15	8
1998	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002	Round 2	13	4	1	2	1	5	5
2006	Round 2	14	4	1	2	1	3	4
Total	11/18	-	46	16	13	17	74	69

Year	Round	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1960	Did not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1964	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1968	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1972	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1976	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1980	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1984	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1988	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1992	Semi-finals	4	2	1	1	6	5
1996	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
2000	Round 1	3	0	1	2	2	4
2004	Quarter-final	4	1	3	0	8	3
2008	Qualified
Total	4/12	11	3	5	3	16	12

*Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

**Gold background color indicates that the tournament was won. Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

• 1900 - Did not compete
• 1904 - Did not compete
• 1908 - Lost the bronze medal match
• 1912 - First round
• 1920 - Quarter final
• 1924 - Bronze
• 1928 - Did not compete
• 1936 - First round
• 1948 - Gold
• 1952 - Bronze
• 1956-1984 - Did not compete
• 1988 - Quarter final
• 1992 - Quarter final
• 1996-2008 - Did not qualify

The following players named for Euro 2008 Qualifying against Spain and Latvia on November 2007.

Caps and goals as of 22 November 2007, included against Latvia.

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Goals Club GK Andreas Isaksson 3 October 1981 52 0 Manchester City FC GK Rami Shaaban 30 June 1975 13 0 Fredrikstad FK DF Olof Mellberg 3 September 1977 79 4 Aston Villa FC DF Erik Edman 11 November 1978 55 1 Stade Rennais FC DF Mikael Nilsson 24 June 1978 43 3 Panathinaikos FC DF Petter Hansson 14 December 1976 30 1 Stade Rennais FC DF Daniel Majstorović 5 April 1977 12 1 FC Basel DF Mikael Dorsin 6 October 1981 10 0 CFR Cluj DF Matias Concha 31 March 1980 8 0 VfL Bochum DF Andreas Granqvist 16 April 1985 2 0 Wigan Athletic FC MF Anders Svensson 17 July 1976 84 15 IF Elfsborg MF Fredrik Ljungberg (c) 16 April 1977 70 14 West Ham United FC MF Daniel Andersson 28 August 1977 58 0 Malmö FF MF Kim Källström 24 August 1982 52 8 Olympique Lyonnais MF Christian Wilhelmsson 8 December 1979 48 4 Bolton Wanderers FC MF Andreas Johansson 5 July 1978 15 0 Aalborg BK MF Kennedy Bakircioglü 2 November 1980 11 0 AFC Ajax MF Sebastian Larsson 6 June 1985 0 0 Birmingham City FC FW Marcus Allbäck 5 July 1973 70 30 FC Copenhagen FW Zlatan Ibrahimović 3 October 1981 49 18 FC Internazionale Milano FW Markus Rosenberg 27 September 1982 19 6 SV Werder Bremen FW Rade Prica 30 June 1980 12 2 Aalborg BK

The following players have also been called up to the Sweden squad during year 2007.

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Goals Club GK John Alvbåge 8 August 1982 3 0 Viborg FF GK Johan Wiland 24 January 1981 2 0 IF Elfsborg DF Max von Schlebrügge 1 February 1977 8 0 RSC Anderlecht DF Per Nilsson 14 September 1982 5 0 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim DF Daniel Mobaeck 22 May 1980 3 0 IF Elfsborg DF Markus Jonsson 9 March 1981 3 0 AIK DF Oscar Wendt 24 October 1985 3 0 FC Copenhagen DF Niklas Sandberg 3 September 1978 2 0 CFR Cluj DF Fredrik Stenman 2 June 1983 2 0 FC Groningen MF Niclas Alexandersson 29 December 1971 103 7 IFK Göteborg MF Tobias Linderoth (vc) 21 April 1979 73 1 Galatasaray SK MF Stefan Ishizaki 15 May 1981 10 0 IF Elfsborg MF Jeffrey Aubynn 12 May 1977 7 0 Aalesunds FK MF Martin Ericsson 4 September 1980 7 0 Brøndby IF MF Dusan Djuric 16 September 1984 4 0 Halmstads BK MF Samuel Holmén 20 June 1984 4 0 Brøndby IF MF Pontus Wernbloom 25 June 1986 1 0 IFK Göteborg FW Johan Elmander 27 May 1981 31 11 Toulouse FC FW Daniel Nannskog 22 May 1974 3 1 Stabæk IF FW Olof Guterstam 4 January 1983 2 0 IF Brommapojkarna MF Ola Toivonen 3 July 1986 2 0 Malmö FF

Head Coach	Lars Lagerbäck
Assistant Coach	Roland Andersson

See also: List of Sweden international footballers

Kennet Andersson Patrik Andersson Jesper Blomqvist Tomas Brolin Martin Dahlin Ralf Edström Gunnar Gren Kurt Hamrin

Glenn Hysén Zlatan Ibrahimović Ove Kindvall Henrik Larsson Nils Liedholm Anders Limpar Fredrik Ljungberg Roland Nilsson

Torbjörn Nilsson Gunnar Nordahl Thomas Ravelli Sven Rydell Lennart Skoglund Glenn Strömberg Jonas Thern Pär Zetterberg

See also: List of Sweden national football team managers

1908 Ludvig Kornerup 1909–11 Wilhelm Friberg 1912 John Ohlson 1912–13 Ruben 'Massa' Gelbord 1914–15 Hugo Levin 1916 Frey Svenson 1917–20 Anton Johanson 1921–36 John 'Bill' Pettersson

1937 Carl 'Ceve' Linde 1938–42 Gustaf 'Gurra' Carlson 1942 Selection Committee 1943–56 Rudolf 'Putte' Kock 1957–61 Eric Person 1962–65 Lennart Nyman 1966–70 Orvar Bergmark 1971–79 Georg 'Åby' Ericson

1980–85 Lars 'Laban' Arnesson 1986–90 Olle Nordin 1990 Nils Andersson 1991–97 Tommy Svensson 1998–99 Tommy Söderberg 2000–04 T. Söderberg & L. Lagerbäck 2004– Lars Lagerbäck

• Football in Sweden
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• National team statistics (Swedish)
• RSSSF archive of results 1908-
• RSSSF archive of most capped players and highest goalscorers
• RSSSF archive of coaches
• World Cup history at Planet World Cup

1. ^ http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/FixturesResults/Round=2241/match=83714/index.html
2. ^ There was no official World Cup final match or bronze match in 1950. The tournament winner was decided by a final round-robin group contested by four teams (Uruguay, Brazil, Sweden, and Spain). Sweden's 3-1 victory over Spain ensured that they finished third.

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