European Football Championship 2008 / Sweden

The Swedish national football team at the 2008 European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland.

European Championship qualification 2008

Games

Riga	September 2, 2006	Latvia	-	Sweden	0: 1 (0: 1)	Kallstrom 38 '
Gothenburg	September 6, 2006	Sweden	-	Liechtenstein	3: 1 (1: 1)	Allbäck 2 ', 69', Rosenberg 89 'and M. Frick 27'
Solna	October 7, 2006	Sweden	-	Spain	2: 0 (1: 0)	Elmander 10 ', Allbäck 82'
Reykjavík	October 11, 2006	Iceland	-	Sweden	1: 2 (0: 2)	Viðarsson 6 ', Källström 8', Wilhelmsson 59 '
Belfast	March 28, 2007	Northern Ireland	-	Sweden	2: 1 (1: 1)	Healy 31 ', 58' and Elmander 26 '
Copenhagen	June 2, 2007	Denmark	-	Sweden	0: 3 *
Solna	June 6, 2007	Sweden	-	Iceland	5: 0 (3: 0)	Allbäck 11 ', 51', A. Svensson 42 ', Mellberg 45', Rosenberg 50 '
Solna	September 8, 2007	Sweden	-	Denmark	0-0
Vaduz	October 13, 2007	Liechtenstein	-	Sweden	0: 3 (0: 2)	Ljungberg 19 ', Wilhelmsson 29', A. Svensson 56 '
Solna	October 17, 2007	Sweden	-	Northern Ireland	1: 1 (1: 0)	Mellberg 15 ', Lafferty 72'
Madrid	November 17, 2007	Spain	-	Sweden	3: 0 (2: 0)	Capdevila 14 ', Iniesta 39', Ramos 65 '
Solna	November 21, 2007	Sweden	-	Latvia	2: 1 (1: 1)	Allbäck 1 ', Laizāns 26', Källström 57 '

* The game was rated 3-0 for Sweden after an abandonment at the score of 3: 3.

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Spain	12	9	1	2	23: 8	28
2	Sweden	12	8th	2	2	23: 9	26th
3	Northern Ireland	12	6th	2	4th	17:14	20th
4th	Denmark	12	6th	2	4th	21: 11	20th
5	Latvia	12	4th	0	8th	15: 17	12
6th	Iceland	12	2	2	8th	10:27	8th
7th	Liechtenstein	12	2	1	9	9:32	7th

(Status: November 21, 2007 - final result)

The first two teams qualify directly for the 2008 European Football Championship .

Swedish contingent

Coach Lars Lagerbäck announced the preliminary line-up on May 13, 2008.

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the European Championship	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Andreas Isaksson	Manchester City	10/03/1981	3	0	1	0	0
12	Rami Shaaban	Hammarby IF	06/30/1975	0	0	0	0	0
13	Johan Wiland	IF Elfsborg	01/24/1981	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Mikael Nilsson	Panathinaikos Athens	06/24/1978	3	0	0	0	0
3	Olof Mellberg	Aston Villa	09/03/1977	3	0	0	0	0
4th	Petter Hansson	Rennes stadium	December 14, 1976	3	1	0	0	0
5	Fredrik Stoor	Rosenborg BK	02/28/1984	3	0	0	0	0
14th	Daniel Majstorović	FC Basel	04/05/1977	0	0	0	0	0
15th	Andreas Granqvist	Wigan Athletic	04/16/1985	0	0	0	0	0
23	Mikael Dorsin	CFR Cluj	10/06/1981	0	0	0	0	0
midfield player
6th	Tobias Linderoth	Galatasaray Istanbul	04/21/1979	0	0	0	0	0
7th	Niclas Alexandersson	IFK Gothenburg	December 29, 1971	1	0	0	0	0
8th	Not so Svensson	IF Elfsborg	07/17/1976	3	0	1	0	0
9	Freddie Ljungberg	West Ham United	04/16/1977	3	0	0	0	0
16	Kim Källström	Olympique Lyon	08/24/1982	2	0	0	0	0
18th	Sebastian Larsson	Birmingham City	06/06/1985	1	0	0	0	0
19th	Daniel Andersson	Malmö FF	08/28/1977	3	0	0	0	0
21st	Christian Wilhelmsson	Deportivo La Coruña	December 8, 1979	1	0	0	0	0
striker
10	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Inter Milan	10/03/1981	3	2	0	0	0
11	Johan Elmander	Toulouse FC	05/27/1981	2	0	1	0	0
17th	Henrik Larsson	Helsingborgs IF	09/20/1971	3	0	0	0	0
20th	Marcus Allbäck	FC Copenhagen	07/05/1973	1	0	0	0	0
22nd	Markus Rosenberg	SV Werder Bremen	09/27/1982	2	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Lars Lagerbäck		07/16/1948

course

Preliminary round

Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 8:45 pm, in Salzburg
Greece	-	Sweden	0: 2 (0: 0)
Saturday, June 14, 2008, 6:00 p.m., in Innsbruck
Sweden	-	Spain	1: 2 (1: 1)
Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 8:45 p.m., in Innsbruck
Russia	-	Sweden	2: 0 (1: 0)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EM troops portraits