European Football Championship 2021 / Sweden

This article covers the Swedish national team at the Pan-European Football Championship 2021 . It is the seventh participation for the Swedish team.

qualification

For the qualification , Sweden was drawn into the group with Spain, Norway, Romania, the Faroe Islands and Malta.

Robin Quaison , Sweden's top scorer in qualifying

In total, national coach Janne Andersson , who took over the team in 2016, used 29 players, of which only Alexander Isak and Kristoffer Olsson played all ten games. Isak had played in two games in January 2017, in which only players from the Swedish league were played and had not been considered for two years. Marcus Berg , Sebastian Larsson , goalkeeper Robin Olsen and Robin Quaison each made nine appearances, but after qualifying they were not used in the last game. Instead, Riccardo Gagliolo , Dejan Kulusevski and Mattias Svanberg made their first international match in this game . When qualifying was still at stake, Marcus Danielsson made his first appearance.

Robin Quaison was the top scorer with five goals. Their first international goal was scored in their first international match in qualifying by Marcus Danielsson (to lead 1-0 in a 4-0 win against Malta) and Mattias Svanberg (to mean 2-0 in a 3-0 win against the Faroe Islands). A total of eleven players contributed to the 21 qualifying goals. The Swedes also benefited from two own goals.

Games

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
03/23/2019	Solna	Romania	2: 1 (2: 0)	Robin Quaison (33rd), Viktor Claesson (40th); Claudiu Keşerü (58th)
March 26, 2019	Oslo	Norway	3: 3 (1: 0)	Bjørn Johnsen (41st), Joshua King (59th), Viktor Claesson (70th), Håvard Nordtveit (86th / own goal), Robin Quaison (90th + 1), Ola Kamara (90th + 7th)
07.06.2019	Solna	Malta	3: 0 (1: 0)	Robin Quaison (2nd), Viktor Claesson (50th), Alexander Isak (81st)
06/10/2019	Madrid	Spain	0: 3 (0: 0)	Sergio Ramos (64./Elfm.), Álvaro Morata (85./Elfm.), Mikel Oyarzabal (87.)
05.09.2019	Tórshavn	Faroe Islands	4: 0 (4: 0)	Alexander Isak (12th, 15th), Victor Lindelöf (23rd), Robin Quaison (41st)
09/08/2019	Solna	Norway	1: 1 (0: 1)	Stefan Johansen (45th); Emil Forsberg (60th)
October 12, 2019	Attard	Malta	4: 0 (1: 0)	Marcus Danielsson (11th), Sebastian Larsson (58th / Elf, 71st / Elf), Andrei Agius (66th / Own goal)
October 15, 2019	Solna	Spain	1: 1 (0: 0)	Marcus Berg (50th), Rodrigo (90th + 2)
11/15/2019	Bucharest	Romania	2: 0 (2: 0)	Marcus Berg (18th), Robin Quaison (34th)
11/18/2019	Solna	Faroe Islands	3: 0 (1: 0)	Sebastian Andersson (29th), Mattias Svanberg (72nd), John Guidetti (80th)

Closing table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Spain	10	8th	2	0	031: 500	+26	26th
2.	Sweden	10	6th	3	1	023: 900	+14	21st
3.	Norway	10	4th	5	1	019:110	+8	17th
4th	Romania	10	4th	2	4th	017:150	+2	14th
5.	Faroe Islands	10	1	0	9	004:300	−26	03
6th	Malta	10	1	0	9	003:270	−24	03

preparation

Preparations began in January with two games in Doha , with the team winning 1-0 against Moldova on the 9th and also 1-0 against Kosovo three days later . Only players from the domestic league and pausing leagues were used in both games, as these dates are not in the FIFA framework calendar and therefore legionaries do not have to be assigned to international matches. Alexander Kačaniklić , for whom it was the internationals number 20 and 21, was the only player who had previously played more than three games. In March there should be games against Russia and Cyprus and in June against EM newcomers Finland and Denmark . However, these were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Finals

Sweden had applied to host games with the Friends Arena in Solna , but was not considered. At the draw on November 30, Sweden was in pot 3 and could have been drawn from Germany, but then Spain and Poland and a team that still has to qualify in March 2020 were drawn. If this is Ireland, they would have two away games. The Swedes played against the Spaniards in qualifying. Overall, the record is negative with three wins, five draws and seven defeats. The last victory came in qualifying for the European Championship in 2008, when the Spaniards then won the title. Against Poland, however, the overall balance is positive. In 26 games there were 14 wins, four draws and eight losses, with the last five games being won. The last defeat against the Poles was in August 1991.

If the Swedish team were group winners, they would play against the third in Group A, B, C or D in Glasgow - subject to the retention of the venues - and in second place a day earlier in Copenhagen against the second in Group D, e.g. B. England, Croatia or the Czech Republic. If they were one of the top four group thirds, either the group B winner with Belgium in Bilbao or the group C winner with the Netherlands in Budapest would be opponents in the round of 16.

Group games

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Spain	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
2.	Sweden	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
3.	Poland	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
4th	Playoff winner way B	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00

June 14, 2021 at 9:00 p.m. in Bilbao
Spain	-	Sweden	-: - (- :–)
June 18, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. in Dublin
Sweden	-	Playoff winner way B	-: - (- :–)
June 23, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. in Dublin
Sweden	-	Poland	-: - (- :–)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ soccerway.com: Sweden