European Women's Football Championship 2013 / Sweden

This article covers the Swedish national team at the 2013 European Women's Football Championship in Sweden . The selection team did not have to qualify as "hosts".

preparation

The international season began for the Swedish selection with participation in the annual Algarve Cup in Portugal . There the team remained undefeated during the entire tournament after the end of regular time, but after one win and two draws in the group stage behind the United States, it was only enough for the game for third place, which was lost to Norway on penalties . Nevertheless, the Swedes provided the top scorer with the triple successful Kosovar Asllani , who was tied with the American Alex Morgan .

After a test match against Iceland in April, which ended with a 2-0 win with two goals from Lotta Schelin , the first preparatory phase for the final finding of the team began in June. On June 1st, Norway was selected and reciprocated with a 2-1 victory for the defeat in spring, on June 19th a meeting with Brazil was on the agenda, which ended 1-1. A few days before the final game against Denmark on July 10th, the selection for the final preparatory game on July 4th was played by the English women's selection and won 4-1.

Contingent

Over the course of the year, 24 players (as of June 1, 2013) were used in the selection team under the selection coach Pia Sundhage . Emma Berglund from Umeå IK , who had previously played in all five international matches of the year, had to cancel in April due to a torn cruciate ligament . Another failure followed at the end of May when her club mate Hanna Folkesson also had to cancel participation in the tournament due to a ligament injury she had suffered in preparation for the international match in Norway. Sundhage reacted a few days later with the subsequent nomination of the young international players Marija Banušić and Lina Hurtig for the Brazil international game in order to enable them to make the leap into the EM squad.

Six days after the 1-1 draw with Brazil, Sundhage announced their final squad for the finals. She did without the two young players, instead Jenny Hjohlman and Therese Sjögran were among the 23 selected players. In particular, the nomination of the 182-time national player Sjögran was surprising, as she had been out for a long time due to injury and could not fight for a regular place even with her club LdB FC Malmö in the time before the finals . According to her own statements, she did not count on it, when she last worked for the national team in March 2012, and already bought tickets for the final as a spectator. Sundhage justified the nomination in particular with her routine and experience. With an average age of 27.8 years (at the start of the tournament), the Swedish squad is the oldest of all EM participants.

No.	Surname	society	International matches (goals) (a)0	birthday	Sp.	goal
Goalkeepers
01	Kristin Hammarström	Kopparbergs / Gothenburg FC	027 0(0)	March 29, 1982	5	0	0	0	0
12	Hedvig Lindahl	Kristianstads DFF	091 0(0)	April 29, 1983	0	0	0	0	0
21st	Sofia Lundgren	Linköpings FC	030 0(0)	20th September 1982	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
05	Nilla Fischer	Linköpings FC	107 (18)	2nd August 1984	5	3	1/1	0	0
04th	Amanda Ilestedt	LdB FC Malmö	001 0(0)	17th January 1993	0	0	0	0	0
16	Lina Nilsson	LdB FC Malmö	046 0(0)	June 17, 1987	2	0	0	0	0
02	Charlotte Rohlin	Linköpings FC	066 0(6)	2nd December 1980	5	0	0	0	0
18th	Jessica Samuelsson	Linköpings FC	011 0(0)	January 30, 1992	4th	0	0	0	0
03	Stina Segerström	Kopparbergs / Gothenburg FC	057 0(3)	June 17, 1982	0	0	0	0	0
06th	Sara Thunebro	Tyresö FF	112 0(5)	April 26, 1979	5	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
07th	Lisa Dahlkvist	Tyresö FF	075 0(9)	February 6, 1987	5	0	0	0	0
11	Antonia Göransson	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	040 0(7)	September 16, 1990	4th	0	0	0	0
20th	Marie Hammarström	Kopparbergs / Gothenburg FC	040 0(5)	March 29, 1982	5	1	0	0	0
10	Sofia Jakobsson	Chelsea FC	035 0(5)	April 23, 1990	4th	0	0	0	0
13	Emmelie Konradsson	Umeå IK	008 0(0)	April 9, 1989	1	0	0	0	0
19th	Elin Magnusson	KIF Örebro	001 0(0)	2nd June 1982	0	0	0	0	0
17th	Caroline Seger	Tyresö FF	112 (14)	March 19, 1985	5	0	0	0	0
15th	Therese Sjögran	LdB FC Malmö	185 (19)	April 8, 1977	2	0	0	0	0
Attackers
09	Kosovars Asllani	Paris Saint-Germain	055 (12)	July 29, 1989	5	1	0	0	0
23	Jenny Hjohlman	Umeå IK	002 0(0)	February 13, 1990	1	0	0	0	0
14th	Josefine Öqvist	Kristianstads DFF	078 (20)	July 23, 1983	5	2	0	0	0
08th	Lotta Schelin	Olympique Lyon	126 (59)	February 27, 1984	5	5	0	0	0
22nd	Olivia Schough	Kopparbergs / Gothenburg FC	006 0(0)	March 11, 1991	1	0	0	0	0

^(a)A international matches (international goals in brackets); Status: July 24, 2013, after the game against Germany

European Championship finals

Sweden met in the preliminary round Group A in Denmark , Italy and Finland . The hosts could not win the opening game of the group stage for the first time, but with two wins in the two following games, the hosts sovereignly prevailed as group winners and then met in the quarter-finals on Iceland, third in group B, against which they won 4-0 has been. In the semi-finals, the Swedish team met Germany for the fifth time in a European Championship finals and, like the four previous games, this one was also lost. The Swedish players Lotta Schelin and Nilla Fischer received the Golden and Silver Shoe as the best goal scorers .

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Sweden	3	2	1	0	009: 200	+7	07th
2.	Italy	3	1	1	1	003: 400	−1	04th
3.	Denmark	3	0	2	1	003: 400	−1	02
4th	Finland	3	0	2	1	001: 600	−5	02

The Swedish team before the European Championship semi-final against Germany on July 24, 2013

Group games

Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 8:30 p.m. in Gothenburg
Sweden	-	Denmark	1: 1 (1: 1)
Saturday, July 13, 2013, 8:30 p.m. in Gothenburg
Finland	-	Sweden	0: 5 (0: 3)
Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 8:30 p.m. in Halmstad
Sweden	-	Italy	3: 1 (0: 0)

Knockout round

Sunday, July 21, 2013, 3 p.m. in Halmstad
Sweden	-	Iceland	4: 0 (3: 0)
Wednesday, July 24, 2013, 8:30 p.m. in Gothenburg
Sweden	-	Germany	0: 1 (0: 1)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Schelin tvåmålsskytt mot Island" (accessed on June 10, 2013)
2. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Damlandslagets spelare 2013" (accessed on June 10, 2013)
3. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Emma Berglund borta från EM" (accessed on June 10, 2013)
4. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Hanna Folkesson borta från EM" (accessed on June 10, 2013)
5. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Banusic och Hurtig får chansen av Sundhage" (accessed on June 10, 2013)
6. ↑ de.uefa.com: "Sundhage nominates two newcomers" (accessed on June 27, 2013)
7. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Sjögran och Hjohlman i Sundhages EM-Trupp" (accessed on June 27, 2013)
8. ↑ Back numbers according to [1] , positions partly different than on the association website.

Web links

• uefa.com: Information about the team