List of Swedish World Cup participants
The list of Swedish football world championship participants lists all Swedish football players who have been in the officially registered squad of the Swedish national team since the introduction of the World Cup finals in 1930 , as well as Swedish football coaches who were primarily responsible for looking after the Swedish or foreign national teams during a final tournament.
background
After the founding of FIFA in 1904, the first thoughts on hosting a World Cup arose, but initially the Olympic football tournaments served exclusively as a transcontinental test of strength for the various national teams . In 1928 the world association finally decided to host a world championship tournament, which was to be held in Uruguay .
In 1904 Sweden was represented by Svenska Bollspelsförbundet when FIFA was founded. A short time later, Svenska Fotbollförbundet took over the right to represent Swedish football at FIFA. Under his leadership, the first international match of the national team took place in 1908 , which in the following years regularly took part in the Olympic Games and achieved its first international success with the bronze medal at the Olympic soccer tournament in 1924 .
When the World Cup was held for the first time, with the finals taking place in Uruguay in 1930 , there was no athletic qualification; the participating national teams accepted the invitation of FIFA and Uruguay. Sweden refrained from participating. At the subsequent World Cup finals in Italy four years later , the Swedish national team qualified for the tournament for the first time. Since then, the team has participated in the qualifying rounds and qualified for ten finals. In addition, she took part in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden as a host, for which no qualification participation was necessary. Thus, there are currently eleven finals for the selection team.
Since the first participation in the finals in 1934, those responsible have appointed a total of 191 players to the respective World Cup squads. Henrik Larsson, with 13 games in three finals, leads the ranking ahead of Bo Larsson and Kalle Svensson with eleven finals each, followed by Björn Nordqvist , Klas Ingesson , Roland Nilsson , Ronnie Hellström , Thomas Ravelli and Tomas Brolin, six players with ten appearances each. The respective squads included 54 players who were not considered in the final round matches. Only Curt Svensson and Ingemar Haraldsson remained as World Cup participants without any international appearances.
List of players
- Name : gives the name of the player.
- Participations : states the number of final round participations
- Tournaments : List the tournaments in which the player participated
- World Cup matches : states the number of final round matches
- World Cup goals : states the number of final round goals. Goals on penalties are not taken into account.
- Matches : states the total number of international matches played (as of June 7, 2011)
- Goals : states the total number of international goals scored. Goals on penalties are also not taken into account. (As of June 7, 2011)
| Surname | Participation | Tournaments | World Cup games | World Cup goals | Games | Gates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henock Abrahamsson | 1 | 1938 | 3 | 0 | 6th | 0 |
| Olle Åhlund | 1 | 1950 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 2 |
| Thomas Ahlström | 1 | 1974 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 |
| Ronald Åhman | 1 | 1978 | 0 | 0 | 7th | 0 |
| Niclas Alexandersson | 2 | 2002, 2006 | 8th | 1 | 109 | 7th |
| Marcus Allbäck | 2 | 2002, 2006 | 8th | 1 | 73 | 30th |
| Erik Almgren | 1 | 1938 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| John Alvbåge | 1 | 2006 | 0 | 0 | 4th | 0 |
| Åke Andersson | 1 | 1938 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2 |
| Andreas Andersson | 1 | 2002 | 4th | 0 | 42 | 8th |
| Bjorn Andersson | 1 | 1974 | 4th | 0 | 28 | 1 |
| Daniel Andersson | 2 | 2002, 2006 | 1 | 0 | 74 | 0 |
| Ernst Andersson | 1 | 1934 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
| Harry Andersson | 1 | 1938 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Know Andersson | 1 | 1994 | 7th | 5 | 83 | 31 |
| Magnus Andersson | 1 | 1978 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 |
| Otto Andersson | 1 | 1934 | 0 | 0 | 15th | 0 |
| Patrik Andersson | 1 | 1994 | 7th | 0 | 96 | 3 |
| Roland Andersson | 1 | 1978 | 0 | 0 | 19th | 0 |
| Roy Andersson | 1 | 1978 | 3 | 0 | 20th | 0 |
| Sune Andersson | 1 | 1950 | 5 | 2 | 28 | 3 |
| Sven Andersson | 1 | 1934 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 3 |
| Sven Andersson | 1 | 1990 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tomas Antonelius | 1 | 2002 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Jörgen Augustsson | 1 | 1974 | 3 | 0 | 18th | 0 |
| Sanny Åslund | 1 | 1978 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| Sven Axbom | 1 | 1958 | 6th | 0 | 31 | 0 |
| Kurt Axelsson | 1 | 1970 | 3 | 0 | 30th | 0 |
| Nils Axelsson | 1 | 1934 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 0 |
| Orvar Bergmark | 1 | 1958 | 6th | 0 | 94 | 0 |
| Sven Bergqvist | 1 | 1938 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 0 |
| Curt Bergsten | 1 | 1938 | 0 | 0 | 6th | 1 |
| Bengt Berndtsson | 1 | 1958 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 6th |
| Joachim Björklund | 1 | 1994 | 6th | 0 | 78 | 0 |
| Jesper Blomqvist | 1 | 1994 | 2 | 0 | 30th | 0 |
| Tomas Brolin | 2 | 1990, 1994 | 10 | 4th | 47 | 26th |
| Ivan Bodin | 1 | 1950 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Hans Borg | 1 | 1978 | 3 | 0 | 49 | 4th |
| Reino Börjesson | 1 | 1958 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 2 |
| Carlsson rune | 1 | 1934 | 2 | 0 | 7th | 0 |
| Victor Carlund | 1 | 1934 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| Claes Cronqvist | 2 | 1970, 1974 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| Martin Dahlin | 1 | 1994 | 5 | 4th | 60 | 29 |
| Gösta Dunker | 1 | 1934 | 2 | 1 | 15th | 4th |
| Erik Edman | 2 | 2002, 2006 | 4th | 0 | 57 | 1 |
| Ralf Edström | 2 | 1974, 1978 | 9 | 4th | 40 | 15th |
| Inge Ejderstedt | 2 | 1970, 1974 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 8th |
| Johnny Ekström | 1 | 1990 | 2 | 1 | 47 | 13 |
| Johan Elmander | 1 | 2006 | 2 | 0 | 55 | 16 |
| Leif Engqvist | 1 | 1990 | 1 | 0 | 18th | 2 |
| Ivar Eriksson | 1 | 1938 | 3 | 0 | 4th | 0 |
| Jan Eriksson | 1 | 1990 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 4th |
| Lars Eriksson | 2 | 1990, 1994 | 0 | 0 | 17th | 0 |
| Leif Eriksson | 1 | 1970 | 2 | 0 | 49 | 12 |
| Ingemar Erlandsson | 1 | 1978 | 3 | 0 | 69 | 2 |
| Magnus Erlingmark | 1 | 1994 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 0 |
| Pontus Farnerud | 1 | 2002 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Ingvar Gärd | 1 | 1950 | 5 | 0 | 6th | 0 |
| Karl-Erik Grahn | 1 | 1938 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 4th |
| Ove Grahn | 2 | 1970, 1974 | 8th | 1 | 45 | 10 |
| Gunnar Gren | 1 | 1958 | 5 | 1 | 57 | 32 |
| Mats Gren | 1 | 1990 | 0 | 0 | 22nd | 0 |
| Roland Grip | 2 | 1970, 1974 | 6th | 0 | 55 | 1 |
| Bengt Gustavsson | 1 | 1958 | 6th | 0 | 57 | 0 |
| Ragnar Gustavsson | 1 | 1934 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 |
| Göran Hagberg | 2 | 1974, 1978 | 0 | 0 | 15th | 0 |
| Olle Håkansson | 1 | 1958 | 0 | 0 | 7th | 0 |
| Kurt Hamrin | 1 | 1958 | 5 | 4th | 32 | 17th |
| Knut Hansson | 1 | 1938 | 0 | 0 | 7th | 6th |
| Petter Hansson | 1 | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 2 |
| Ingemar Haraldsson | 1 | 1958 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Magnus Hedman | 2 | 1994, 2002 | 4th | 0 | 58 | 0 |
| Ronnie Hellström | 3 | 1970, 1974, 1978 | 10 | 0 | 77 | 0 |
| Carl-Erik Holmberg | 1 | 1934 | 0 | 0 | 14th | 8th |
| Glenn Hysén | 1 | 1990 | 2 | 0 | 68 | 7th |
| Zlatan Ibrahimović | 2 | 2002, 2006 | 5 | 0 | 69 | 28 |
| Klas Ingesson | 2 | 1990, 1994 | 10 | 0 | 57 | 13 |
| Andreas Isaksson | 2 | 2002, 2006 | 3 | 0 | 84 | 0 |
| Sven Jacobsson | 1 | 1938 | 2 | 0 | 7th | 1 |
| Andreas Jakobsson | 1 | 2002 | 4th | 0 | 37 | 2 |
| Gunnar Jansson | 1 | 1934 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Ulrik Jansson | 1 | 1990 | 0 | 0 | 6th | 0 |
| Hate Jeppson | 1 | 1950 | 4th | 2 | 12 | 9 |
| Åke Johansson | 1 | 1958 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 1 |
| Georg Johansson | 1 | 1934 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Gunnar Johansson | 1 | 1950 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Sven Jonasson | 2 | 1934, 1938 | 5 | 3 | 42 | 20th |
| Egon Jonsson | 1 | 1950 | 3 | 0 | 22nd | 9 |
| Mattias Jonson | 2 | 2002, 2006 | 6th | 0 | 57 | 9 |
| Henry Källgren | 1 | 1958 | 1 | 0 | 8th | 8th |
| Olle Källgren | 1 | 1938 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| Kim Källström | 1 | 2006 | 4th | 0 | 82 | 14th |
| Pontus Kåmark | 1 | 1994 | 4th | 0 | 57 | 0 |
| Einar Karlsson | 1 | 1938 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Kent Karlsson | 2 | 1974, 1978 | 6th | 0 | 38 | 0 |
| Tore basement | 2 | 1934, 1938 | 4th | 1 | 25th | 16 |
| Magnus Kihlstedt | 1 | 2002 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| Ove Kindvall | 2 | 1970, 1974 | 5 | 0 | 43 | 16 |
| Krister Kristensson | 1 | 1970 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 0 |
| Knut Kroon | 1 | 1934 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 18th |
| Bo Larsson | 3 | 1970, 1974, 1978 | 11 | 0 | 70 | 17th |
| Henrik Larsson | 3 | 1994, 2002, 2006 | 13 | 5 | 106 | 37 |
| Lennart Larsson | 1 | 1978 | 3 | 0 | 26th | 4th |
| Peter Larsson | 1 | 1990 | 3 | 0 | 47 | 4th |
| Sven-Gunnar Larsson | 2 | 1970, 1974 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 0 |
| Nils Liedholm | 1 | 1958 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 12 |
| Helge Liljebjörn | 1 | 1934 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| Limpar is different | 2 | 1990, 1994 | 3 | 0 | 58 | 6th |
| Folke Lind | 1 | 1938 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Torsten Lindberg | 1 | 1950 | 0 | 0 | 19th | 0 |
| Arne Linderholm | 1 | 1938 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Linderoth is different | 1 | 1978 | 3 | 0 | 40 | 2 |
| Tobias Linderoth | 2 | 2002, 2006 | 8th | 1 | 76 | 2 |
| Sven Lindman | 1 | 1974 | 0 | 0 | 21st | 1 |
| Roger Ljung | 2 | 1990, 1994 | 7th | 1 | 59 | 3 |
| Freddie Ljungberg | 2 | 2002, 2006 | 6th | 1 | 75 | 14th |
| Gosta Löfgren | 1 | 1958 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 12 |
| Teddy Lučić | 3 | 1994, 2002, 2006 | 8th | 0 | 86 | 0 |
| Benno Magnusson | 1 | 1974 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Mats Magnusson | 1 | 1990 | 1 | 0 | 30th | 9 |
| Leif Målberg | 1 | 1970 | 0 | 0 | 4th | 0 |
| Arne Månsson | 1 | 1950 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Bror Mellberg | 2 | 1950, 1958 | 4th | 1 | 6th | 2 |
| Olof Mellberg | 2 | 2002, 2006 | 8th | 0 | 106 | 7th |
| Håkan Mild | 1 | 1994 | 5 | 1 | 74 | 8th |
| Johan Mjällby | 1 | 2002 | 4th | 0 | 49 | 4th |
| Jan Möller | 1 | 1978 | 0 | 0 | 17th | 0 |
| Göran Nicklasson | 1 | 1970 | 2 | 0 | 8th | 1 |
| Erik Nilsson | 2 | 1938, 1950 | 6th | 0 | 57 | 0 |
| Joakim Nilsson | 1 | 1990 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 1 |
| Roland Nilsson | 2 | 1990, 1994 | 10 | 0 | 116 | 2 |
| Stellan Nilsson | 1 | 1950 | 2 | 0 | 17th | 4th |
| Mikael Nilsson | 1 | 1994 | 0 | 0 | 22nd | 0 |
| Torbjörn Nilsson | 1 | 1978 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 9 |
| Knut Nordahl | 1 | 1950 | 3 | 0 | 26th | 1 |
| Thomas Nordahl | 1 | 1970 | 1 | 0 | 15th | 5 |
| Olle Nordin | 1 | 1978 | 1 | 0 | 19th | 2 |
| Björn Nordqvist | 3 | 1970, 1974, 1978 | 10 | 0 | 115 | 0 |
| Arne Nyberg | 1 | 1938 | 3 | 3 | 31 | 18th |
| Niclas Nylén | 1 | 1990 | 0 | 0 | 8th | 1 |
| Prawitz Öberg | 1 | 1958 | 0 | 0 | 26th | 5 |
| Owe Ohlsson | 1 | 1958 | 0 | 0 | 15th | 6th |
| Jan Olsson | 1 | 1974 | 4th | 0 | 17th | 0 |
| Jan Olsson | 1 | 1970 | 2 | 0 | 22nd | 1 |
| Gunnar Olsson | 1 | 1934 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4th |
| Karl-Erik Palmér | 1 | 1950 | 5 | 3 | 14th | 10 |
| Sten Pålsson | 1 | 1970 | 0 | 0 | 19th | 5 |
| Sigvard Parling | 1 | 1958 | 6th | 0 | 37 | 0 |
| Erik Persson | 1 | 1938 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 20th |
| Örjan Persson | 2 | 1970, 1974 | 4th | 0 | 48 | 7th |
| Ronney Pettersson | 1 | 1970 | 0 | 0 | 17th | 0 |
| Stefan Pettersson | 1 | 1990 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 4th |
| Thomas Ravelli | 2 | 1990, 1994 | 10 | 0 | 143 | 0 |
| Stefan Rehn | 1 | 1994 | 1 | 0 | 45 | 6th |
| Nils Rosén | 1 | 1934 | 2 | 0 | 25th | 0 |
| Markus Rosenberg | 1 | 2006 | 0 | 0 | 30th | 6th |
| Rydberg is different | 1 | 1934 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| Ingvar Rydell | 1 | 1950 | 1 | 0 | 14th | 9 |
| Roland Sandberg | 1 | 1974 | 6th | 2 | 37 | 15th |
| Lennart Samuelsson | 1 | 1950 | 5 | 0 | 36 | 0 |
| Stefan Schwarz | 2 | 1990, 1994 | 9 | 0 | 66 | 6th |
| Agne Simonsson | 1 | 1958 | 5 | 4th | 51 | 27 |
| Hans Selander | 1 | 1970 | 2 | 0 | 42 | 3 |
| Arne Selmosson | 1 | 1958 | 1 | 0 | 4th | 1 |
| Rami Shaaban | 1 | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| Gustav Sjöberg | 1 | 1938 | 0 | 0 | 21st | 0 |
| Thomas Sjöberg | 1 | 1978 | 3 | 1 | 45 | 14th |
| Lennart Skoglund | 2 | 1950, 1958 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
| Einar cut | 1 | 1934 | 0 | 0 | 17th | 0 |
| Fredrik Stenman | 1 | 2006 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Glenn Strömberg | 1 | 1990 | 3 | 1 | 52 | 7th |
| Stig Sundqvist | 1 | 1950 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 3 |
| Kurt Svanström | 1 | 1938 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
| Not so Svensson | 2 | 2002, 2006 | 5 | 1 | 116 | 18th |
| Curt Svensson | 1 | 1950 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kalle Svensson | 2 | 1950, 1958 | 11 | 0 | 73 | 0 |
| Karl Svensson | 1 | 2006 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Magnus Svensson | 1 | 2002 | 4th | 0 | 32 | 0 |
| Michael Svensson | 1 | 2002 | 0 | 0 | 25th | 0 |
| Tommy Svensson | 1 | 1970 | 3 | 0 | 40 | 4th |
| Tore Svensson | 2 | 1950, 1958 | 0 | 0 | 4th | 0 |
| Börje Tapper | 1 | 1950 | 0 | 0 | 4th | 7th |
| Staffan Tapper | 2 | 1974, 1978 | 7th | 0 | 36 | 3 |
| Jonas Thern | 2 | 1990, 1994 | 7th | 0 | 75 | 6th |
| Arvid Thörn | 1 | 1934 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Conny Torstensson | 2 | 1974, 1978 | 6th | 1 | 40 | 7th |
| Tom Turesson | 1 | 1970 | 2 | 1 | 22nd | 9 |
| Gustav Wetterström | 1 | 1938 | 2 | 3 | 7th | 7th |
| Benny Wendt | 1 | 1978 | 3 | 0 | 20th | 1 |
| Eivar Widlund | 1 | 1934 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Christian Wilhelmsson | 1 | 2006 | 4th | 0 | 66 | 5 |
Trainer
Swedish national team
The compilation of the Swedish team for international matches was initially the responsibility of a selection committee ( Uttagningskommittén ). During the game, the chairman of the committee was usually responsible for the selection. However, during the tournaments in which the Swedish selection took part, there were sometimes trainers who at least instructed the training. With the English coach George Raynor at the side of the selection committee headed by Eric Persson , the team achieved their greatest success at a World Cup finals, when they reached the final against Brazil at the 1958 World Cup in their own country and, after a 2: 5 defeat, the vice-world title was achieved.
The Swedish Football Association only introduced an official national coach ( Förbundskapten ) after missing the qualification for the 1962 World Cup . Under Lennart Nyman , however, the selection team also missed participation in the 1966 World Cup , only under his successor Orvar Bergmark - as a second division player himself part of the team that became vice world champion in 1958 - and Georg Ericson succeeded in participating in the finals again. Under Lars Arnesson in the 1980s again outside of the major tournaments, Olle Nordin was only the third full-time coach at the 1990 World Cup to coach a Swedish national team at a World Cup finals.
Tommy Svensson led the Swedish national team to the greatest success in recent history at the 1994 World Cup , when they reached the semi-finals for the first time since 1958 and took the bronze medal after defeating Bulgaria . After missing the finals four years later, Lars Lagerbäck led the selection to the round of 16 at the finals in 2002 and in the 2006 World Cup , in the first tournament still in a duo with Tommy Söderberg . A third tournament participation with the Swedish selection was denied to him, in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup , he failed with the selection as group third behind Denmark and Portugal .
Foreign national teams
In 2002, Sven-Göran Eriksson was the first Swedish coach to take part in a world championship tournament with a foreign team. The English national team he supervised failed in the quarter-finals to Brazil. Four years later he was eliminated with her in the same round against Portugal. In 2010, Eriksson was less successful as coach of Ivory Coast , at the first finals held on the African continent in South Africa, the team only finished third in the group stage.
After Lagerbäck had missed the 2010 final tournament with the Swedish selection, he - as the second Swedish coach of a foreign national team - was still on the sidelines during the World Cup finals, as the Nigerian association had signed him to look after the Nigerian national team at the beginning of 2010 . With just one plus point, he finished last in the group with the team, and then his engagement ended.