The following is a list of the Sweden men's national football team 's competitive records and statistics.
Honours Competition Total World Cup 0 1 2 3 European Championship 0 0 1 1 Olympic Games 1 0 2 3 Nations League 0 0 0 0 Total 1 1 5 7
Major titles FIFA World Cup Runners-up (1): 1958 Third place (2): 1950, 1994 Fourth place (1): 1938 UEFA European Championship Olympic football tournament
Minor titles Nordic Football Championship
Individual records
Player records As of 19 November 2023 [ 1] Players in bold are still active with Sweden.
Most capped players Anders Svensson is Sweden's most capped player of all time, with 148 appearances for the national team.
Top goalscorers Zlatan Ibrahimović is Sweden's all-time top goalscorer, with 62 goals for the national team.
Age-related records of the Sweden men's national football team.[ 2]
Oldest player 41 years, 5 months and 21 days – Zlatan Ibrahimović (0–3 against Belgium on 24 March 2023) Youngest debutante 17 years, 2 months and 11 days – Gunnar Pleijel (5–2 against Finland on 22 October 1911) Oldest debutante 34 years, 9 months and 1 day – Stendy Appeltoft (3–0 against Finland on 28 August 1955) Longest national career 22 years, 1 month and 24 days – Zlatan Ibrahimović (from 31 January 2001 until 24 March 2023) Oldest goalscorer 37 years, 11 months and 26 days – Gunnar Gren (two goals in a 4–4 draw against Denmark on 26 October 1958) Youngest goalscorer 17 years, 3 months and 22 days – Alexander Isak (one goal in a 6–0 win against Slovakia on 12 January 2017)
Manager records This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2021 )
Team records This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2021 )
Competition records Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place 0000 Tournament held on home soil
FIFA World Cup Sweden in the 1958 FIFA World Cup final . Sweden playing against Germany in the 2006 FIFA World Cup at Munich 's Allianz Arena . FIFA World Cup record Qualification record Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA Pld W D L GF GA 1930 Did not enter No qualification 1934 Quarter-finals 8th 2 1 0 1 4 4 2 2 0 0 8 2 1938 Fourth place 4th 3 1 0 2 11 9 3 2 0 1 11 7 1950 Third place 3rd 5 2 1 2 11 15 2 2 0 0 6 2 1954 Did not qualify 4 1 1 2 9 8 1958 Runners-up 2nd 6 4 1 1 12 7 Qualified as hosts 1962 Did not qualify 5 3 0 2 11 5 1966 4 2 1 1 10 3 1970 Group stage 9th 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 3 0 1 12 5 1974 Second round 5th 6 2 2 2 7 6 7 4 2 1 17 9 1978 Group stage 13th 3 0 1 2 1 3 4 3 0 1 7 4 1982 Did not qualify 8 3 2 3 7 8 1986 8 4 1 3 14 9 1990 Group stage 21st 3 0 0 3 3 6 6 4 2 0 9 3 1994 Third place 3rd 7 3 3 1 15 8 10 6 3 1 19 8 1998 Did not qualify 10 7 0 3 16 9 2002 Round of 16 13th 4 1 2 1 5 5 10 8 2 0 20 3 2006 Round of 16 14th 4 1 2 1 3 4 10 8 0 2 30 4 2010 Did not qualify 10 5 3 2 13 5 2014 12 6 2 4 21 18 2018 Quarter-finals 7th 5 3 0 2 6 4 12 7 2 3 27 9 2022 Did not qualify 10 6 0 4 13 8 2026 To be determined To be determined Total Best: Runners-up 12/22 51 19 13 19 80 73 141 86 21 34 280 129
UEFA European Championship Swedish supporters during UEFA Euro 2008 . Sweden at the UEFA Euro 2012 . UEFA European Championship record Qualification record Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA Pld W D L GF GA 1960 Did not enter Did not enter 1964 Did not qualify 6 2 3 1 8 7 1968 6 2 1 3 9 12 1972 6 2 2 2 3 5 1976 6 3 0 3 8 9 1980 6 1 2 3 9 13 1984 8 5 1 2 14 5 1988 8 4 2 2 12 5 1992 Semi-finals 3rd 4 2 1 1 6 5 Qualified as hosts 1996 Did not qualify 8 2 3 3 9 10 2000 Group stage 14th 3 0 1 2 2 4 8 7 1 0 10 1 2004 Quarter-finals 7th 4 1 3 0 8 3 8 5 2 1 19 3 2008 Group stage 10th 3 1 0 2 3 4 12 8 2 2 23 9 2012 Group stage 11th 3 1 0 2 5 5 10 8 0 2 31 11 2016 Group stage 20th 3 0 1 2 1 3 12 6 4 2 19 12 2020 Round of 16 10th 4 2 1 1 5 4 10 6 3 1 23 9 2024 Did not qualify 8 3 1 4 14 12 Total Best: Semi-finals 7/17 24 7 7 10 30 28 122 64 27 31 211 123
UEFA Nations League
Olympic Games Sweden at the 1912 Summer Olympics . Football at the Summer Olympics was first played officially in 1908 . The Olympiads between 1896 and 1980 were only open for amateur players. The 1984 and 1988 tournaments were open to players with no appearances in the FIFA World Cup . After the 1988 Olympics, the football event was changed into a tournament for U23 teams with a maximum of three older players. See Sweden Olympic football team for competition record from 1984 until present day.
Olympic Games record Qualification record Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA Pld W D L GF GA 1908 Fourth place 4th 2 0 0 2 1 14 No qualification 1912 Round of 16 9th 2 0 0 2 3 5 No qualification 1920 Quarter-finals 6th 3 1 0 2 14 7 1924 Third place 3rd 5 3 1 1 18 5 No qualification 1928 Did not enter No qualification 1936 Round of 16 9th 1 0 0 1 2 3 1948 Champions 1st 4 4 0 0 22 3 No qualification 1952 Third place 3rd 4 3 0 1 9 8 No qualification 1956 Did not enter Did not enter 1960 1964 Did not qualify 2 0 1 1 2 6 1968 Did not enter Did not enter 1972 1976 1980 Total 1 title 7/15 21 11 1 9 69 45 2 0 1 1 2 6
Minor tournaments Minor tournaments record Tournament Round Position Pld W D L GF GA 1939 DBU 50 years Semi-finals 3rd 1 0 0 1 0 1 1947 FBF 40 years Winners 1st 2 2 0 0 11 2 1952 NFF 50 years Runners-up 2nd 2 1 0 1 3 3 1954 SvFF 50 years Winners 1st 2 2 0 0 9 0 1957 FBF 50 years Winners 1st 2 1 1 0 5 1 1981 Lahti Cup Runners-up 2nd 2 1 0 1 5 4 1988 Maspalomas Winners 1st 2 2 0 0 5 1 1988 West Berlin Winners 1st 2 1 1 0 3 1 1989 DBU 100 years Runners-up 2nd 2 1 0 1 2 7 1991 Scania 100 Third place 3rd 2 1 0 1 6 3 1994 Joe Robbie Cup Winners 1st 2 1 1 0 3 1 1994 Nordic Cup Winners 1st 2 1 0 1 2 1 1995 Umbro Cup Third place 3rd 3 0 2 1 5 6 1996 Carlsberg Cup Winners 1st 2 1 1 0 2 1 1997 King's Cup Winners 1st 4 3 1 0 6 1 2001 King's Cup Winners 1st 4 2 2 0 9 3 2003 King's Cup Winners 1st 4 3 1 0 12 4 2004 Carlsberg Cup Third place 3rd 2 1 0 1 3 3 2011 Cyprus Cup Runners-up 2nd 2 1 1 0 3 1 2013 King's Cup Winners 1st 2 1 1 0 4 1 Total 12 titles 46 26 12 8 98 45
Head-to-head records The following table shows Sweden's all-time international record.[ 3] The abandoned match against Denmark on 2 June 2007 here counts as a draw.
Statistics updated as of 25 March 2024.
Matches not counted as international matches by FIFA This is a list of matches that the Swedish FA counts as official international matches, but not FIFA .[ 4] All these matches are included in the table above.
Sweden 1–6 England Amateurs (Gothenburg , Sweden ; 8 September 1908) England Amateurs 7–0 Sweden (Kingston upon Hull , England ; 6 November 1909) Sweden 1–5 England Amateurs (Solna , Sweden ; 10 June 1914) Sweden 4–1 Norway (Tampere , Finland ; 21 July 1952) Sweden 3–1 Austria (Helsinki , Finland ; 23 July 1952) Hungary 6–0 Sweden (Helsinki , Finland ; 28 July 1952) Sweden 2–0 Germany (Helsinki , Finland ; 1 August 1952) Hungary 4–0 Sweden (Budapest , Hungary ; 4 May 1963) Sweden 2–2 Hungary (Gothenburg , Sweden ; 27 October 1963) Sweden 4–2 Norway (Lahti , Finland ; 28 February 1981) Sweden 4–0 United States (Jönköping , Sweden ; 23 February 1984) Romania 0–2 Sweden (Bangkok , Thailand ; 9 February 1997) Sweden 1–0 Denmark (La Manga , Spain ; 31 January 2000) South Africa 1–1 Sweden (Nelspruit , South Africa ; 22 January 2011) Cyprus 0–2 Sweden (Nicosia , Cyprus ; 8 February 2011) Qatar 0–5 Sweden (Doha , Qatar ; 23 January 2012) Sweden 1–1 (4–1 p) North Korea (Chiang Mai , Thailand ; 23 January 2013) Sweden 3–0 Finland (Chiang Mai , Thailand ; 26 January 2013) Sweden 0–1 Finland (Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates ; 19 January 2015) Sweden 1–1 Estonia (Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates ; 6 January 2016) Finland 0–3 Sweden (Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates ; 10 January 2016) Sweden 1–2 Ivory Coast (Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates ; 8 January 2017) Sweden 6–0 Slovakia (Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates ; 12 January 2017) Sweden 1–1 Estonia (Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates ; 7 January 2018) Sweden 1–0 Denmark (Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates ; 11 January 2018)-->
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