List of Sweden national football team managers
Encyclopedia
This is a complete list of Sweden national football team managers, football managers who have coached the Sweden national football team
. The list includes the chairmen of the Swedish Football Association
International Selection Committee from 1908 to 1961 which acted as national team managers, and the actual national team managers from 1962 and on. They are listed in chronological order, their total national team scores and any qualifications to the finals of the World Cup
, European Championship
or Olympic Games
are included. A game lost after a penalty shootout
is counted as a draw, but a game lost after extra time is counted as a loss.
As of 11 October 2011
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!Name!!National
team career!!M!!W!!D!!L!!GF!!GA!!World
Cups
!!European
Ch-ships
!!Olympic
Games
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|Ludvig Kornerup
||1908||6||1||0||5||17||30|| || ||1908
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|Wilhelm Friberg
||1909–11||6||4||0||2||18||15|| || ||–
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|John Ohlson||1912||5||2||1||2||14||9|| || ||1912
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|Ruben Gelbord||1912–13||7||3||1||3||18||24|| || ||–
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|Hugo Leevin||1914–15||10||4||3||3||22||18|| || ||–
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|Frey Svenson
||1916||5||2||1||2||12||5|| || ||–
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|Anton Johanson
||1917–20||25||8||4||13||48||43|| || ||1920
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|John 'Bill' Pettersson||1921–36||138||73||21||44||399||252||1934
|| ||1924
, 1936
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|Carl Linde||1937||8||2||1||5||17||21||–|| ||–
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|Gustaf Carlsson
||1938–42||24||13||4||7||70||44||1938
|| ||–
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|Selection Committee||1942||3||2||0||1||6||6||–|| ||–
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|Rudolf Kock
||1943–56||110||61||20||29||318||195||1950
|| ||1948
, 1952
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|Eric Person||1957–61||39||26||4||9||100||44||1958
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|Lennart Nyman||1962–65||36||14||13||9||60||44||–||–||–
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|Orvar Bergmark
||1966–70||49||26||11||12||87||59||1970
||–||–
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|Georg Ericson
||1971–79||91||39||20||32||130||109||1974
, 1978
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|Lars Arnesson
||1980–85||59||27||13||19||93||60||–||–||–
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|Olle Nordin
||1986–90||45||23||12||10||71||40||1990
||–||–
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|Nils Andersson||1990||4||2||0||2||5||5||–||–||–
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|Tommy Svensson||1991–97||87||44||23||20||147||88||1994
||1992||–
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|Tommy Söderberg||1998–99||19||11||4||4||17||10||–||–||
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|T. Söderberg & L. Lagerbäck
||2000–04||68||28||25||15||113||61||2002
||2000, 2004||
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|Lars Lagerbäck
||2004–09||38||15||12||11||60||39||2006
||2008||
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|Erik Hamrén||2009–||23||16||4||3||49||18||–||2012||
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Key
Sweden national football team
The Swedish national football team represents Sweden in association football and is controlled by the Swedish Football Association, the governing body for Football in Sweden. Sweden's home ground is Råsunda Stadium in Stockholms län and their head coach is Erik Hamrén. Sweden made their first...
. The list includes the chairmen of the Swedish Football Association
Swedish Football Association
The Swedish Football Association is the governing body of football in Sweden. It organises the football leagues — Allsvenskan for men and Damallsvenskan for women — and the men's and women's national teams. It is based in Solna and is a founding member of both FIFA and UEFA...
International Selection Committee from 1908 to 1961 which acted as national team managers, and the actual national team managers from 1962 and on. They are listed in chronological order, their total national team scores and any qualifications to the finals of the World Cup
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...
, European Championship
UEFA European Football Championship
The UEFA European Football Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA . Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current...
or Olympic Games
Football at the Summer Olympics
Association football, usually known simply as football or soccer, has been included in every Olympiad except 1896 and 1932 as a men's competition sport. Women's football was added to the official programme in 1996.-Early history:...
are included. A game lost after a penalty shootout
Penalty shootout (football)
A penalty shoot-out, referred to as kicks from the penalty mark in the Laws of the Game, is the FIFA official term for a method used in association football to decide which team progresses to the next stage of a tournament following a tied game...
is counted as a draw, but a game lost after extra time is counted as a loss.
As of 11 October 2011
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!Name!!National
team career!!M!!W!!D!!L!!GF!!GA!!World
Cups
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...
!!European
Ch-ships
UEFA European Football Championship
The UEFA European Football Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA . Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current...
!!Olympic
Games
Football at the Summer Olympics
Association football, usually known simply as football or soccer, has been included in every Olympiad except 1896 and 1932 as a men's competition sport. Women's football was added to the official programme in 1996.-Early history:...
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|Ludvig Kornerup
Ludvig Kornerup
Christian Ludvig Kornerup was a football referee and a pioneer in Swedish football. He was born in Denmark and lived in Scotland for a while before moving to Sweden in 1899. He then gained Swedish citizenship in 1905...
||1908||6||1||0||5||17||30|| || ||1908
Football at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Bohemia were forced to withdraw before the tournament started after losing their FIFA membership.-Semi-finals:-Bronze medal match:The French were so shocked by their humiliating 17-1 defeat against Denmark that they declined to play for the bronze medal; therefore, the Netherlands played Sweden for...
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|Wilhelm Friberg
Wilhelm Friberg
Wilhelm Friberg was a Swedish football manager and pioneer in Swedish football. He was one of the founders of Örgryte IS, the dominating club in early Swedish football. He was chairman of the club from the start in 1887 to 1926...
||1909–11||6||4||0||2||18||15|| || ||–
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|John Ohlson||1912||5||2||1||2||14||9|| || ||1912
Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics was one of the 102 events at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. It was the fourth time football was on the Olympic schedule. The tournament was contested between 11 nations, all of them from Europe, with Great Britain winning the gold medals...
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|Ruben Gelbord||1912–13||7||3||1||3||18||24|| || ||–
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|Hugo Leevin||1914–15||10||4||3||3||22||18|| || ||–
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|Frey Svenson
Frey Svenson
Frey Svenson was a Swedish doctor and professor of psychology, born in Vetlanda, Sweden.In the year of 1899 he worked at Upsala Hospital, which at that time was a psychiatric hospital rather than a medical hospital. Here he met the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding. Svenson tried to help Fröding deal...
||1916||5||2||1||2||12||5|| || ||–
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|Anton Johanson
Anton Johanson
Anton Johanson was a Swedish football player and manager as well as a pioneer in Swedish football. He played for IFK Köping and IFK Stockholm during his career. He was one of the founders of the Swedish Football Association, of which he also was secretary from 1905 to 1922 and chairman from 1923...
||1917–20||25||8||4||13||48||43|| || ||1920
Football at the 1920 Summer Olympics
The football at the 1920 Summer Olympics, was one of the 154 events at the 1920 Summer Olympics, held in Antwerp. It was the fifth time football was on the Olympic schedule. The tournament was contested by 14 teams, with host country Belgium winning the gold medals...
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|John 'Bill' Pettersson||1921–36||138||73||21||44||399||252||1934
1934 FIFA World Cup
The 1934 FIFA World Cup was the second FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in Italy from 27 May to 10 June 1934....
|| ||1924
Football at the 1924 Summer Olympics
At the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, Uruguay dominated the Football tournament winning the Gold.-Amateur Status:In 1921, the Belgium Football Association first allowed for payments to players for time lost from work; in the months that followed four other Associations permitted similar...
, 1936
Football at the 1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Olympic football tournament, won by Italy, has come to share an affinity with the political backdrop against which it was being played; in terms of the history of football, however, the tournament suffered as a reaction to the development of the FIFA World Cup.The introduction of the first...
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|Carl Linde||1937||8||2||1||5||17||21||–|| ||–
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|Gustaf Carlsson
Gustaf Carlsson
Gustaf J. Carlsson was a Swedish football player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the Swedish team, which won the bronze medal in the football tournament.-External links:*...
||1938–42||24||13||4||7||70||44||1938
1938 FIFA World Cup
The 1938 FIFA World Cup was the third staging of the World Cup, and was held in France from 4 June to 19 June. Italy retained the championship, beating Hungary 4–2 in the final.-Host selection:...
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|Selection Committee||1942||3||2||0||1||6||6||–|| ||–
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|Rudolf Kock
Putte Kock
Rudolf "Putte" Kock was a Swedish football, ice hockey and bridge player who won a bronze medal in the 1924 Summer Olympics as a football player, being voted the World's best left winger after the tournament...
||1943–56||110||61||20||29||318||195||1950
1950 FIFA World Cup
The 1950 FIFA World Cup, held in Brazil from 24 June to 16 July, was the fourth FIFA World Cup. It was the first World Cup since 1938, the planned 1942 and 1946 competitions having been canceled owing to World War II...
|| ||1948
Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Olympic Games title was won by Sweden, managed by Englishman George Raynor.-Summary:Sweden, whose Football Association forbade professionalism within domestic football, ran out as winners and only used 12 players throughout the entire tournament but there were exceptional performances put...
, 1952
Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Olympic football tournament signalled the arrival of the 'Golden Team'; the 'Magical Magyars': Hungary. Ferenc Puskás, the great Hungarian known as the 'Galloping Major' for his military title, said of the 1952 competition: "It was during the Olympics that our football first started to...
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|Eric Person||1957–61||39||26||4||9||100||44||1958
1958 FIFA World Cup
The 1958 FIFA World Cup, the sixth staging of the World Cup, was hosted by Sweden from 8 June to 29 June. The tournament was won by Brazil, who beat Sweden 5–2 in the final for their first title. To date, this marks the only occasion that a World Cup staged in Europe was not won by a European...
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|Lennart Nyman||1962–65||36||14||13||9||60||44||–||–||–
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|Orvar Bergmark
Orvar Bergmark
Orvar Bergmark , born in Bureå south of Skellefteå, was a Swedish football defender and manager, as well as bandy player....
||1966–70||49||26||11||12||87||59||1970
1970 FIFA World Cup
The 1970 FIFA World Cup, the ninth staging of the World Cup, was held in Mexico, from 31 May to 21 June. The 1970 tournament was the first World Cup hosted in North America, and the first held outside South America and Europe. In a match-up of two-time World Cup champions, the final was won by...
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|Georg Ericson
Georg Ericson
Georg 'Åby' Ericson , also nicknamed Jojje, was a Swedish football player and coach.During his playing career he played for IFK Norrköping in the 1940s. Later he became a coach with IFK Norrköping, and led the Sweden national football team to two FIFA World Cups: 1974 and 1978.-External links:*...
||1971–79||91||39||20||32||130||109||1974
1974 FIFA World Cup
The 1974 FIFA World Cup, the tenth staging of the World Cup, was held in West Germany from 13 June to 7 July. The tournament marked the first time that the current trophy, the FIFA World Cup Trophy, created by the Italian sculptor Silvio Gazzaniga, was awarded...
, 1978
1978 FIFA World Cup
The 1978 FIFA World Cup, the 11th staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in Argentina between 1 June and 25 June. The 1978 World Cup was won by Argentina who beat the Netherlands 3–1 after extra time in the final. This win was the first World Cup title for Argentina, who became the fifth...
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|Lars Arnesson
Lars Arnesson
Lars "Laban" Arnesson was the coach of the Sweden national football team from 1980 to 1986.Arnesson had great success as a trainer for Östers IF and got the job as coach for the national team 1980. He didn't take the team to any World Cup, and resigned in 1986.He also played for Djurgårdens IF in...
||1980–85||59||27||13||19||93||60||–||–||–
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|Olle Nordin
Olle Nordin
Olle Nordin is a Swedish football coach and former player. He was capped 19 times for the national team and played at the 1978 FIFA World Cup, but he is best remembered for his coaching merits. As national team coach, he led Sweden to the 1990 FIFA World Cup — its first World Cup since Nordin...
||1986–90||45||23||12||10||71||40||1990
1990 FIFA World Cup
The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 8 June to 8 July 1990 in Italy, the second country to host the event twice. Teams representing 116 national football associations from all six populated...
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|Nils Andersson||1990||4||2||0||2||5||5||–||–||–
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|Tommy Svensson||1991–97||87||44||23||20||147||88||1994
1994 FIFA World Cup
The 1994 FIFA World Cup, the 15th staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in nine cities across the United States from June 17 to July 17, 1994. The United States was chosen as the host by FIFA on July 4, 1988...
||1992||–
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|Tommy Söderberg||1998–99||19||11||4||4||17||10||–||–||
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|T. Söderberg & L. Lagerbäck
Lars Lagerbäck
Lars Edvin "Lasse" Lagerbäck is a Swedish football manager and former player, currently managing Iceland....
||2000–04||68||28||25||15||113||61||2002
2002 FIFA World Cup
The 2002 FIFA World Cup was the 17th staging of the FIFA World Cup, held in South Korea and Japan from 31 May to 30 June. It was also the first World Cup held in Asia, and the last in which the golden goal rule was implemented. Brazil won the tournament for a record fifth time, beating Germany 2–0...
||2000, 2004||
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|Lars Lagerbäck
Lars Lagerbäck
Lars Edvin "Lasse" Lagerbäck is a Swedish football manager and former player, currently managing Iceland....
||2004–09||38||15||12||11||60||39||2006
2006 FIFA World Cup
The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in July 2000. Teams representing 198 national football associations from all six...
||2008||
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|Erik Hamrén||2009–||23||16||4||3||49||18||–||2012||
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Key
- M – Matches
- W – Wins
- D – Draws
- L – Losses
- GF – Goals for
- GA – Goals against