Sweden national football team records and statistics

The following is a list of the Sweden national football team's competitive records and statistics.

Honours

Major titles

• FIFA World Cup
  • Runner-up (1): 1958
  • Third place (2): 1950, 1994
  • Fourth place (1): 1938
• UEFA European Championship
  • Semi-final (1): 1992
• Olympic football tournament
  • Gold Medal (1): 1948
  • Bronze Medal (2): 1924, 1952

Minor titles

• Nordic Football Championship
  • Winners (9): 1933–36, 1937–47, 1948–51, 1952–55, 1956–59, 1960–63, 1964–67, 1968–71, 1972–77

Individual records

Player records

As of 29 March 2022

Players in bold are still active with Sweden.

Most capped players

Top goalscorers

Age-related records

Age-related records of the Swedish national football team.

Oldest player

40 years, 5 months and 26 days – Zlatan Ibrahimović (0–2 against Poland on 29 March 2022)

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

21 years, 1 month and 29 days – Zlatan Ibrahimović (from 31 January 2001 until 29 March 2022)

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

Team records

Competition records

  Champions    Runners-up    Third place    Fourth place  0000 Tournament held on home soil  

FIFA World Cup

UEFA European Championship

UEFA Nations League

Olympic Games

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.

Nordic Football Championship

Minor tournaments

Head-to-head records

The following table shows Sweden's all-time international record. 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. 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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