Sweden national under-23 football team

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Sweden Under-23
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s) Blågult (The Blue-Yellow)
Association Svenska Fotbollförbundet (SvFF)
Confederation UEFA (Europe)
Head coach Håkan Ericson
First colours
Second colours
First international
UEFA
 Denmark 3–2 Sweden Sweden
(Esbjerg, Denmark; 22 June 1952)
Olympics
Sweden Sweden 0–0 Paraguay 
(Barcelona, Spain; 26 July 1992)
Olympics
Appearances 2 (First in 1992)
Best result Quarter-finals: 1992

The Sweden national under-23 football team (also known as Sweden Olympic football team from 1992) is the football team representing Sweden in Olympics and is controlled by the Swedish Football Association. Between 1952 and 1976, the Swedish U23 team was the main Swedish national youth team and represented Sweden in the UEFA European Under-23 Championship. Sweden made their first and only European Under-23 Championship appearance in 1972 and was knocked out in the quarter-finals. In 1976 the European Under-23 Championship was changed to be an Under-21 competition, so the Swedish U23 team became defunct and was replaced by the Sweden national under-21 football team.

In 1992, when the Olympic football tournament changed to be an Under-23 competition the Swedish U23 team came back to life. Sweden made their first Olympic appearance in 1992 and was knocked out in the quarter-finals. The qualification to the Olympics for the European teams is the European Under-21 Championship so the Swedish U23 team doesn't play any qualification matches. In 1992 the team was managed by Nisse Andersson and in 2016 the team will be managed by Håkan Ericson.

Competitive record

Challenge Cup U-23

This was competed for on a basis similar to a boxing title belt. The holders played a randomly chosen opponent for the championship.

Date Winners Score Runners-up Venue
6 November 1969  Yugoslavia 2–0 Sweden Sweden Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia

UEFA European U-23 Championship

UEFA European Under-23 Championship record UEFA European Under-23 Championship qualification record
Year Round Position Pld W D * L GF GA Pld W D L GF GA
1972 Quarter-final 6th 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 3 0 1 8 2
1974 Did not qualify 4 2 1 1 6 5
1976 4 2 1 1 6 6
Total Best: Quarter-final 1/3 2 1 0 1 2 3 12 7 2 3 20 13
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
**Gold background color indicates that the tournament was won.
***Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Olympic Games

Football at the Summer Olympics was first played officially in 1908. The Olympiads between 1896 and 1980 was 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 national football team for competition record from 1908 until 1988.

Olympic Games record Olympic Games qualification record **
Year Round Position Pld W D * L GF GA Pld W D L GF GA
Spain 1992 Quarter-final 7th 4 1 2 1 6 3 12 7 3 2 21 7
United States 1996 Did not qualify 8 5 1 2 15 4
Australia 2000 8 2 0 6 7 15
Greece 2004 15 8 4 3 31 21
China 2008 4 3 0 1 8 6
United Kingdom 2012 10 6 2 2 17 10
Brazil 2016 Qualified 15 8 3 4 31 21
Japan 2020 To be determined
Total Best: Quarter-final 2/7 4 1 2 1 6 3 72 39 13 20 130 84
*Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
**Includes both qualification phase and final tournament of UEFA European Under-21 Championship.
***Gold background color indicates that the tournament was won.
****Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

1992 Summer Olympics

Fixtures

1992 Summer Olympics squad

The following 20 players were called up for the 1992 Summer Olympics.[1]

Caps, goals, ages and club information updated as of 8 August 1992.

0#0 Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Jan Ekholm (1969-12-03)3 December 1969 (aged 22) 4 0 Sweden IFK Sundsvall
12 1GK Håkan Svensson (1970-01-20)20 January 1970 (aged 22) 0 0 Sweden Halmstads BK
2 2DF Magnus Johansson (1971-11-10)10 November 1971 (aged 20) 4 0 Sweden IFK Göteborg
3 2DF Joachim Björklund (1971-03-15)15 March 1971 (aged 21) 4 0 Norway SK Brann
4 2DF Filip Apelstav (1971-09-18)18 September 1971 (aged 20) 1 0 Sweden Västra Frölunda IF
7 2DF Patrik Andersson (captain) (1971-08-18)18 August 1971 (aged 20) 4 1 Sweden Malmö FF
14 2DF Jörgen Moberg (1971-06-02)2 June 1971 (aged 21) 0 0 Sweden Östers IF
15 2DF Björn Lilius (1970-06-02)2 June 1970 (aged 22) 3 0 Sweden Helsingborgs IF
16 2DF Henrik Nilsson (1972-07-25)25 July 1972 (aged 20) 0 0 Sweden Malmö FF
5 3MF Niclas Alexandersson (1971-12-29)29 December 1971 (aged 20) 3 0 Sweden Halmstads BK
6 3MF Håkan Mild (1971-06-14)14 June 1971 (aged 21) 4 1 Sweden IFK Göteborg
8 3MF Stefan Landberg (1970-05-05)5 May 1970 (aged 22) 4 0 Sweden Östers IF
9 3MF Christer Fursth (1970-07-06)6 July 1970 (aged 22) 4 0 Sweden Örebro SK
13 3MF Jesper Jansson (1971-01-08)8 January 1971 (aged 21) 3 0 Sweden Östers IF
17 3MF Anders Andersson (1974-03-15)15 March 1974 (aged 18) 0 0 Sweden Malmö FF
10 4FW Jonny Rödlund (1971-12-22)22 December 1971 (aged 20) 4 2 Sweden IFK Norrköping
11 4FW Tomas Brolin (1969-11-29)29 November 1969 (aged 22) 4 2 Italy Parma
18 4FW Pascal Simpson (1971-05-04)4 May 1971 (aged 21) 1 0 Sweden AIK
19 4FW Niklas Gudmundsson (1972-02-29)29 February 1972 (aged 20) 3 0 Sweden Halmstads BK
20 4FW Jonas Axeldal (1970-09-02)2 September 1970 (aged 21) 2 0 Sweden Malmö FF

See also

References

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