Sweden national handball team

Sweden
Information
Association	Swedish Handball Association (Svenska Handbollförbundet)
Coach	Ola Lindgren Staffan Olsson
Most caps	Magnus Wislander (384)
Most goals	Magnus Wislander (1185)
Colours
Home Away
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	6 (first in 1972)
Best result	2nd (1992, 1996, 2000, 2012)
World Championship
Appearances	22 (first in 1938)
Best result	1st (1954, 1958, 1990, 1999)
European Championship
Appearances	10 (first in 1994)
Best result	1st (1994, 1998, 2000, 2002)
Last updated on Unknown.

The Sweden national handball team is the national handball team of Sweden and is controlled by the Swedish Handball Association. Its most successful periods were under coaches Curt Wadmark (1949-1967) and Bengt Johansson (1988–2004), and from 1996 through 2002 qualified for a record 8 championship finals in a row (World championships, European championships, Olympic games). The team under Bengt Johansson, nicknamed Bengan Boys in Sweden, is regarded as one of the finest national teams in the history of the sport with players like Tomas Svensson, Magnus Wislander and Stefan Lövgren. Sweden is the most successful nation at the European Men's Handball Championship with 4 gold medals, and has won the most medals in the history of the World Men's Handball Championship with a total tally of 4 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze medals. Conversely, Sweden has yet to win an Olympic title despite participating in 4 finals. The team has also won the World Cup 3 times, the Super Cup 2 times, and were Intercontinental Cup winners in 2000.

Competitive record

     Champions       Runners-up       Third Place       Fourth Place  

Olympic Games

Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1936 Berlin	Did not enter
Not held from 1948 to 1968
1972 Munich	Match for 7th place	7th of 16	6	2	2	2	82	87	−5
1976 Montreal	Did not qualify
1980 Moscow
1984 Los Angeles	Match for 5th place	5th of 12	6	4	0	2	145	134	+11
1988 Seoul	Match for 5th place	5th of 12	6	4	0	2	133	109	+24
1992 Barcelona	Runners-up	2nd of 12	7	6	0	1	165	130	+35
1996 Atlanta	Runners-up	2nd of 12	7	6	0	1	182	141	+41
2000 Sydney	Runners-up	2nd of 12	8	7	0	1	240	197	+43
2004 Athens	Did not qualify
2008 Beijing
2012 London	Runners-up	2nd of 12	8	5	0	3	228	186	+42
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Not yet qualified
Total	7/12	0 Titles	48	34	2	12	1,175	984	+191

World Championship

Competitive record at the World Championship Year Position GP W D L GS GA +/- Germany 1938 3rd 3 1 0 2 8 13 −5 Sweden 1954 1st 3 3 0 0 56 36 +20 Germany 1958 1st 6 6 0 0 136 74 +62 Germany 1961 3rd 6 5 0 1 89 73 +16 Czech Republic 1964 2nd 6 3 0 3 104 90 +14 Sweden 1967 5th 6 4 0 2 118 109 +9 France 1970 6th 6 3 0 3 69 68 +1 East Germany 1974 11th 3 1 0 2 44 53 −9 Denmark 1978 8th 6 2 0 4 121 125 −4 Germany 1982 11th 7 2 1 4 159 157 +2 Switzerland 1986 4th 7 5 0 2 174 153 +21 Czechoslovakia 1990 1st 7 6 0 1 177 143 +34 Sweden 1993 3rd 7 6 0 1 166 136 +30 Iceland 1995 3rd 9 8 0 1 251 201 +50 Japan 1997 2nd 9 7 0 2 253 187 +66 Egypt 1999 1st 9 8 1 0 283 204 +79 France 2001 2nd 9 8 0 1 263 217 +46 Portugal 2003 13th 7 5 0 2 204 191 +13 Tunisia 2005 11th 9 4 1 4 275 234 +41 Germany 2007 Did not qualify Croatia 2009 7th 9 6 0 3 277 232 +45 Sweden 2011 4th 10 6 0 4 272 241 +31 Spain 2013 Did not qualify Qatar 2015 10th 6 3 1 2 157 133 +24 Total 22/24 150 102 4 44 3656 3070 +586

Record against other teams at the World Championship Results updated 16 June 2014. National Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Algeria 5 5 0 0 135 110 +25 Argentina 4 3 0 1 120 90 +30 Australia 2 2 0 0 98 33 +65 Austria 1 0 0 1 4 5 −1 Belarus 1 1 0 0 29 28 +1 Brazil 2 2 0 0 58 42 +16 Bulgaria 2 2 0 0 52 35 +17 Denmark 9 6 0 3 168 156 +12 Chile 1 1 0 0 28 18 +10 China 1 1 0 0 42 21 +21 Croatia 4 1 0 3 107 111 −4 Cuba 1 1 0 0 33 26 +7 Czech republic* 8 6 0 2 154 129 +25 East Germany 1 1 0 0 11 9 +2 Egypt 4 4 0 0 117 79 +38 Finland 1 1 0 0 27 16 +9 France 8 3 0 5 193 197 −4 Germany** 10 4 0 6 178 181 −3 Hungary 9 6 1 2 217 181 +36 Iceland 5 4 0 1 100 92 +8 Italy 1 1 0 0 19 17 +2 Japan 3 3 0 0 84 59 +25 Kuwait 1 1 0 0 37 22 +15 Lituania 1 1 0 0 32 20 +12 Marocco 1 1 0 0 33 21 +12 Norway 5 4 0 1 111 94 +17 Poland 5 3 0 2 97 93 +4 Portugal 1 1 0 0 33 25 +8 Romania 7 2 0 5 141 154 −13 Russia*** 6 2 0 4 122 136 −14 Serbia**** 6 4 2 0 161 147 +14 Slovakia 2 2 0 0 65 48 +17 Slovenia 2 0 0 2 52 61 −9 South Korea 6 6 0 0 177 134 +43 Spain 7 3 0 4 163 151 +12 Switzerland 3 3 0 0 70 52 +18 Ukraine 1 1 0 0 34 20 +14 USA 1 1 0 0 32 16 +16 Yugoslavia 5 3 0 2 101 92 +9 Total 143 96 3 44 3343 2899 +444 *The results of the Czech republic also include Czecoslovakia. **Germany's results also include West Germany. ***Russia's results also include the Soviet union. ****Serbia's results also include the Federal republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003) and Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006)

European Championship

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
Portugal 1994	Champion	1	7	7	0	0	172	133
Spain 1996	Fourth place	4	7	4	0	3	170	156
Italy 1998	Champion	1	7	6	0	1	182	158
Croatia 2000	Champion	1	7	7	0	0	198	167
Sweden 2002	Champion	1	8	7	0	1	235	191
Slovenia 2004	7th/8th place	7	7	4	0	3	211	203
Switzerland 2006	Did not qualify
Norway 2008	5th/6th place	5	7	4	1	2	208	190
Austria 2010	Preliminary round	15	3	0	0	3	78	84
Serbia 2012	Main round	12	6	1	2	3	157	168
Denmark 2014	Main round	7	6	4	0	2	166	158
Total	10/11	4 titles	65	44	3	18	1766	1608

*Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty throws.

**Gold background color indicates that the tournament was won. Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Team

Current squad

This is the squad for the 2015 World Men's Handball Championship.^[1]

Head coach: Ola Lindgren / Staffan Olsson

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Mattias Andersson (1978-03-29) 29 March 1978 1.85 m 110 0 Flensburg-Handewitt 2 RB Magnus Persson (1990-12-17) 17 December 1990 1.92 m 20 27 VfL Gummersbach 4 LB Marcus Olsson (1990-03-31) 31 March 1990 1.86 m 17 45 IFK Kristianstad 5 RB Kim Andersson (1982-08-21) 21 August 1982 1.99 m 209 751 KIF Kolding København 6 LW Jonas Källman (1981-07-17) 17 July 1981 2.00 m 187 551 Pick Szeged 8 CB Lukas Karlsson (1982-05-21) 21 May 1982 1.78 m 80 160 KIF Kolding København 10 RW Niclas Ekberg (1988-12-23) 23 December 1988 1.91 m 104 432 THW Kiel 18 P Tobias Karlsson (c) (1981-06-04) 4 June 1981 1.96 m 143 79 Flensburg-Handewitt 21 CB Patrik Fahlgren (1985-06-27) 27 June 1985 1.88 m 43 62 MT Melsungen 22 GK Johan Sjöstrand (1987-02-26) 26 February 1987 1.95 m 88 0 THW Kiel 24 LW Fredrik Petersen (1983-08-27) 27 August 1983 1.88 m 118 332 Füchse Berlin 26 RW Anton Halén (1990-11-28) 28 November 1990 1.92 m 10 22 Frisch Auf Göppingen 27 P Niclas Barud (1988-03-22) 22 March 1988 1.96 m 30 16 Aalborg 31 LB Viktor Östlund (1992-01-19) 19 January 1992 1.98 m 7 13 Eskilstuna Guif 32 RW Mattias Zachrisson (1990-08-22) 22 August 1990 1.79 m 53 85 Füchse Berlin 35 P Andreas Nilsson (1990-04-12) 12 April 1990 1.97 m 65 155 MKB Veszprém 36 P Jesper Nielsen (1989-08-30) 30 August 1989 2.00 m 35 30 Füchse Berlin

Famous past players

• Per Carlén
• Björn "Lurch" Andersson
• Bengt Johansson
• Stefan Lövgren
• Mats Olsson
• Staffan Olsson
• Magnus Wislander
• Ljubomir Vranjes
• Pierre Thorsson
• Magnus Andersson
• Ola Lindgren
• Erik Hajas
• Johan Petersson
• Peter Gentzel

Famous coaches

• Bengt Johansson

Kit supplier

Since 2004, Sweden's kits have been supplied by Adidas.

References

External links

• Official website
• IHF profile

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