Sweden men's national handball team

Sweden men's national handball team
Medal record
Olympic Games
World Championship
European Championship
World Outdoor Championship

Sweden
Sweden
Information
Association	Swedish Handball Association; (Svenska Handbollförbundet)
Coach	Michael Apelgren
Assistant coach	Patrik Fahlgren
Most caps	Magnus Wislander (386)
Most goals	Magnus Wislander (1191)
Colours
1st	2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	10 (First in 1972)
Best result	2nd (1992, 1996, 2000, 2012)
World Championship
Appearances	27 (First in 1938)
Best result	1st (1954, 1958, 1990, 1999)
European Championship
Appearances	15 (First in 1994)
Best result	1st (1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2022)
	Last updated on Unknown.

The Sweden men's national handball team (Swedish: Sveriges herrlandslag i handboll) is Sweden's national team in men's handball and is controlled by the Swedish Handball Association. Its most successful periods were under coaches Curt Wadmark (1948–1967) and Bengt Johansson (1988–2004). 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, Staffan Olsson, Magnus Wislander and Stefan Lövgren. From 1990 through 2002 the team reached the medal round in every championship (6 World Championships, 5 European Championships and 3 Olympic Games, earning 13 medals in total) and qualified for a record 8 championship finals in a row 1996–2002.

Sweden is the most successful nation at the European Men's Handball Championship with 5 titles, and at the World Men's Handball Championship has won a total tally of 12 medals, including 4 gold medals. Conversely, Sweden has yet to win an Olympic title despite participating in 4 finals (Sweden participated in the 1952 Summer Olympics in a demonstration match, defeating Denmark 19–11). The team has also won the World Cup 3 times, the Supercup 2 times, and were Intercontinental Cup winners in 2000.

Honours

Competition				Total
Olympic Games	0	4	0	4
World Championship	4	4	4	12
European Championship	5	1	1	7
Total	9	9	5	23

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	did not qualify
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		2nd of 12	7	6	0	1	182	141	+41
2000 Sydney		2nd of 12	8	7	0	1	240	197	+43
2004 Athens	did not qualify
2008 Beijing	did not qualify
2012 London	Runners-up	2nd of 12	8	5	0	3	228	186	+42
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Group stage	11th of 12	5	1	0	4	132	131	+1
2020 Tokyo	Quarter-finals	5th of 12	6	4	0	2	177	176	+1
2024 Paris	Quarter-finals	7th of 12	6	3	0	3	189	171	+18
2028 Los Angeles	to be determined
2032 Brisbane	to be determined
Total	10/17	0 Titles	65	42	2	21	1673	1362	+211

World Championship

World Championship record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1938 Germany	Third place	3rd of 4	3	1	0	2	8	13	−5
1954 Sweden	Champions	1st of 6	3	3	0	0	56	36	+20
1958 East Germany	Champions	1st of 16	6	6	0	0	138	74	+64
1961 West Germany	Third place	3rd of 12	6	5	0	1	89	73	+16
1964 Czechoslovakia	Runners-up	2nd of 16	6	3	0	3	104	90	+14
1967 Sweden	Match for 5th place	5th of 16	6	4	0	2	118	112	+6
1970 France	Match for 5th place	6th of 16	6	3	0	3	69	68	+1
1974 East Germany	Preliminary round	10th of 16	6	3	0	3	111	113	−2
1978 Denmark	Second round	8th of 16	6	2	0	4	121	125	−4
1982 West Germany	Second round	11th of 16	7	2	1	4	159	157	+2
1986 Switzerland	Fourth place	4th of 16	7	5	0	2	174	153	+21
1990 Czechoslovakia	Champions	1st of 16	7	6	0	1	177	143	+34
1993 Sweden	Third place	3rd of 16	7	6	0	1	166	136	+30
1995 Iceland	Third place	3rd of 24	9	8	0	1	251	201	+50
1997 Japan	Runners-up	2nd of 24	9	7	0	2	253	187	+66
1999 Egypt	Champions	1st of 24	9	8	1	0	282	202	+80
2001 France	Runners-up	2nd of 24	9	8	0	1	263	207	+56
2003 Portugal	Second round	13th of 24	7	5	0	2	204	191	+13
2005 Tunisia	Main round	11th of 24	9	4	1	4	275	234	+41
2007 Germany	did not qualify
2009 Croatia	Main round	7th of 24	9	6	0	3	277	232	+45
2011 Sweden	Fourth place	4th of 24	10	6	0	4	272	241	+31
2013 Spain	did not qualify
2015 Qatar	Round of 16	10th of 24	6	3	1	2	157	133	+24
2017 France	Quarter-finals	6th of 24	7	5	0	2	233	166	+67
2019 Denmark/Germany	Main round	5th of 24	9	7	0	2	273	222	+51
2021 Egypt	Runners-up	2nd of 32	9	6	2	1	276	218	+58
2023 Poland/Sweden	Fourth place	4th of 32	9	7	0	2	299	237	+62
2025 Croatia/Denmark/Norway	Main round	14th of 32	6	2	2	2	195	173	+22
2027 Germany	To be determined
2029 France/Germany
// 2031 Denmark/Iceland/Norway
Total	27/32	4 Titles	193	131	8	54	5000	4137	+863

Euro Tournaments

All teams in these tournaments are European,all World and Olympic Champions, and top 7 from World Championships and Olympics were participating. They were mini European championships at the time, till 1994 when official European Championship started.

EURO World Cup tournament Sweden

1971 : 6th place
1974 : 8th place
1979 : 8th place
1984 : 4th place
1988 : 3rd place
1992 : Champions

EURO Super Cup tournament Germany

1979 : 6th place
1981 : 6th place
1983 : 5th place
1985 : 8th place
1987 : 6th place
1989 : 5th place
1991 : 3rd place
1993 : Champions

European Championship

European Championship record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1994 Portugal	Champions	1st of 12	7	7	0	0	172	133	+39
1996 Spain	Fourth place	4th of 12	7	4	0	3	170	156	+14
1998 Italy	Champions	1st of 12	7	6	0	1	182	158	+24
2000 Croatia	Champions	1st of 12	7	7	0	0	198	167	+31
2002 Sweden	Champions	1st of 16	8	7	0	1	235	191	+44
2004 Slovenia	Main round	7th of 16	7	4	0	3	211	203	+8
2006 Switzerland	did not qualify
2008 Norway	Match for 5th place	5th of 16	7	4	1	2	208	190	+18
2010 Austria	Preliminary round	15th of 16	3	0	0	3	78	84	−6
2012 Serbia	Main round	12th of 16	6	1	2	3	157	168	−11
2014 Denmark	Main round	7th of 16	6	4	0	2	166	158	+8
2016 Poland	Match for 7th place	8th of 16	7	2	2	3	173	168	+5
2018 Croatia	Runners-up	2nd of 16	8	4	0	4	218	216	+2
2020 Austria/Norway/Sweden	Main round	7th of 24	7	4	0	3	182	169	+13
2022 Hungary/Slovakia	Champions	1st of 24	9	7	1	1	252	221	+31
2024 Germany	Third place	3rd of 24	9	6	0	3	282	255	+27
2026 Denmark/Norway/Sweden	Qualified as co-host
2028 Portugal/Spain/Switzerland	To be determined
Total	15/16	5 titles	105	67	6	32	2884	2637	+247

*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

Roster for the 2025 World Men's Handball Championship.^[1]^[2]

Head coach: Michael Apelgren

No.	Pos.	Name	Date of birth (age)	Height	App.	Goals	Club
2	LB	Jonathan Carlsbogård	(1995-04-19) 19 April 1995 (age 29)	1.95 m	79	156	Barça
6	P	Felix Möller	(2002-09-04) 4 September 2002 (age 22)	1.97 m	22	29	Aalborg Håndbold
10	RW	Niclas Ekberg	(1988-12-23) 23 December 1988 (age 36)	1.91 m	212	845	Ystads IF
12	GK	Andreas Palicka	(1986-07-10) 10 July 1986 (age 38)	1.89 m	168	19	Paris Saint-Germain
13	RW	Sebastian Karlsson	(1995-01-21) 21 January 1995 (age 30)	1.78 m	25	72	Montpellier Handball
15	LW	Hampus Wanne	(1993-12-10) 10 December 1993 (age 31)	1.85 m	106	434	Barça
16	GK	Tobias Thulin	(1995-07-05) 5 July 1995 (age 29)	1.98 m	69	0	Pick Szeged
22	LW	Lucas Pellas	(1995-08-28) 28 August 1995 (age 29)	1.83 m	80	256	Montpellier Handball
23	RB	Albin Lagergren	(1992-09-11) 11 September 1992 (age 32)	1.86 m	120	356	SC Magdeburg
24	CB	Jim Gottfridsson	(1992-09-02) 2 September 1992 (age 32)	1.91 m	164	517	SG Flensburg-Handewitt
28	CB	Jonathan Edvardsson	(1997-04-07) 7 April 1997 (age 27)	1.90 m	29	18	TSV Hannover-Burgdorf
29	RB	Edwin Aspenbäck	(2000-08-07) 7 August 2000 (age 24)	1.96 m	4	3	TTH Holstebro
33	RB	Lukas Sandell	(1997-02-03) 3 February 1997 (age 28)	1.93 m	66	166	Telekom Veszprém
35	P	Andreas Nilsson	(1990-04-12) 12 April 1990 (age 34)	1.97 m	155	351	Önnereds HK
42	LB	Eric Johansson	(2000-06-28) 28 June 2000 (age 24)	1.97 m	40	110	THW Kiel
45	LB	Olle Forsell Schefvert	(1993-08-13) 13 August 1993 (age 31)	1.96 m	7	4	Rhein Neckar Löwen
51	GK	Fabian Norsten	(2000-07-11) 11 July 2000 (age 24)	1.96 m	7	0	Aalborg Håndbold

Notable players

Coaches

#	Coaches	Period
1	Herbert Johansson	1938–1948
2	Curt Wadmark	1948–1967
3	Roland Mattsson	1967–1974
4	Bertil Andersén	1974–1979
5	Ingemar Eriksson	1979–1980
6	Caj-Åke Andersson	1980–1982
7	Roger "Ragge" Carlsson	1982–1988
8	Bengt "Bengan" Johansson	1988–2004
9	Ingemar Linnéll	2004–2008
10	Ola Lindgren & Staffan Olsson	2008–2016
11	Kristján Andrésson	2016–2020
12	Glenn Solberg	2020–

World and European records

World records

Longest undefeated streak in international championships (25 matches, Euro 1998 - 2000 Olympic Games).
Longest medal round streak in major championships (14 tournaments, 1990–2002).
Longest medal round streak in the World Championships (7 tournaments, 1986–2001).
8 consecutive finals in international championships (1996–2002).
Most World Championship finals (8 - shared with France).

European records

3 consecutive gold medals at the European championship (1998, 2000, 2002).

Other merits

First European nation to win a major championship title three times in a row (Euro 1998, Euro 2000, Euro 2002).
3 x winners of the World Cup (1992, 1996, 2004)
2 x winners of the Supercup (1993, 2005)
1 x winners of the Intercontinental Cup (2000)
The first IHF World Champion (1954 - indoor handball) (Germany's 1938 victory was under the IAHF).
The first EHF European Champion (1994).
Defeated Denmark 18–12 in Copenhagen in the first ever international indoor handball game (8 March 1935).

Kit supplier

From 2004 to 2015 Sweden's kits were supplied by Adidas, and 2016–2019 by Kempa. The current supplier is Craft.

References

^ "Olle Forsell Schefvert tar plats i VM-truppen" (in Swedish). handbollslandslaget.se. 18 December 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
^ "Team Roster Sweden" (PDF). ihf.info. 15 January 2025. Retrieved 16 January 2025.

External links

[1] "Olle Forsell Schefvert tar plats i VM-truppen" (in Swedish). handbollslandslaget.se. 18 December 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.

[2] "Team Roster Sweden" (PDF). ihf.info. 15 January 2025. Retrieved 16 January 2025.

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