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	8 (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	11 (First in 1994)
Best result	1st (1994, 1998, 2000, 2002)
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Sweden national handball team

Medal record
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	Team
	1996 Atlanta	Team
	2000 Sydney	Team
	2012 London	Team
World Championship
	1954 Sweden
	1958 East Germany
	1990 Czechoslovakia
	1999 Egypt
	1964 Czechoslovakia
	1997 Japan
	2001 France
	1938 Germany
	1961 West Germany
	1993 Sweden
	1995 Iceland
European Championship
	1994 Portugal
	1998 Italy
	2000 Croatia
	2002 Sweden
World Cup Field Handball
	1948 France
	1952 Switzerland
	1959 Austria

The Sweden men's national handball team (Swedish: Sveriges herrlandslag i handboll) is the national handball team of Sweden 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, 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 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. Sweden holds the European records for most medals in international competition (19 medals) as well as reaching the most medal rounds (22 tournaments). Conversely, Sweden has yet to win an Olympic title despite participating in 4 finals (Sweden participated in the 1952 Summer Olympics in a handball demonstration match, defeating Denmark 19-11). 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	Qualified
Total	8/13	0 Titles	48	34	2	12	1,175	984	+191

World Championship

Competitive record at the World Championship World Championship record Year Position GP W D L GS GA +/- 1938 3 3 1 0 2 8 13 −5 1954 1 3 3 0 0 56 36 +20 1958 1 6 6 0 0 138 74 +64 1961 3 6 5 0 1 89 73 +16 1964 2 6 3 0 3 104 90 +14 1967 5 6 4 0 2 118 112 +6 1970 6 6 3 0 3 69 68 +1 1974 10 6 3 0 3 111 113 −2 1978 8 6 2 0 4 121 125 −4 1982 11 7 2 1 4 159 157 +2 1986 4 7 5 0 2 174 153 +21 1990 1 7 6 0 1 177 143 +34 1993 3 7 6 0 1 166 136 +30 1995 3 9 8 0 1 251 201 +50 1997 2 9 7 0 2 253 187 +66 1999 1 9 8 1 0 282 202 +80 2001 2 9 8 0 1 263 207 +56 2003 13 7 5 0 2 204 191 +13 2005 11 9 4 1 4 275 234 +41 2007 Did not qualify 2009 7 9 6 0 3 277 232 +45 2011 4 10 6 0 4 272 241 +31 2013 Did not qualify 2015 10 6 3 1 2 157 133 +24 Total 22/24 153 104 4 45 3724 3121 +603

Record against other teams at the World Championship National Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Algeria 6 6 0 0 162 119 +43 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 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 2 2 0 0 74 40 +34 Czech Republic 3 3 0 0 86 61 +25 Czechoslovakia 6 4 0 2 104 90 +14 Denmark 9 6 0 3 168 156 +12 East Germany 2 1 0 1 34 33 +1 Egypt 5 4 1 0 142 104 +38 Finland 1 1 0 0 27 16 +9 France 9 3 0 6 218 224 −6 Germany* 10 5 0 5 172 171 +1 Hungary 9 6 1 2 217 191 +26 Iceland 6 5 0 1 124 98 +26 Italy 1 1 0 0 19 17 +2 Japan 3 3 0 0 84 59 +25 Kuwait 2 2 0 0 67 41 +26 Lithuania 1 1 0 0 32 20 +12 Morocco 1 1 0 0 33 21 +12 Norway 5 4 0 1 111 94 +17 Poland 6 3 0 3 116 117 -1 Portugal 1 1 0 0 32 25 +7 Romania 7 2 0 5 140 154 −14 Russia 3 1 0 2 66 77 −11 Serbia 2 2 0 0 65 53 +12 Serbia & Montenegro 1 0 1 0 26 26 0 Slovakia 2 2 0 0 65 48 +17 Slovenia 2 1 0 1 57 58 −1 South Korea 6 6 0 0 185 139 +46 Soviet Union 3 1 0 2 56 59 -3 Spain 8 4 0 4 199 181 +18 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** 8 5 1 2 169 158 +11 Total 153 104 4 45 3724 3121 +603 *Germany's results also include West Germany. **Yugoslavia's results also include the Federal republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003). Results updated April 11, 2016.

European Championship

European Championship record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1994	Champion	1	7	7	0	0	172	133
1996	Fourth place	4	7	4	0	3	170	156
1998	Champion	1	7	6	0	1	182	158
2000	Champion	1	7	7	0	0	198	167
2002	Champion	1	8	7	0	1	235	191
2004	7th place	7	7	4	0	3	211	203
2006	Did not qualify
2008	5th	5	7	4	1	2	208	190
2010	Preliminary round	15	3	0	0	3	78	84
2012	Main round	12	6	1	2	3	157	168
2014	Main round	7	6	4	0	2	166	158
2016	8th place	8	7	2	2	3	173	168
Total	11/12	4 titles	72	46	5	21	1939	1776

*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 2016 European Men's Handball Championship.^[1]

Head coach: Ola Lindgren and Staffan Olsson

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Mattias Andersson 29 March 1978 1.85 m 136 0 SG Flensburg-Handewitt 4 CB Markus Olsson 31 March 1990 1.88 m 43 92 Skjern Håndbold 5 RB Linus Persson 16 April 1993 1.90 m 8 4 HK Malmö 6 LW Jonas Källman 17 July 1981 2.00 m 215 623 Pick Szeged 9 LW Jerry Tollbring 13 September 1995 1.82 m 1 0 IFK Kristianstad 10 RW Niclas Ekberg 23 December 1988 1.91 m 132 530 THW Kiel 11 LB Lukas Nilsson 16 November 1996 1.92 m 15 45 Ystads IF 14 CB Jesper Konradsson 4 June 1994 1.84 m 18 27 Alingsås HK 18 P Tobias Karlsson 4 June 1981 1.96 m 168 81 SG Flensburg-Handewitt 19 RB Johan Jakobsson 12 February 1987 1.95 m 100 213 SG Flensburg-Handewitt 20 GK Mikael Appelgren 6 September 1989 1.91 m 32 0 Rhein-Neckar Löwen 24 LW Fredrik Petersen 27 August 1983 1.88 m 145 406 Füchse Berlin 28 LB Philip Stenmalm 3 March 1992 1.98 m 23 31 CB Logroño 29 RB Andreas Cederholm 4 May 1990 1.86 m 31 58 IFK Kristianstad 31 LB Viktor Östlund 19 January 1992 1.98 m 36 94 Eskilstuna Guif 32 RW Mattias Zachrisson 22 August 1990 1.79 m 71 115 Füchse Berlin 35 P Andreas Nilsson 12 April 1990 1.97 m 92 214 MVM Veszprém 36 P Jesper Nielsen 30 August 1989 2.00 m 61 69 Füchse Berlin

Matches and goals are correct as of 31 January 2016.

Notable 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

Notable coaches

• Bengt Johansson

Kit supplier

From 2004 to 2015 Sweden's kits were supplied by Adidas. Since 2016 they are supplied by Kempa

References

1. 2016 European Championship roster

External links

• Official website
• IHF profile