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Sweden national under 21 football team

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Confederation
  
UEFA (Europe)

Top scorer
  
Ola Toivonen (13)

Appearances
  
8 (first in 1986)

Head coach
  
Håkan Ericson

Most caps
  
Oscar Hiljemark (37)

Home stadium
  
Örjans Vall

Captain
  
Victor Lindelöf

Ground
  
Örjans Vall

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Nickname(s)
  
Blågult (The Blue-Yellow)

Association
  
Swedish Football Association (SvFF)

Competition
  
UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Managers
  
Håkan Ericson, Jens Gustafsson

The Sweden national under-21 football team is the football team representing Sweden in competitions for under-21 year old players and is controlled by the Swedish Football Association. Sweden's home ground is Swedbank Stadion in Malmö and the team is led by Håkan Ericson and his assistant Andreas Pettersson. The Swedish U21 team came into existence, following the realignment of UEFA European Under-23 Championship, which changed to be a Under-21 competition in 1978.

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Sweden made their first European Under-21 Championship appearance in 1986. In 2015, Sweden became champions for the first time. They finished second in 1992 and they also reached the semi-finals in 1990 and 2009. Oscar Hiljemark is the most capped player for the Swedish U21 team, having played 37 caps between 2011 and 2015. Ola Toivonen is the best goalscorer for Sweden U21, having scored 13 goals between 2006 and 2009.

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UEFA European U-21 Championship

*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.

Qualification

Qualifying group stage
Play-off

Sweden won 4–3 on aggregate.

Final tournament

Group stage
Knockout stage

Current squad

The following 21 players were called up for the friendly matches against Serbia on 24 March 2017 and against Czech Republic on 27 March 2017.

Caps and goals updated as of 28 March 2017.

Recent call-ups

The following 30 players have also been called up to the Sweden U21 squad and remain eligible.

Previous squads

  • 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squad
  • 2004 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squad
  • 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squad
  • 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squad
  • Players with most caps and goals

    Updated as of 30 June 2015.

    Top 10 most capped players

    Players in bold text are still available to play for the Swedish U21 team.

    Top 10 goalscorers

    Players in bold text are still available to play for the Swedish U21 team.

    References

    Sweden national under-21 football team Wikipedia