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The Sweden women's national football team (Swedish: Svenska damfotbollslandslaget), nicknamed Blågult ("The Blue-Yellow"), represents Sweden at international women's association football competitions. It was established in 1973 and is governed by the Swedish Football Association.
Damallsvenskan is the national competition for women footballers in Sweden, a division consisting of 12 teams, who assigns the national champion of Sweden. Damallsvenskan is the first ever professional league for women's football in the world.
Sjöström earned a spot on the Swedish Swim Team for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, where she finished 27th in the preliminary heats of the 100 metre butterfly with a time of 59.08 and 29th in the preliminary heats of the 100 metre backstroke with a time of 1:02.38, failing to advance to the semi-finals in both races.
The Sweden women's national football team has represented Sweden at the FIFA Women's World Cup on nine occasions in 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023. There were runners up once and four times bronze medalists: in 1991, in 2011, in 2019 and in 2023.
Sweden's Kosovare Asllani is not having trash talk about the U.S. women's team after its World Cup ouster. Swedish Player Says She Told U.S. Reporter To Stop Talking S**t About American Soccer ...
The Swedish Bikini Team was a group of American female models who appeared in an advertising campaign for Old Milwaukee beer. These commercials ran for several months in 1991 in the United States, [1] playing with American stereotypes of Scandinavian women being blonde and having big breasts. The premise of the commercials was that a group of ...
The Damallsvenskan (Swedish: [dɑːmˈâlːˌsvɛnːskan]; lit. ' Women's Allsvenskan '), known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, [1] is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. [2] It is one of the best women's leagues in the world, and was founded in 1988. The division consists of a league of 14 teams. [3]
The team was established in 1970, as a section under multi-sports club Hammarby IF, making it one the pioneers in Swedish women's football. [5] [6] Christer Molander is credited as being the founding force behind the establishment of a women's team within the club, and he also worked as head coach for the first five years. [5]