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It was established in 1973 and is governed by the Swedish Football Association. The team has represented Sweden at the FIFA Women's World Cup on nine occasions. They were runners-up in 2003 and bronze medalists in 1991, 2011, 2019, and 2023. Sweden have been to seven Olympic Games, winning silver medals in 2016 and 2021.
Incoming national team coach Thomas Dennerby retained Lindahl and she featured at both the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2008 Olympics in China and UEFA Women's Euro 2009 in Finland. [20] She remained Sweden's number one goalkeeper for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany, where Sweden came third, and the 2012 London Olympics. [21]
Elin Hanna Caroline Jönsson (born 22 November 1977) is a Swedish former football goalkeeper who played for Malmö and Umeå IK of Damallsvenskan and Chicago Red Stars of Women's Professional Soccer (WPS). She played 80 times for the Sweden women's national football team between 1999 and 2009.
Falk played her first game for the senior national team at the 2020 Algarve Cup, in which the three nominated goalkeepers each played one game, in the game against Denmark, which was lost 1-2. During qualifications for the Euro 2022 when regular goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl was injured, Falk was used in the last four qualifying games and kept four ...
She was made fun of by those who thought girls should not play football and was asked when she would quit. [3] She started playing in the goalkeeper position at age 12. [7] She spent two seasons with the club's senior women's team in Division 2 in 2011 and 2012, helping the club secure promotion in the latter campaign.
This category is for footballers who have appeared for the senior Sweden women's national football team (but not players who have only been capped at Under-21 or other junior levels). For men's international players, see category:Sweden men's international footballers.
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 women's international footballers (1 C, 180 P) Pages in category "Swedish women's footballers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 372 total.