The Most Famous
COACHES from Sweden
This page contains a list of the greatest Swedish Coaches. The pantheon dataset contains 471 Coaches, 5 of which were born in Sweden. This makes Sweden the birth place of the 19th most number of Coaches behind Switzerland, and Romania.
Top 6
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Swedish Coaches of all time. This list of famous Swedish Coaches is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Sven-Göran Eriksson (1948 - 2024)
With an HPI of 68.05, Sven-Göran Eriksson is the most famous Swedish Coach. His biography has been translated into 43 different languages on wikipedia.
Sven-Göran Eriksson (Swedish pronunciation: [svɛnˈjœ̂ːran ˈêːrɪkˌsɔn] ; 5 February 1948 – 26 August 2024) was a Swedish football player and manager. After a playing career as a right-back, Eriksson went on to experience major success in club management between 1977 and 2001, winning 18 trophies with a variety of league clubs in Sweden, Portugal, and Italy. In European competition, he won the UEFA Cup, the European Cup Winners' Cup (the last edition of that trophy before its abolition), the UEFA Super Cup, and reached the final of the European Cup. Eriksson later managed the national teams of England, Mexico, the Philippines and the Ivory Coast, as well as Manchester City and Leicester City in England. Eriksson coached in ten countries: Sweden, Portugal, Italy, England, Mexico, Ivory Coast, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, China and the Philippines.
2. Lars Lagerbäck (b. 1948)
With an HPI of 59.96, Lars Lagerbäck is the 2nd most famous Swedish Coach. His biography has been translated into 34 different languages.
Lars Edvin "Lasse" Lagerbäck (pronounced [ˈlɑːʂ ˈlâsːɛ ˈlɑ̂ːɡɛ(r)ˌbɛk]; born 16 July 1948) is a Swedish football manager and former player. Lagerbäck has managed a number of national teams prior to his current position. He managed the Sweden national team from 1998 until 2009, leading Sweden to five consecutive tournaments. He resigned as manager in 2009, after Sweden failed to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. After a short stint as manager of Nigeria, he led Iceland to unprecedented success as they qualified for their first finals competition, UEFA Euro 2016, and reached the quarter-finals, beating England in the last 16. Apart from his coaching duties, Lagerbäck has in recent years been a pundit for Premier League and UEFA Champions League broadcasting on Swedish television. He currently holds the record for managing a team in the finals of the European Championships with four appearances.
3. Tommy Svensson (b. 1945)
With an HPI of 49.44, Tommy Svensson is the 3rd most famous Swedish Coach. Her biography has been translated into 22 different languages.
Leif Tommy Svensson (born 4 March 1945) is a Swedish former football manager and player. He is best known for playing for Östers IF and the Sweden men's national football team. He won the Guldbollen in 1969. He managed Sweden between 1991 and 1997 and led them to a bronze medal at the 1994 FIFA World Cup. He is the son of Stig Svensson and the uncle of Joachim Björklund.
4. Erik Hamrén (b. 1957)
With an HPI of 47.11, Erik Hamrén is the 4th most famous Swedish Coach. His biography has been translated into 27 different languages.
Erik Anders Hamrén (born 27 June 1957) is a Swedish manager and former football player, who most recently was the manager of Danish Superliga club AaB. He also previously coached the Sweden national team between 2009 and 2016 and the Iceland national football team from 2018 to 2020.
5. Roland Nilsson (b. 1963)
With an HPI of 45.65, Roland Nilsson is the 5th most famous Swedish Coach. His biography has been translated into 27 different languages.
Nils Lennart Roland Nilsson (born 27 November 1963) is a Swedish professional football manager and former player. He was most recently the head coach of Allsvenskan club IFK Göteborg. As a player, Nilsson played 116 games for Sweden, making him the sixth most capped player in the Sweden national team. He also won the UEFA Cup and played in the semi-finals of the World Cup, the European Championships, and the European Cup during a playing career lasting over two decades. He won his first major honour as a manager in 2010 with Malmö FF when the team won Allsvenskan. On 1 April 2011 Copenhagen confirmed Nilsson as the club's new manager to replace Ståle Solbakken who left Copenhagen to become manager of 1. FC Köln in the summer of 2011. Nilsson joined Copenhagen on 1 June 2011 but was sacked after six months on 9 January 2012.
6. Malin Levenstad (b. 1988)
With an HPI of 16.01, Malin Levenstad is the 6th most famous Swedish Coach. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Eva Malin Sofia Levenstad (born 13 September 1988) is a Swedish football coach and former defender. She previously played for FC Rosengård (formerly known as LdB FC Malmö) of the Damallsvenskan and spent a short period on loan at AIK in 2014. She stopped playing in 2014, but returned to Rosengård in a coaching capacity in 2016. In 2017, she was the head coach of Rosengård – the youngest head coach in Damallsvenskan. She resumed her playing career with the club in 2019. In 2021 she stopped playing again to take a position as an assistant coach at Linköpings FC. Levenstad currently works as an agent for the global football agency CMG, representing players and coaches within women's football.
People
Pantheon has 6 people classified as Swedish coaches born between 1945 and 1988. Of these 6, 5 (83.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Swedish coaches include Lars Lagerbäck, Tommy Svensson, and Erik Hamrén. The most famous deceased Swedish coaches include Sven-Göran Eriksson. As of April 2024, 1 new Swedish coaches have been added to Pantheon including Malin Levenstad.
Living Swedish Coaches
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Lars Lagerbäck
1948 - Present
HPI: 59.96
Tommy Svensson
1945 - Present
HPI: 49.44
Erik Hamrén
1957 - Present
HPI: 47.11
Roland Nilsson
1963 - Present
HPI: 45.65
Malin Levenstad
1988 - Present
HPI: 16.01
