Sweden Women, the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2003 runners-up, are among the top challengers for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 in Australia and New Zealand. Here, we are talking about Sweden Women’s key records and stats in the FIFA Women’s World Cup history.
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The UEFA side Sweden Women appeared in all the previous eight Women’s World Cups. Apart from the runners-up journey in the 2003 edition, the Blue and Yellow also played three WWC semi-finals, including the last edition (2019).
Note: All the records are till FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019.
(Team Records)
Contents
Overall records
Hosts
Best Result
Final place in every edition
Match records (Top 3)
>> Biggest winning margins
>> Biggest losing margins
Sweden Women’s overall records in FIFA Women’s World Cup history
Participation | Matches | Won | Drawn* | Penalty shootout | Lost | Winning %* | |
Won | Lost | ||||||
8/8 | 40 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 57.50 |
(Drawn: including penalty shootout matches; Winning %: excluding penalty shootouts)
Hosts: 1995
Best Result: Runners-up (2003)
Sweden Women’s final place in every FIFA Women’s World Cup
Year | Host(s) | Last position |
1991 | China | Third Place |
1995 | Sweden | Quarter-Finals |
1999 | USA | Quarter-Finals |
2003 | USA | Runners-up |
2007 | China | Group Stage |
2011 | Germany | Third Place |
2015 | Canada | Round of 16 |
2019 | France | Third Place |
Sweden Women’s match records in FIFA Women’s World Cup (Top 3)
Biggest winning margin | Biggest losing margin |
8-0 vs Japan Women in 1991 (Group Stage) | 4-1 vs Norway Women in 1991 (Semi-Final) |
5-1 vs Thailand Women in 2019 (Group Stage) | 4-1 vs Germany Women in 2015 (Round of 16) |
4-0 vs Germany Women in 1991 (Third Place play-off) | 3-1 vs Norway Women in 1999 (Quarter-Final) |
(Players’ Records)
Contents
Most goals
Leading goal-scorer in an edition
Most goals for Sweden Women in FIFA Women’s World Cup
Player | Goals |
Victoria Svensson | 6 |
Lena Videkull | 6 |
Hanna Ljungberg | 5 |
Pia Sundhage | 5 |
Anneli Andelén | 4 |
Lotta Schelin | 4 |
Sweden Women’s leading goal-scorer in a FIFA Women’s World Cup edition
Player | Goals | Year |
Lena Videkull | 5 | 1991 |
Pia Sundhage | 4 | 1991 |
Anneli Andelén | 3 | 1991 |
Victoria Svensson | 3 | 2003 |
Hanna Ljungberg | 3 | 2003 |
Lisa Dahlkvist | 3 | 2011 |
Kosovare Asllani | 3 | 2019 |
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