Sweden national rugby union team

Sweden

Union	Svenska Rugbyförbundet
Coach(es)	Mike Tatu
Captain(s)	Mattias Björkebäck
Most caps	Nicklas Jaråker : 54
Team kit
First international
Sweden 6 - 0 Denmark (1949-10-23)
Largest win
Luxembourg 3 - 116 Sweden (2001-05-05)
Largest defeat
Soviet Union 72 - 0 Sweden (1976-07-01)

The Sweden national rugby union team is a member of the FIRA – Association of European Rugby and plays in the 2010–12 European Nations Cup Second Division. Sweden has been trying to qualify for the Rugby World Cup since the 1991 Rugby World Cup, but has yet to make it to the final competition. A majority of the players are native Swedes based in Swedish clubs but there are a growing numbers of players from UK and Ireland that have qualified for Sweden through ancestral eligibility and foreigner that have become eligible to play for Sweden through residency.

World Cup record

• 1987 – No qualifying tournament held
• 1991 - Did not qualify
• 1995 - Did not qualify
• 1999 - Did not qualify
• 2003 - Did not qualify
• 2007 - Did not qualify
• 2011 - Did not qualify

Current Squad

This was the Sweden squad for the match with Croatia, on 29 October, 2011:

Number	Name	Club
1	Peter Blaha	IF Attila
2	Rickard Johansson	Hammarby IF
3	Stefan Obradovic	IF Attila
4	Mattias Björkebäck (c)	Hammarby IF
5	Ivar Bengtsson	Hammarby IF
6	Andrew Daish	Old Albanian RFC
7	Emil Andersson	HRC Gripen
8	Rikard Örnberg	Vänersborgs RK
9	Lee Sandberg	Cambridge R.U.F.C.
10	Conor Murphy	Galway Corinthians RFC
11	Robin Fransson	Malvern RFC
12	Alexander Taylor	Hammarby IF
13	Thomas Arvidsson	Fredriksbergs RC
14	Ian Gowland	Stockholm Exiles
15	Tim Johansson	Enköpings RK
16	Lars Tunestål	Pingvin RC
17	Mathias Thorhard	Hammarby IF
18	Jonny Pettersson	Enköpings RK
19	Sami Paulsson	Enköpings RK
20	Rikus van Niekerk	Stockholm Exiles
21	Bobby Nave	Enköpings RK
22	Tobias Borg	Enköpings RK

Schedule and Recent Results

The following is a list of matches from the past three years, as well as any future matches that have been officially scheduled.

Date	Opponent	Venue	Competition	Result
18 April, 2009	Netherlands	Amsterdam, Netherlands	2008–2010 European Nations Cup Second Division	24 – 36 L
02 May, 2009	Croatia	Split, Croatia	2008–2010 European Nations Cup Second Division	13 – 23 L
31 October, 2009	Netherlands	Trelleborg, Sweden	2008–2010 European Nations Cup Second Division	16 – 19 L
07 November, 2009	Malta	Paola, Malta	2008–2010 European Nations Cup Second Division	23 – 25 L
17 April, 2010	Latvia	Riga, Latvia	2008–2010 European Nations Cup Second Division	27 – 31 L
01 May, 2010	Croatia	Enkoping, Sweden	2008–2010 European Nations Cup Second Division	17 – 14 W
23 October, 2010	Croatia	Split, Croatia	2010–12 European Nations Cup Second Division	32 – 13 W
06 November, 2010	Lithuania	Trelleborg, Sweden	2010–12 European Nations Cup Second Division	26 – 22 W
09 April, 2011	Denmark	Södertälje, Sweden	2011 Viking Tri-Nations	55 – 15 W
07 May, 2011	Malta	Stockholm, Sweden	2010–12 European Nations Cup Second Division	24 – 13 W
14 May, 2011	Latvia	Riga, Latvia	2010–12 European Nations Cup Second Division	54 – 29 W
03 September, 2011	Norway	Bergen, Norway	2011 Viking Tri-Nations	18 – 7 W
22 October, 2011	Lithuania	Kaunas, Lithuania	2010–12 European Nations Cup Second Division	30 – 30 D
29 October, 2011	Croatia	Enköping, Sweden	2010–12 European Nations Cup Second Division	24 – 18 W
21 April, 2012	Malta	Valetta, Malta	2010–12 European Nations Cup Second Division
05 May, 2012	Latvia	Enköping, Sweden	2010–12 European Nations Cup Second Division

Records of International Matches

Sweden's test match record against all nations:

Against	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	% Won
Andorra	5	2	3	0	40%
Armenia	1	1	0	0	100%
Austria	2	2	0	0	100%
Belgium	12	4	8	0	33.3%
Croatia	4	3	1	0	75%
Czech Republic	2	1	1	0	50%
Czechoslovakia	7	0	6	1	0%
Denmark	49	36	10	3	73.5%
East Germany	3	0	3	0	0%
Finland	2	2	0	0	100%
Germany	3	1	2	0	33.3%
Hungary	1	1	0	0	100%
Israel	3	3	0	0	100%
Latvia	8	5	3	0	62.5%
Lithuania	6	5	0	1	83.3%
Luxembourg	3	3	0	0	100%
Malta	3	1	2	0	33.3%
Netherlands	19	1	18	0	5.3%
Norway	7	7	0	0	100%
Poland	11	0	10	1	0%
Portugal	2	0	2	0	0%
Serbia and Montenegro	5	3	2	0	60%
Soviet Union	2	0	2	0	0%
Spain	2	0	2	0	0%
Switzerland	6	6	0	0	100%
Tunisia	1	0	1	0	0%
Ukraine	2	0	2	0	0%
West Germany	5	2	3	0	40%
Total	176	89	81	6	50.6%

External links

• Svenska Rugbyförbundet - Official Site (Swedish)
• Current squad - Official Site (Swedish)