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Sweden Women Euro 2025 squad: Peter Gerhardsson's full team

Fridolina Rolfoe of Sweden celebrates scoring her team's first goal with teammates during the UEFA EURO 2025 Women's Qualifiers match between England and Sweden at Wembley Stadium on April 05, 2024 in London, England.

The Sweden Women Euro 2025 squad has been confirmed.

Manager Peter Gerhardsson will be hoping to bring the trophy back to Sweden for the first time since 1984, as the Swedes bring one of the stronger Euro 2025 squads to Switzerland.

Sweden won the inaugural Euros back in 1984, but it’s been four decades of hurt since for one of the women’s game’s trailblazers. They’ve lost six finals across the Euros, World Cup and Olympics, and exited in the semis 10 times, yet such consistency means the Blagult can never be written off.

At the last Euros, they were knocked out in the semi-finals by eventual winners England, and were dominated in the game with a 4-0 result. They'll be looking for a better finish this time around, after positivity in other competitions.

Gerhardsson has overseen third-place finishes at each of the past two World Cups and Olympic silver in 2021. The 65-year-old preaches “always be curious about new things”, in his attempts to keep his side from becoming predictable.

The Swedes have a world-class attack to lean on, too. Barcelona’s Fridolina Rolfo is a left-back staple for Europe’s standard bearers due to an embarrassment of riches higher up, but the 31-year-old is an out-and-out winger for Sweden. Nearing 100 caps, Rolfo was a qualifying ever-present and bagged five goal involvements.

Johanna Rytting Kaneryd, ranked at no.5 in FourFourTwo's list of the best women's players in the world right now, will expect to feature on the right wing, with Arsenal's Champions League hero, Stina Blackstenius leading the line. Is it enough to take this side further in the Euros?

Sweden Women's Euros squad

Sweden Women Euro 2025 squad: the last Swedish squad

  • GK: Tove Enblom (Vålerenga)
  • GK: Jennifer Falk (Häcken)
  • GK: Emma Holmgren (Levante UD)
  • DF: Jonna Andersson (Linkoping)
  • DF: Nathalie Bjorn (Chelsea)
  • DF: Magdalena Eriksson (Bayern Munich)
  • DF: Smilla Holmberg (Hammarby)
  • DF: Amanda Ilestedt (unattached)
  • DF: Hanna Lunfkvist (San Diego Wave)
  • DF: Amanda Nilden (Tottenham)
  • DF: Linda Sembrant (Bayern Munich)
  • MF: Filippa Angeldahl (Real Madrid)
  • MF: Hanna Bennison (Juventus)
  • MF: Sofia Jakobsson (London City Lionesses)
  • MF: Madelen Janogy (Fiorentina)
  • MF: Johanna Rytting Kaneryd (Chelsea)
  • MF: Julia Zigiotti Olme (Bayern Munich)
  • FW: Kosovare Asllani (London City Lionesses)
  • FW: Stina Blackstenius (Arsenal)
  • FW: Rebecka Blomqvist (Eintracht Frankfurt)
  • FW: Lina Hurtig (unattached)
  • FW: Fridolina Rolfo (Barcelona)
  • FW: Ellen Wangerheim (Hammarby)

Predicted line-up

4-3-3: Falk; Lundkvist, Bjorn, Eriksson, Andersson; Angeldahl, Asllani, Bennison; Rytting Kaneryd, Blackstenius, Rolfo

Sweden fixtures and results

Euro 2025 qualifying

April 5 2024: England 1-1 Sweden, Wembley Stadium, London, England

April 9 2024: Sweden 0-1 France, Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden

May 31 2024: Republic of Ireland 0-3 Sweden, Dublin Arena, Dublin, Ireland

June 4 2024: Sweden 1-0 Republic of Ireland, Strawberry Arena, Solna, Sweden

July 12 2024: France 2-1 Sweden, Gaston-Gérard, Dijon, France

July 16 2024: Sweden 0-0 England, Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden

October 25 2024: Luxembourg 0-4 Sweden, Emile Mayrisch, Esch-sur-Alzette, Sweden

October 29 2024: Sweden 8-0 Luxembourg, Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden

November 28 2024: Serbia 0-2 Sweden, Gradski stadion Dubočica, Leskovac, Serbia

December 3 2024: Sweden 6-0 Serbia, Stockholm Arena, Stockholm, Sweden

Women's Nations League

February 21 2025: Denmark 1-2 Sweden, Odense Stadion, Odense, Denmark

February 26 2025: Wales 1-1 Sweden, Racecourse Ground, Wrexham, Wales

April 4 2025: Sweden 3-2 Italy, Strawberry Arena, Solna, Sweden

April 8 2025: Sweden 1-1 Wales, Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden

May 30 2025: Italy 0-0 Sweden, Ennio Tardini, Parma, Italy

June 3 2025: Sweden 6-1 Denmark, Strawberry Arena, Solna, Sweden

Euro 2025

July 4 2025: Denmark vs Sweden, Stade de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

July 8 2025: Poland vs Sweden, Luzern Arena, Lucerne, Switzerland

July 12 2025: Sweden vs Germany, Stadion Letzigrund, Zurich, Switzerland

Everything you need to know about Sweden

Fridolina Rolfo is a major plus for Sweden (Image credit: Getty Images)

LESSON FROM QUALIFYING

Fine margins are everything. Better finishing would have delivered far more than home and away draws with England, plus narrow defeats by France, and avoided two playoff ties. Though Sweden dispatched Luxembourg and Serbia 12-0 and 8-0 on aggregate respectively, there are no second chances in the nitty-gritty of the knockouts.

EUROS RECORD

1984 Winners
1987 Finalists
1989 SF
1991 DNQ
1993 DNQ
1995 Finalists
1997 SF
2001 Finalists
2005 SF
2009 QF
2013 SF
2017 QF
2022 SF

STRENGTHS

No squad has more experience. Sofia Jakobsson, Linda Sembrant and Kosovare Asllani (left) all have 150-plus caps – in Switzerland, the latter may make it 200. In October, Jonna Andersson joined captain Magdalena Eriksson and Stina Blackstenius in the century club.

WEAKNESSES

Turning good performances into wins – 2025 has brought a pair of 1-1 draws against an underdog Wales, and uncomfortably narrow victories over Denmark and Italy.

MOST LIKELY TO...

Reach the knockouts. The Blagult’s last major tournament group exit was 18 years ago – longer than Spain, Germany and England, the only European nations higher than them in March’s FIFA rankings.

LEAST LIKELY TO…

Miss the United States. Sweden have met the Americans at all six World Cups this century, and their past two Olympics appearances.

It’s been 41 years of hurt for Sweden, but their consistency can never be ignored

WHAT THEY HOPE WILL HAPPEN

Lift the trophy again, 41 years on.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN

More heartbreak. Top the group or not, a quarter-final against France, England or the Netherlands awaits.

Sweden manager: Peter Gerhardsson

Peter Gerhardsson has been in charge of Sweden since 2017 (Image credit: Michael Campanella/Getty Images)

Peter Gerhardsson has been in charge of Sweden since 2017 and has overseen a successful tenure. The team have finished third in the 2019 and 2023 World Cups and they won a silver medal at the 2020 Olympics.

Gerhardsson is stepping down after this summer's Euros and so the team will have extra motivation to add a European Championships silverware to his CV.

His replacement has already been announced with former Australia boss Tony Gustavsson confirmed as the man to take the job after this summer.

His replacement has already been announced with former Australia boss Tony Gustavsson confirmed as the man to take the job after this summer.

Sweden's star player

Kosovare Asllani

Kosovare Asllani has been thoroughly impressive (Image credit: David Lidstrom/Getty Images)

Kosovare Asllani has been one of the consistent servants to Swedish football. She sparks life into every match she plays in and can spin the fortunes in the side's favour with a transitional break or a pinpoint cross.

Asllani made her debut in 2008 and has since won two Olympic silver medals and earned her country a third-place finish at the World Cup.

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