Swedish men's national football team: top goal scorers of all-time 2023

Zlatan Ibrahimović is the all-time leading goal scorer of the national soccer team of Sweden with a total of 62 goals scored, followed by Sven Rydell with 43 goals. Currently signed as a striker for AC Milan, Zlatan Ibrahimović’s success in the game is not limited to the Swedish National team but also within club soccer. In the UEFA Champions League alone Ibrahimović has scored 49 goals, placing him high up in this European tournament's ranking of all-time top goal scorers.

Most valuable Swedish soccer players

While Zlatan Ibrahimović tops the list of all-time goal scorers of the Swedish national soccer team, Dejan Kulusevski ranked as Sweden's most valuable soccer player in July 2022. Having begun his senior career at Atalanta Bergamo Calcio, Kulusevski now plays for the English club Totteham Hotspur and in July 2022 had a market value of roughly 40 million euros. Following shortly behind Kulusevski in this list is the Real Sociedad centre forward, Alexander Isak, who at only 22 years of age had a market value of 30 million euros.

Sweden in the World Cup

  In a survey taken prior to World Cup 2018, close to half of the Swedish respondents stated they preferred a bar or restaurant to watch it, while the majority also stated they will watch with friends and family. Preferred devices for viewing the matches were a television or the internet, rather than mobile phones or tablets. The FIFA World Cup 2022 is taking place from November 21 to December 18 in the peninsular Arab nation of Qatar. But despite the popularity of soccer in Sweden, the national team did will not be playing in this tournament as they were ousted by the Polish soccer squat in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match on 29 March 2022.