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Sweden and Norway set fair while Denmark sweat Mention the year 1958 and Swedish football fans still romanticise about what might have been. The Scandinavians reached the FIFA World Cup™ final in their own country, only to be thwarted by an outstanding Brazilian team spearheaded by a 17-year-old Pele.
Sweden have competed in ten FIFA World Cups since 1930, a testimony to the traditionally strong position they have enjoyed on the Nordic football landscape. After a lean period in the 1980s, the Swedes returned to prominence by taking third place at the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States. Their 2002 campaign ended in a second-round defeat to surprise package Senegal, after they had topped their first-round group ahead of favourites England and Argentina. (Read more about the Scandanavian qualifications.)
