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Sweden

Five years of results, read from this team's own point of view.

Rating

42

Average — 37th percentile · Glicko-2 760 ±96

Record

17-0-6

73.9% of 23 matches in the last five years

Average margin

+5.4

31.7 for, 26.3 against

Home advantage

+11.4

Points per match better at home

Attack

+21%

31.7 scored per match, against the placed field's average

Defence

+4%

26.3 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average

About the team
Head coach
ENG Alex Laybourne
Captain
Philip Murphy
Union
Svenska Rugbyförbundet
First match
Sweden 6–0 Denmark (23 October 1949)
Leading scorer
Axel Kalling-Smith (23)
World Cups
0

Anthem

Du Gamla, Du Fria

Swedish · c. 1893 · 1:28

Words
Swedish lyrics 1. Du gamla, Du fria, Du fjällhöga nord Du tysta, Du glädjerika sköna! Jag hälsar Dig, vänaste land uppå jord, Din sol, Din himmel, Dina ängder gröna. Din sol, Din himmel, Dina ängder gröna. 2. Du tronar på minnen från fornstora dar, då ärat Ditt namn flög över jorden. Jag vet att Du är och Du blir vad du var. Ja, jag vill leva jag vill dö i Norden. Ja, jag vill leva jag vill dö i Norden. English translation 1. Thou ancient, thou free and mountainous North Thou quiet, thou joyful beauty! I greet thee, most beautiful land upon earth, Thy sun, Thy sky and meadows green. Thy sun, Thy sky and meadows green. 2. Thou rest upon memories of great olden days, When honored thy name flew across the world, I know that thou art and will be as thou were, Yes, I want to live I want to die in the North Yes, I want to live I want to die in the North

Recording and words from nationalanthems.info, used under CC BY 4.0.

From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.

Recent results
  • Poland2026-04-11 · away3–72lost
  • Denmark2026-04-04 · home33–32won
  • Czechia2025-11-15 · away24–48lost
  • Lithuania2025-11-01 · home38–3won
  • Croatia2025-10-25 · home57–12won

Newest first, from Sweden's own point of view. Home and away are as the record stores them; a fixture the record does not mark neutral is listed as one side's home, which is right for a league round and wrong for a final played at a third ground.

Shape
Matches decided by seven or fewer26%
Matches totalling 50 or more70%
Margin swing27.9 points
Last five, most recent firstlostwonlostwonwonL1

Biggest win: 51-5 v Luxembourg

Heaviest defeat: 3-72 v Poland

Where they stand (of 65 ranked teams)
Rating42
1Q1 32Med 49Q3 6492

Average — 37th percentile

Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Sweden. The scale is this domain's own and does not compare across the two.

Most similar teams
Teams with too few matches to rate confidently, which are most of the outliers.
component 1 →component 2 ↑South AfricaNew ZealandIrelandFranceEnglandAustraliaWalesItalyChileTongaHong Kong ChinaZimbabweNamibiaAlgeriaMexicoCayman IslandsNetherlandsParaguaySwitzerlandCzechiaUnited Arab EmiratesColombiaBarbadosGermanyUgandaMalaysiaCote D'IvoireMaltaLithuaniaThailandLatviaAndorraSloveniaTurkeyBosnia & HerzegovinaNorwaySweden

Teams that play alike sit close together. The two axes hold 72% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (42%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (30%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.

29 of 66 teams sit too close together to name without covering another team's point, so they are drawn unlabelled. Every dot is still a link to that team, and hovering one names it.

  1. 1Cayman Islands0.24
  2. 2Portugal0.26
  3. 3Mexico0.29
  4. 4Poland0.72
  5. 5France0.96

Distance in the projection above, nearest first.

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