Sven-Göran Eriksson

Biography

Sven-Göran Eriksson (5 February 1948 – 26 August 2024) was a Swedish football manager. After a playing career as a right-back, Eriksson went on to experience major success in club management between 1977 and 2001, winning 18 trophies with a variety of league clubs in Sweden, Portugal, and Italy. In European competition, he won the UEFA Cup, the European Cup Winners' Cup (the last edition of that trophy before its abolition), the UEFA Super Cup, and reached the final of the European Cup. Eriksson later managed the national teams of England, Mexico, the Philippines and the Ivory Coast, as well as Manchester City and Leicester City in England. Eriksson coached in ten countries: Sweden, Portugal, Italy, England, Mexico, Ivory Coast, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, China and the Philippines.

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Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

2005Nominee

Best Performance

Goal!

2009Nominee

Best Performance

Goal III: Taking on the World

2026Nominee

Best Performance

England 2006: The Golden Generation

Career Highlights

2010Highlight

Best Performance

VM-krönika 2010

2022Highlight

Best Performance

Brazil 2002: The Real Story

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TrailerGoal! - trailer

Goal!

TrailerGOAL 3: TAKING ON THE WORLD - Official UK trailer (ON DVD 15th JUNE)

Goal III: Taking on the World

ClipWAGS, injuries and missed chances | The story of England's Golden Generation

England 2006: The Golden Generation