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England's Coaches/Managers -
Sven-Göran Eriksson
67 matches in charge
72% successful
2001-2006
"If we don't get results, they will try to hang me.  But if I was an Englishman, they would also try to hang me." - 12 January 2001.


Notes

Eriksson's intelligence and thoroughness, as impressive as his team's performance, initially had even the tabloid press gushing praise.  As he approached his second year in the job, however, there was grumbling that he does not meet with the media often enough and that he imparts little information even when he does.  Following tabloid disclosure of his alleged affair with a television personality, his private life became front-page news, and there were reports that he might leave if the media continued to delve into personal matters.  

England's quarterfinal elimination from World Cup 2002 prompted the first significant criticisms of Eriksson's performance as coach.  Unfavourable reviews were in the minority, however, and England's sixth-place World Cup showing meant his job was secure.  The only question was whether Eriksson himself wanted to stay on.  He said he intended to honour his contract, which does not run out until after the next World Cup in 2006.  

Much more heated and widespread criticism followed England's disappointing home 2-2 draw against FYR Macedonia in a European Championship 2004 qualification match in October, 2002 and a desultory 3-1 home loss to Australia in a friendly in February, 2003.  But England's pair of 2-0 wins against Liechtenstein away and Turkey at home in late March and early April and their 2-1 win against Slovakia at home in June put them in contention for first place in the qualification group and brought at least a lull in media sniping.  England's record in competitive matches under Eriksson remains superb. - PY
 

Sven-Göran Eriksson - Biographical Facts

Full name Sven-Göran Eriksson.
Born  5 February 1948, Torsby, Sweden.

Playing Career

Club Right back, KB Karlskoga, Sweden, NK to 1975.
International None.

Managerial Career

Prior experience 1976-77 to 1978-79 Degerfors IF, Sweden; 1979-80 to 1982-83 IFK Göteborg, Sweden; 1982-83 to 1983-84 SL Benfica, Portugal; 1984-85 to 1986-87 AS Roma, Italy; 1987-88 to 1988-89, Fiorentina AC, Italy; 1989-90 to 1991-92, SL Benfica, Portugal; 1992-93 to 1996-97 Sampdoria UC, Italy; 1997-98 to 2000-01 SS Lazio, Italy.
England tenure Appointed national team coach 31 October 2000 effective 1 July 2001, but took charge on 12 January 2001 after resigning three days earlier as coach of SS Lazio in Italy.
First England match Match No. 776, 28 February 2001, England 3 Spain 0, friendly match at Villa Park in Birmingham.
Last England match Match No. 842, 1 July 2006, England 0 Portugal 0, World Cup Finals quarter-final match at Veltins Arena, Gelsinkirchen, Germany.
Major tournaments World Cup 2002 final tournament.  European Championship 2004 final tournament.  World Cup 2006 final tournament.
England team honours None.
Individual honours Swedish Prince's Plaque for outstanding sporting achievement  on 4 April 2001; Sweden's Football Personality of the Year award on 5 November 2001; Sports Coach UK (formerly the National Coaching Foundation) Coach of the Year award (shared) on 6 December 2001; BBC Coach of the Year award on 9 December 2001.
Distinction England's first foreign-born coach/manager; had most successful England coaching start with five successive wins.
Backroom staff Eriksson chose fellow-Swede Tord Grip to be his assistant.  Over the five years in charge, Steve McClaren and Brian Kidd were his main coaches.  Sammy Lee was also appointed as a coach.  Ray Clemence was the goalkeeping coach.  Gary Lewin his physiotherapist.

 

Matches in Which Sven-Göran Eriksson Was In Charge of England
No. Date Opposition Venue Type F A Result H.T.
776 28-Feb-2001 Spain Villa Park, Birmingham F 3 0 HW [1-0]
777 24-Mar-2001 Finland Anfield Road, Liverpool WCP 2 1 HW [1-1]
778 28-Mar-2001 Albania Stadiumi Kombetar "Qemal Stafa Stadium", Tiranë WCP 3 1 AW [0-0]
779 25-May-2001 México Pride Park Stadium, Derby F 4 0 HW [3-0]
780 06-Jun-2001 Greece Olympiako Stadio 'Spyros Louis', Athína WCP 2 0 AW [0-0]
781 15-Aug-2001 Netherlands White Hart Lane, Tottenham, London F 0 2 HL [0-2]
782 01-Sep-2001 Germany Olympiastadion, München WCP 5 1 AW [2-1]
783 05-Sep-2001 Albania St. James' Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne WCP 2 0 HW [1-0]
784 06-Oct-2001 Greece Old Trafford, Manchester WCP 2 2 HD [0-1]
785 10-Nov-2001 Sweden Old Trafford, Manchester F 1 1 HD [1-1]
786 13-Feb-2002 Netherlands Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam F 1 1 AD [0-1]
787 27-Mar-2002 Italy Elland Road, Leeds F 1 2 HL [0-0]
788 17-Apr-2002 Paraguay Anfield Road, Liverpool F 4 0 HW [1-0]
789 21-May-2002 South Korea Jeju World Cup Stadium, Seogwipo-si F 1 1 AD [1-0]
790 26-May-2002 Cameroon Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium, Kobe City, Japan F 2 2 ND [1-1]
791 02-Jun-2002 Sweden Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama-ken, Japan WCF 1 1 ND [1-0]
792 07-Jun-2002 Argentina Sapporo Dome, Sapporo City, Japan WCF 1 0 NW [1-0]
793 12-Jun-2002 Nigeria Nagai Stadium, Osaka City, Japan WCF 0 0 ND [0-0]
794 15-Jun-2002 Denmark Niigata Prefectural Stadium ("Big Swan"), Niigata-city, Japan WCF 3 0 NW [3-0]
795 21-Jun-2002 Brazil Shizuoka Stadium Ecopa, Fukuroi city, Japan WCF 1 2 NL [1-1]
796 07-Sep-2002 Portugal Villa Park, Birmingham F 1 1 HD [1-0]
797 12-Oct-2002 Slovakia Štadión Tehelné Pole, Bratislava ECP 2 1 AW [0-1]
798 16-Oct-2002 FYR Macedonia The Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium, Southampton ECP 2 2 HD [2-2]
799 12-Feb-2003 Australia Boleyn Ground, Upton Park, London F 1 3 HL [0-2]
800 29-Mar-2003 Liechtenstein Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz ECP 2 0 AW [1-0]
801 02-Apr-2003 Turkey Stadium of  Light, Sunderland ECP 2 0 HW [0-0]
802 22-May-2003 South Africa ABSA King's Park Stadium, Durban F 2 1 AW [1-1]
803 03-Jun-2003 Serbia and Montenegro Walkers Stadium, Leicester F 2 1 HW [1-1]
804 11-Jun-2003 Slovakia The Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough ECP 2 1 HW [0-1]
805 20-Aug-2003 Croatia Portman Road, Ipswich F 3 1 HW [1-0]
806 06-Sep-2003 Macedonia FYR Gradski Stadion, Skopje ECP 2 1 AW [0-1]
807 10-Sep-2003 Liechtenstein Old Trafford, Manchester ECP 2 0 HW [0-0]
808 11-Oct-2003 Turkey Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadyumu, İstanbul ECP 0 0 AD [0-0]
809 16-Nov-2003 Denmark Old Trafford, Manchester F 2 3 HL [2-2]
810 18-Feb-2004 Portugal Estádio Algarve, Faro Loulé F 1 1 AD [0-0]
811 31-Mar-2004 Sweden Nya Ullevi Stadion, Göteborg F 0 1 AL [0-0]
812 01-Jun-2004 Japan City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester T/C 1 1 HD [1-0]
813 05-Jun-2004 Iceland City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester T/C 6 1 HW [3-1]
814 13-Jun-2004 France Estádio da Luz, Lisboa, Portugal ECF 1 2 NL [1-0]
815 17-Jun-2004 Switzerland Estádio Municipal de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal ECF 3 0 NW [1-0]
816 21-Jun-2004 Croatia Estádio da Luz, Lisboa, Portugal ECF 4 2 NW [2-1]
817 24-Jun-2004 Portugal Estádio da Luz, Lisboa ECF 2 2 AD [1-0]

1-1 full-time, 2-2 after extra time, 5-6 on penalty kicks

818 18-Aug-2004 Ukraine St James' Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne F 3 0 HW [2-0]
819 04-Sep-2004 Austria Ernst Happel Stadion, Wien WCP 2 2 AD [1-0]
820 08-Sep-2004 Poland Stadion Śląski, Chorzów WCP 2 1 AW [1-0]
821 09-Oct-2004 Wales Old Trafford, Manchester WCP 2 0 HW [1-0]
822 13-Oct-2004 Azerbaijan Tofig Bakhramov Stadium, Baku WCP 1 0 AW [1-0]
823 17-Nov-2004 Spain Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid F 0 1 AL [0-1]
824 09-Feb-2005 Netherlands Villa Park, Birmingham F 0 0 HD [0-0]
825 26-Mar-2005 Northern Ireland Old Trafford, Manchester WCP 4 0 HW [0-0]
826 30-Mar-2005 Azerbaijan St James' Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne WCP 2 0 HW [0-0]
827 28-May-2005 U.S.A. Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois F 2 1 AW [2-0]
828 31-May-2005 Colombia Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States F 3 2 NW [2-1]
829 17-Aug-2005 Denmark Parken Stadion, Křbenhavn F 1 4 AL [0-0]
830 03-Sep-2005 Wales 'Stadiwm Y Mileniwm' The Millennium Stadium, Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff WCP 1 0 AW [0-0]
831 07-Sep-2005 Northern Ireland Windsor Park, Belfast  WCP 0 1 AL [0-0]
832 08-Oct-2005 Austria Old Trafford, Manchester WCP 1 0 HW [1-0]
833 12-Oct-2005 Poland Old Trafford, Manchester WCP 2 1 HW [1-1]
834 12-Nov-2005 Argentina Stade de Genčve, Genčve, Switzerland F 3 2 NW [1-1]
835 01-Mar-2006 Uruguay Anfield Road, Liverpool F 2 1 HW [0-1]
836 30-May-2006 Hungary Old Trafford, Manchester F 3 1 HW [0-0]
837 03-Jun-2006 Jamaica Old Trafford, Manchester F 6 0 HW [4-0]
838 10-Jun-2006 Paraguay Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt, Germany WCF 1 0 NW [1-0]
839 15-Jun-2006 Trinidad & Tobago Frankenstadion, Nürnberg, Germany WCF 2 0 NW [0-0]
840 20-Jun-2006 Sweden Rhein Energy Stadion, Köln, Germany WCF 2 2 ND [1-0]
841 25-Jun-2006 Ecuador Gottlieb Daimler Stadion, Stuttgart, Germany WCF 1 0 NW [0-0]
842 01-Jul-2006 Portugal Veltins Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Germany WCF 0 0 ND [0-0]

0-0 full-time, 0-0 after extra time, 1-3 on penalty kicks

Sven-Göran Eriksson - Record - All Matches by Venue
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts % W/L
Home 30 20 6 4 68 25 +43 2 13 2.267 0.833 76.7 +16
Away 21 11 6 4 32 21 +11 4 5 1.524 1.000 66.7 +7
Neutral 16 9 5 2 28 15 +13 2 8 1.750 0.938 71.9 +7
Total 67 40 17 10 128 61 +67 8 26 1.910 0.910 72.3 +30
Sven-Göran Eriksson - Record - All Matches by Type
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts % W/L
World Cup 26 18 6 2 45 15 +30 3 15 1.731 0.577 80.8 +16
European Championship 12 8 3 1 24 11 +13 1 5 2.000 0.917 79.2 +7
Minor Tournament/Cup 2 1 1 0 7 2 +5 0 0 3.500 1.000 75.0 +1
Friendly 27 13 7 7 52 33 +19 4 6 1.926 1.222 61.1 +6
All 67 40 17 10 128 61 +67 8 26 1.910 0.910 72.3 +30
Sven-Göran Eriksson - Record - Major Tournament Matches
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
WCP 2000-02 6 5 1 0 16 5 +11 0 2 2.667 0.833 91.7 +5
WCF 2002 5 2 2 1 6 3 +3