
Sven-Göran Eriksson
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1948-02-05
Day of Death
2024-08-26 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Torsby, Värmlands län, Sweden
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.
Known For
Acting
(2024)
Sven
as Self
(2024)
Rooney 2004: World At His Feet
as Self (archive footage)
(2024)
Svennis: Arrivederci Italien
as Self
(2023)
That Peter Crouch Film
as Self
(2022)
Rooney
as Self
(2018)
Managing England: The Impossible Job
as Himself
(2015)
Ur Svennis skugga
as Self
(2011)
(2009)
(2006)
(2002)
David Beckham: Close Up
as Self
(2000)
I stormens öga
as Self
(1994)
Fotbollskrönikan VM 1994
as Himself