The Sweden national bandy team ( sv, Sveriges herrlandslag i bandy) represents Sweden in the sport of

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. There are two separate national teams, a national bandy team for men, and a national bandy team for women. This article deals chiefly with Sweden's national men's bandy team. Sweden has been playing friendlies against

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and

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since the early 20th century. In 1907 and 1909 there were also occasional games against

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and

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. The games were set up informally from 1907 and in official internationals from 1919. Agreements were made to play friendlies against

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in the late 1940s, but the plans did not come to realization. Finland, Norway and Sweden played bandy at the Winter Olympics in Oslo in 1952. After having seen them there, the Soviet Union invited these three countries to a four nation bandy tournament in 1954. This was the first time a Soviet national bandy team met other national bandy teams. The four countries used somewhat different rules prior to this tournament, but the rules were adjusted to be the same for the future. Sweden won the tournament. Sweden has been taking part in the

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s since the start in 1957. The team has never finished worse than third place (which once, in 1957, meant last place) and has won the championship 12 times . In the 2009 World Championship Sweden won in the final against Russia. Sweden repeated the victory in the 2010 World Championships, this time in

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, the first time Sweden has won a bandy world championship in the capital of

. This was the tenth victory in the world championships for Sweden. Sweden won the Rossiya Tournament in 1974 and 1990 and has won its successor Russian Government Cup in 1994, 1996 and 2003. The record for senior men's senior team appearances for the Swedish national bandy team is held by former

Borlänge/Stora Tuna BK Borlänge/Stora Tuna BK is a bandy club in Borlänge in Sweden. It was founded as ''Borlänge-Stora Tuna BK'' in 1981, when two clubs combined. The club was usually called Borlänge Bandy, until 2016, when it changed to the name ''Peace & Love Cit ...

Falu BS Falu Bandysällskap, ''Falu BS'', is a bandy club from Falun in Sweden. Falu BS was founded as ''Falu Bollsällskap'' on 10 December 1935, by merging Falu BK, Holmens IF, Falu SK and IFK Falun. All these clubs were playing bandy. In 1936 the ...

Västerås SK Bandy Västerås SK Bandy is the men's bandy side of the Swedish sports club Västerås SK, located in Västerås. The senior side currently plays in the Swedish Elitserien, the top division of Swedish bandy. Västerås SK BK Dam is the women's b ...

, IFK Vänersborg,

Sandvikens AIK Sandvikens AIK (commonly known as SAIK) a sports club in Sandviken, Sweden. The bandy section plays its home games in the Göransson Arena in Sandviken. They play in a black outfit. History Sandvikens AIK was founded on 16 March 1901. Originall ...

and

Tillberga IK Bandy Tillberga IK Bandy, also called ''Tillberga Bandy Västerås'' or ''TB Västerås'', is a Swedish Bandy club playing in the Allsvenskan for the first time in the 2006–07 season. Tillberga IK were founded in 1930 and play their home games at Ro ...

player

Per Fosshaug Per "Pelle" Fosshaug (born 24 February 1965) is a Swedish bandy manager and former bandy player. Fosshaug played in midfield for many clubs in Sweden, as well as for the Sweden national bandy team, for which he made a record 129 appearances betwe ...

, who played for the team 129 times.

World Championship record

Current squad

Swedish squad at the 2014 World Championship in Irkutsk,

, January 26 – February 2, 2014.

References

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