Sven-Göran Eriksson

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Sven-Göran Eriksson

Acting February 5, 1948

Torsby, Värmlands län, Sweden

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 clu…

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Goal!

Goal!

6.8 2005 Movie
All Against All

All Against All

6.4 2019 TV Show
Goal III: Taking on the World

Goal III: Taking on the World

4.0 2009 Movie
Renées brygga

Renées brygga

2015 TV Show
Brazil 2002: The Real Story

Brazil 2002: The Real Story

7.6 2022 Movie
Rooney

Rooney

6.2 2022 Movie
That Peter Crouch Film

That Peter Crouch Film

6.8 2023 Movie
VM-94 - En sportsaga

VM-94 - En sportsaga

2022 TV Show
England 2006: The Golden Generation

England 2006: The Golden Generation

4.0 2026 Movie
Fever Pitch: The Battle for the Premier League

Fever Pitch: The Battle for the Premier League

8.8 2023 TV Show
Fotbollens historia

Fotbollens historia

2024 TV Show
Sven

Sven

6.5 2024 Movie

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    England 2006: The Golden Generation

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  2. 2025
    King Of Lies: Football's Trillion Dollar Con

    Movie Self

  3. 2024
    Svennis

    TV show Self

  4. 2024
    Sven

    Movie Self

  5. 2024
    Svennis: Arrivederci Italien

    Movie Self

  6. 2024
    Rooney 2004: World At His Feet

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  7. 2024
    Fotbollens historia

    TV show Self

  8. 2023
    That Peter Crouch Film

    Movie Self

  9. 2023
    Fever Pitch: The Battle for the Premier League

    TV show Self

  10. 2022
    Scandal!: When Sven Scored with Ulrika

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  11. 2022
    Vardy vs Rooney: The Wagatha Trial

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  12. 2022
    Brazil 2002: The Real Story

    Movie Self

  13. 2022
    VM-94 - En sportsaga

    TV show Self (archive voice)

  14. 2022
    Rooney

    Movie Self

  15. 2019
    All Against All

    TV show Self - Contestant

  16. 2018
    Managing England: The Impossible Job

    Movie Himself

More credits
  1. 2015
    Ett jobb för Berg

    TV show Self

  2. 2015
    Ur Svennis skugga

    Movie Self

  3. 2015
    Renées brygga

    TV show Self

  4. 2012
    Notts County FC: The Movie

    Movie Himself

  5. 2011
    The Last Proletarians of Football

    Movie Self

  6. 2010
    VM-krönika 2010

    Movie Self

  7. 2009
    Goal III: Taking on the World

    Movie Self

  8. 2008
    Manchester City: End of Season Review 2007/2008

    Movie

  9. 2006
    VM-krönika 2006

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  10. 2006
    The Story of the 2006 FIFA World Cup: The Official Film of 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany

    Movie Self

  11. 2005
    Goal!

    Movie Sven-Göran Eriksson

  12. 2002
    VM-krönika 2002

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  13. 2002
    David Beckham: Close Up

    Movie Self

  14. 2000
    I stormens öga

    Movie Self

  15. 1994
    VM-krönika 1994

    Movie Self - Kommentator (archive sound)

  16. 1990
    VM-krönika 1990

    Movie Self (archive voice)