| Sweden | |
| Badge: | Coat of arms of Sweden.svg |
| Badge Size: | 115px |
| Association: | Swedish Bandy Association (Svenska bandyförbundet) |
| Coach: |  Michael Carlsson |
| First Game: | Sweden 12 – 1 Finland Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire 11 March 1907 |
| Largest Win: | 33–5 (Irkutsk, Russia; 30 January 2014) |
| Largest Loss: | 0–8 (Stockholm, Sweden; 24 February 1963) |
| World Champ2 Name: | Bandy World Championship |
| World Champ2 Apps: | 38 |
| World Champ2 First: | 1957 |
| World Champ2 Best: | Champions (1981, 1983, 1987, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2023) |
| Pattern B1: | _team_sweden_bandy |
| Leftarm1: | FFFF00 |
| Body1: | FFFF00 |
| Rightarm1: | FFFF00 |
| Shorts1: | 0000FF |
| Pattern B2: | _team_sweden_bandy |
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The Sweden national bandy team (Swedish: Sveriges herrlandslag i bandy) represents Sweden in the sport of bandy. 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 Finland and Norway since the early 20th century. In 1907 and 1909 there were also occasional games against Russia and Denmark. The games were set up informally from 1907 and in official internationals from 1919.[1] Agreements were made to play friendlies against Soviet Union in the late 1940s, but the plans did not come to realization.[2]
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.[3]
Sweden has been taking part in the bandy world championships 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.[4] Sweden repeated the victory in the 2010 World Championships, this time in Moscow, the first time Sweden has won a bandy world championship in the capital of Russia. This was the tenth victory in the world championships for Sweden.[5]
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, Falu BS, Västerås SK Bandy, IFK Vänersborg, Sandvikens AIK and Tillberga IK Bandy player Per Fosshaug, who played for the team 129 times.
See main article: Bandy World Championship.
Swedish squad at the 2014 World Championship in Irkutsk, Russia, January 26 – February 2, 2014.[6]
| width=40 | Pos. | width=40 | Age | width=200 | Name | width=200 | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center | GK | align=center | 39 | Andreas Bergwall | Västerås SK | ||
| align=center | GK | align=center | 38 | Anders Svensson | Dynamo Kazan | ||
| align=center | DF | align=center | 26 | Martin Johansson | Villa Lidköping BK | ||
| align=center | DF | align=center | 30 | Per Hellmyrs | Dynamo Moscow | ||
| align=center | DF | align=center | 26 | Linus Pettersson | Zorky Krasnogorsk | ||
| align=center | DF | align=center | 36 | Andreas Westh | Bollnäs GIF | ||
| align=center | DF | align=center | 37 | Daniel Välitalo | Dynamo Kazan | ||
| align=center | MF | align=center | 25 | Erik Säfström | Sandvikens AIK | ||
| align=center | MF | align=center | 31 | Hans Andersson | Dynamo Kazan | ||
| align=center | MF | align=center | 27 | Johan Löfstedt | Vetlanda BK | ||
| align=center | MF | align=center | 28 | David Pizzoni Elfving | Hammarby IF | ||
| align=center | MF | align=center | 26 | Daniel Berlin | Dynamo Moscow | ||
| align=center | MF | align=center | 32 | Ulf Einarsson | Hammarby IF | ||
| align=center | MF | align=center | 26 | Christoffer Edlund | Sandvikens AIK | ||
| align=center | FW | align=center | 23 | Adam Gilljam | Hammarby IF | ||
| align=center | FW | align=center | 30 | Daniel Andersson | Villa Lidköping BK | ||
| align=center | FW | align=center | 31 | Patrik Nilsson | Hammarby IF | ||
| align=center | FW | align=center | 18 | Erik Pettersson | Sandvikens AIK |