Monday, October 20, 2025 The Swedish Football Association said on Monday that ex-Chelsea manager Graham Potter had been appointed national team coach after Jon Dahl Tomasson was sacked last week following three straight losses in World Cup qualifying.
Sweden terminated Tomasson’s contract on October 14 after
his team only managed to win a single point in the first four games of the
qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.
The Swedish FA said Potter, who was sacked by Premier League
club West Ham in September, would be tasked with turning around a team
containing star strikers Alexander Isak and Viktor Gyokeres and attempting to
qualify for the finals in the US, Canada and Mexico.
“The goal is to create the optimal conditions to reach the
World Cup in the summer of 2026,” the Swedish FA said in a statement.
The FA said the contract with Potter covered the ongoing
qualifying period, with games against Switzerland and Slovenia in November, as
well as a potential playoff in March.
The contract would automatically be extended to the World
Cup finals themselves if Sweden qualify.
“I am very humble facing this assignment, but also
incredibly inspired. Sweden has fantastic players who deliver week after week
in the world’s best leagues,” 50-year-old Potter was quoted as saying.
Despite having £125 million 168 million) Liverpool striker
Isak and Arsenal’s £73 million Gyokeres are starting together up front. Sweden
has failed to even score in their last three matches and sits at the bottom of
Group B.
Potter managed Swedish team Ostersund FK between 2011 and
2018, bringing it up to Sweden’s top league.
He has since managed Swansea City, Brighton and Hove Albion,
Chelsea and West Ham.
He was once regarded as one of English football’s brightest
coaching talents but was sacked by Chelsea in April 2023 after the team’s form
nosedived.
There then followed a difficult nine-month stay at West Ham.
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