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Norway 3-2 Sweden - September 22, 1976 / Nordic Tournament 1972/1977

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Nordic Tournament 1972/1977 - Round 4

Ullevaal Stadion - Oslo - Norway

September 22, 1976

23 000

3 - 2

Sweden

Stein Thunberg

17'

Paal Jacobsen

87'

53'

Conny Torstensson

82'

Thomas Sjöberg

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4' - Goal Stein Thunberg4

17' - Goal Stein Thunberg17

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46' - Substitution Mats Werneris substituted by Olle Nordin

53' - Goal Conny Torstensson

77' - Substitution Roger Albertsenis substituted by Steinar Aase photo Paal Jacobsen

77' - Substitution Odd Iversenis substituted by Paal Jacobsen77

82' - Goal Thomas Sjöberg

87' - Goal Paal Jacobsen87

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Norway

3 - 2

Sweden

Norway Sweden

Team line-ups

Norway

Jacobsen

Tom Rüsz Jacobsen

Norway

B.date20/02/1953

Age23 years

positionGoalkeeper

Birkelund

Jan Birkelund

Norway

B.date10/11/1950

Age25 years

positionDefender

Gröndalen

Svein Gröndalen

Norway

B.date08/02/1955

Age21 years

positionLeft central defender

Karlsen

Helge Karlsen

Norway

B.date29/06/1948

Age28 years

positionDefender

Kordahl

Tore Kordahl

Norway

B.date17/12/1950

Age25 years

positionDefender

Albertsen77

Roger Albertsen

Norway

B.date15/03/1957

Age19 years

positionMidfield

Kvia

Svein Kvia

Norway

B.date27/09/1947

Age28 years

positionMidfield

Thunberg174

Stein Thunberg

Norway

B.date12/05/1954

Age22 years

positionMidfield

Hansen

Jan Hansen

Norway

B.date14/02/1955

Age21 years

positionMidfield

Iversen77

Odd Iversen

Norway

B.date06/11/1945

Age30 years

positionForward

Lund

Tom Lund

Norway

B.date10/09/1950

Age26 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Tom Rüsz Jacobsen		23	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jan Birkelund		25	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Svein Gröndalen		21	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Helge Karlsen		28	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tore Kordahl		25	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Roger Albertsen	77	19	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Svein Kvia		28	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Stein Thunberg	174	22	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jan Hansen		21	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Odd Iversen	77	30	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Tom Lund		26	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Sweden

Hagberg

Göran Hagberg

Sweden

B.date08/11/1947

Age28 years

H1m83

positionGoalkeeper

Werner46

Mats Werner

Sweden

B.date01/06/1953

Age23 years

positionDefender

Karlsson

Kent Karlsson

Sweden

B.date25/11/1945

Age30 years

H1m82

positionLeft central defender

Nordqvist

Bjorn Nordqvist

Sweden

B.date06/10/1942

Age33 years

positionCentral defender

Borg

Hans Borg

Sweden

B.date04/08/1953

Age23 years

positionDefender

Larsson

Lennart Larsson

Sweden

B.date09/07/1953

Age23 years

positionMidfield

Torstensson53

Conny Torstensson

Sweden

B.date28/08/1949

Age27 years

H1m80

positionMidfield

Linderoth

Anders Linderoth

Sweden

B.date21/03/1950

Age26 years

H1m70

positionMidfield

Andersson

Björn Andersson

Sweden

B.date20/07/1951

Age25 years

H1m77

positionMidfield

Nilsson

Torbjörn Nilsson

Sweden

B.date09/07/1954

Age22 years

H1m90

positionStriker

Sjöberg82

Thomas Sjöberg

Sweden

B.date06/07/1952

Age24 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Göran Hagberg		28	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mats Werner	46	23	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kent Karlsson		30	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Bjorn Nordqvist		33	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Hans Borg		23	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Lennart Larsson		23	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Conny Torstensson	53	27	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Anders Linderoth		26	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Björn Andersson		25	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Torbjörn Nilsson		22	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Thomas Sjöberg	82	24	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Paal Jacobsen	8777	20	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Steinar Aase	77	21	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Olle Nordin	46	26	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Göran Hagberg

Ronnie Hellström

OUT

Lennart Larsson

Bo Börjesson

OUT

Kent Karlsson

Hakan Arvidsson

OUT

Hans Borg

Benny Wendt

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Nils Arne Eggen

Success rate in this team:

25 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

35 %

Eggen vs Sweden

1 victory

0 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on September 22, 1976

Eggen vs Ericson

1 victory

0 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on September 22, 1976

Manager

Age

Match num

Georg Ericson

Success rate in this team:

47 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

51 %

Ericson vs Norway

6 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 22, 1976

Ericson vs Eggen

4 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 22, 1976

Referee

Gunnar Hellgren

1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Norway1 match	General total	Sweden1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Norway1 match	Season total	Sweden1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on September 22, 1976					Latest figure on September 22, 1976

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Key figures

Norway keeps its 10 consecutive matches without a draw vs Sweden running (since 09/10/1968). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 22/09/1935-19/09/1948 time period (14 matches).

Norway keeps its 10 matches with at least 2 goals conceded vs Sweden running (since 09/10/1968). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 17/09/1939-05/10/1952 time period (11 matches).

Norway keeps its 6 consecutive matches without a draw vs Sweden in Nordic Football Championship running (since 01/06/1969). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 16/09/1962 (3 matches)

Read the next 14 key stats

General ranking

	1	Sweden	16 pts	10 rd
	2	Denmark	13 pts	10 rd
+1	3	Norway	6 pts	10 rd
-1	4	Finland	5 pts	10 rd

General ranking

	1	Sweden	16 pts	10 rd
	2	Denmark	13 pts	10 rd
+1	3	Norway	6 pts	10 rd
-1	4	Finland	5 pts	10 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VNorway 3-2 Iceland17/07/1975

LNorway 0-2 Sweden13/08/1975

LNorway 1-3 Soviet Union28/08/1975

LNorway 0-1 Iceland19/05/1976

DNorway 0-0 Denmark24/06/1976

VNorway 1-0 Switzerland08/09/1976

Overall

LIreland 3-0 Norway24/03/1976

LNorway 0-1 Iceland19/05/1976

LSweden 2-0 Norway16/06/1976

DNorway 0-0 Denmark24/06/1976

LDenmark 3-0 Norway25/08/1976

VNorway 1-0 Switzerland08/09/1976

Current form

Away

VNorthern Ireland 1-2 Sweden03/09/1975

LYugoslavia 3-0 Sweden15/10/1975

DTunisia 1-1 Sweden28/02/1976

VAlgeria B 0-2 Sweden02/03/1976

LAustria 1-0 Sweden28/04/1976

VFinland 0-2 Sweden01/06/1976

Overall

LAustria 1-0 Sweden28/04/1976

LSweden 1-2 Denmark11/05/1976

VFinland 0-2 Sweden01/06/1976

VSweden 2-0 Norway16/06/1976

VSweden 6-0 Finland11/08/1976

DSweden 1-1 Hungary08/09/1976

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	2	1
Drawless streak	1	2
Scoring streak	1	1
Invincibility streak	2	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Drawing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	1	4
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	3	0
Scoring streak	1	5
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	0

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

4	General ranking (Competition total)	1
4	General ranking (Home / Away)	1

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

9	Number of games (Competition total)	9
4	Number of games (Home / Away)	4
1	Victories (Competition total)	7
0	Victories (Home / Away)	4
2	Draws (Competition total)	2
1	Draws (Home / Away)	0
6	Losses (Competition total)	0
3	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

8	Goals scored (Competition total)	20
2	Goals scored (Home / Away)	9
15	Goals conceded (Competition total)	4
6	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	2
0.89	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2.22
0.5	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	2.25
1.67	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.44
1.5	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0.5

Betting aid

5	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	4
2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	2
2	Clean sheets (Competition total)	5
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
5	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	1
2	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
4	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	4
2	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	2
1-3 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	2-0 (2 times)

Bookings

0	Yellow cards (Competition total)	0
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Jan Fuglset	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	3 goals	Conny Torstensson
Jan Fuglset	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Conny Torstensson
Jan Fuglset	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Anders Ljungberg
Jan Fuglset	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Harry Hestad	1 goal during the last 5 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last match	Thomas Sjöberg

Historical head to head

Home

41 matches

11 v

7 d

23 l

57 gf

92 ga

Away

44 matches

6 v

10 d

28 l

63 gf

154 ga

Neutral ground

2 matches

1 v

0 d

1 l

2 gf

4 ga

Total

87 matches

18 v

17 d

52 l

122 gf

250 ga

Historical head to head

Home

44 matches

28 v

10 d

6 l

154 gf

63 ga

Away

41 matches

23 v

7 d

11 l

92 gf

57 ga

Neutral ground

2 matches

1 v

0 d

1 l

4 gf

2 ga

Total

87 matches

52 v

17 d

18 l

250 gf

122 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 1	September 14, 1919
Home	3 - 1	September 03, 1967

Largest victory

Overall	10 - 0	October 21, 1945
Away	5 - 0	September 24, 1922

Latest head to head

June 16, 1976 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Europe 1978

Sweden

2 - 0

Norway

August 13, 1975 - Eliminatoires Euro 1976

Norway

0 - 2

Sweden

June 30, 1975 - Eliminatoires Euro 1976

Sweden

3 - 1

Norway

August 08, 1974 - Nordic Tournament 1972/1977

Sweden

2 - 1

Norway

September 17, 1972 - Nordic Tournament 1972/1977

Norway

1 - 3

Sweden

Best historical scorers against Sweden

Einar Gundersen	10 goals	1917 - 1927
Jorgen Juve	7 goals	1929 - 1932
Kaare Engebretsen	6 goals	1915 - 1919
Finn Berstad	5 goals	1924 - 1927
Reidar Kvammen	4 goals	1936 - 1937
Adolph Wold	3 goals	1915 - 1919

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 12/07/1908. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Norway

Gunnar Nordahl	13 goals	1945 - 1948
Karl Gustafsson	13 goals	1908 - 1918
Sven Rydell	13 goals	1923 - 1927
Helge Ekroth	11 goals	1911 - 1917
Ivar Svensson	8 goals	1912 - 1916
Arne Nyberg	6 goals	1938 - 1946

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 12/07/1908. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Sweden

Gunner Anderson	21 matches	1911 - 1923
Per Skou	20 matches	1911 - 1923
Einar Gundersen	14 matches	1917 - 1928
Adolph Wold	13 matches	1912 - 1921
Otto Aulie	12 matches	1913 - 1921
Reidar Kvammen	11 matches	1934 - 1946

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 12/07/1908. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Norway

Ragnar Wicksell	11 matches	1912 - 1921
Helge Ekroth	11 matches	1911 - 1921
Karl Gustafsson	10 matches	1908 - 1920
Rune Bergstrom	10 matches	1913 - 1922
Theodor Malm	10 matches	1908 - 1919
Erik Persson	9 matches	1931 - 1939