Graham Potter has been appointed as Sweden’s new head coach on a slightly uncommon short-term foundation, the nation’s FA confirmed.
Rumours of the Englishman’s imminent return to administration started to swirl when the yellow-and-blues parted methods with Jon Dahl Tomasson final week.
The previous Denmark striker, who had been broadly unpopular with Swedish followers throughout his closing weeks in cost, was dismissed because the nation’s boss after a humiliating dwelling defeat to Kosovo.
Potter later expressed his need to handle Sweden, the place he made his identify as a supervisor, admitting that it might be a ‘implausible’ job.
And his appointment was confirmed on Sunday night following talks, with Potter set to take over the Scandinavian nation on a deal till simply March 2026.
The 50-year-old will take cost of his new facet’s closing two qualifiers early subsequent month, together with his contract set to be prolonged if Sweden safe a play-off place for the North American World Cup.
Graham Potter has been appointed as Sweden’s supervisor on a short-term foundation till March 2026
The 50-year-old will see his contract prolonged if his facet safe a play-off place for subsequent summer time’s World Cup
He takes over an unperforming Swedish facet who sit all-time low of their World Cup qualifying group
Upon his appointment, Potter stated: ‘I’m very humble concerning the project, but in addition impressed.
‘Sweden has implausible gamers who ship in the very best leagues each week. My job might be to create the situations in order that we as a workforce ship on the highest degree to take Sweden to the World Cup subsequent summer time.’
Potter takes over a Sweden facet together with Premier League stars Alexander Isak, Viktor Gyokeres, Victor Lindelof, Anthony Elanga and Lucas Bergvall which has unperformed this yr.
Again-to-back losses towards Kosovo and a 2-0 defeat at dwelling towards Switzerland go away them backside of their qualifying marketing campaign with only a solitary level.
Neither Isak or Gyokeres have registered a single aim in any of Sweden’s 4 qualifying video games, with Tomasson admitting his facet had ‘forgot’ rating following his closing match in cost.
Potter’s appointment sees him return to Sweden seven years after leaving the nation for the English sport.
He had loved seven vastly profitable years as supervisor of Ostersunds FK, main the membership from the fourth tier of Swedish soccer to the highest flight.
He went on to handle to Swansea Metropolis, Brighton and later Chelsea within the Premier League earlier than a dire spell at West Ham United this yr.
Jon Dahl Tomasson was dismissed final week after a 1-0 dwelling loss to European minnows Kosovo
Potter was sacked by West Ham after a tough interval in control of the east London membership
The Hammers parted methods with the 50-year-old late final month after a disappointing begin to the season, with the London membership dropping 4 of their opening 5 Premier League video games.
Potter, who additionally oversaw West Ham’s 3-2 defeat by Wolves within the Carabao Cup, was changed by former Nottingham Forest supervisor Nuno Espirito Santo.
The Portuguese has nevertheless didn’t win both of his first two video games on the helm, leaving West Ham languishing in nineteenth place.
They host Brentford this night on the London Stadium Stadium.
