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Without a doubt, football is the largest sport in Sweden, whether judged on the numbers of spectators or active players. The sport has always had intimate connections with the more general political and social developments in the country. Swedish football has been a mixture of voluntary and commercial forces and has developed hand in hand with the social democratic model of the welfare state. Sweden has been a successful football country in many ways; national teams, male- and females, have performed well in various tournaments throughout football history. Football attracts people from the whole society, both players and spectators; the supporter culture is lively and widespread but there has been, and still is, challenges when it comes to football-related violence.
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Radmann, A., Andersson, T. (2018). Sweden. In: De Waele, JM., Gibril, S., Gloriozova, E., Spaaij, R. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Football and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78777-0_8
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