After this summer's European Championship finals, Andreas Granqvist, Sebastian Larsson, Mikael Lustig, Pontus Jansson, Marcus Berg and Gustav Svensson thanked everyone.
Thus, there were some changes in the national team squad.
Players like Pontus Dahlberg, Joakim Nilsson, Jesper Karlsson, Carl Starfelt and Isaac Kiese Thelin got the chance.
Dahlberg replaces Karl-Johan Johnsson who has had some playing time lately.
Other names have been in the national team a few times.
Between the qualifying matches that will be played on September 2 (Spain in Stockholm) and September 8 (Greece in Athens), there will also be an international match against Uzbekistan in Stockholm.
- There are two very, very tough matches.
On the other hand, we have put ourselves in a good position when we won two matches.
We enter with good self-confidence, says Andersson.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic was not included in the squad due to injury.