Gre-No-Li - Goals in International Matches

The famous Swedish striking trio of Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm played together in 15 matches for their National Team, in which they combined for 42 goals; only the Netherlands (in a match which also featured het gouden binnentrio, with Faas Wilkes scoring the only goal of the match) and Denmark (at the prize of allowing both Henry Karlsson and Kjell Rosén to score a first half brace) once managed to keep all three from scoring.

Cap  Goals Date Venue    Opponent       Score Competition
     G N L  T

 1     2 1  3 15- 6-47   København       Denmark         4-1     Nordic Champ.
 2     1    4 26- 6-47   Stockholm       Denmark         6-1
 3     4    8 28- 6-47   Helsinki        Norway          5-1
 4   1 3 2 14 24- 8-47   Borås           Finland         7-0     Nordic Champ.
 5   1 2 1 18  5-10-47   Stockholm       Norway          4-1     Nordic Champ.
 6   1 1   20 19-11-47   London          England         2-4
 7         20  9- 6-48   Amsterdam       Netherlands     0-1 [!]
 8   2   1 23 11- 7-48   Stockholm       Austria         3-2
 9     2   25  2- 8-48   London          Austria         3-0     Olympic Games
10   1 4 2 32  5- 8-48   London          Korea          12-0     Olympic Games
11         32 10- 8-48   London          Denmark         4-2     Olympic Games
12   2 1   35 13- 8-48   London          Yugoslavia      3-1     Olympic Games
13     5   40 19- 9-48   Oslo            Norway          5-3     Nordic Champ.
14       1 41 10-10-48   Stockholm       Denmark         1-0     Nordic Champ.
15   1     42 14-11-48   Wien            Austria         1-2

[!] this match also featured the famous gouden binnentrio for the Netherlands

Total Record

Matches  Won Draw Lost  For Against  Points  Percentage
    15    12    0    3   82-  33      24       80.00

42 Goals (Nordahl 25, Gren 9, Liedholm 8) in 15 Matches (% 2.80 per match)


Types of Goal
                      Goals Matches Goals by Player
Friendlies              11    6     (Gren  4, Nordahl  6, Liedholm  1)
Nordic Championship     19    5     (Gren  2, Nordahl 12, Liedholm  5)
Olympic Games           12    4     (Gren  3, Nordahl  7, Liedholm  2)

Total goals:            42   15     (Gren  9, Nordahl 25, Liedholm  8)

About this document

Prepared and maintained by Karel Stokkermans for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Karel Stokkermans
Last updated: 18 Apr 2024