Sven-Göran Eriksson (Swedish pronunciation: [svɛnˈjœ̂ːran ˈêːrɪkˌsɔn] ⓘ; 5 February 1948 – 26 August 2024) was a Swedish football player and manager.

After a playing career as a right-back, Eriksson went on to experience major success in club management between 1977 and 2001, winning 18 trophies with a variety of league clubs in Sweden, Portugal, and Italy. In European competition, he won both the UEFA Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup (the last edition of the latter trophy before its abolition) and reached the final of the European Cup.

Eriksson made his debut for Swedish football Division 4 team Torsby at the age of 16.[7] He switched clubs to Sifhälla after moving to Säffle to study economics.[8] In 1972, he joined Swedish football Division 2 team Karlskoga, where he also worked as a physical education teacher in Örebro.[9]

Eriksson was heavily influenced by Karlskoga's player-manager, Tord Grip, who favoured the English style of play that Bob Houghton and Roy Hodgson had brought to the country.[9] Eriksson retired from playing in 1975 at the age of 27, after giving up on his dream of playing professional football; he summed up his brief playing career by saying: "I was looked upon as a distinctly average defender, but someone who rarely made mistakes".[10]