UNITED IN SWEDEN
Our links with the Scandinavian country go back decades, to a Fairs Cup meeting with Djurgarden in 1964. Our other competitive clashes with a Swedish team came 30 years later, when IFK Gothenburg were a Champions League group-stage opponent.
Jesper Blomqvist, an impressive member of that Gothenburg side, became our first Swedish player in 1998 and five of his compatriots have since followed, including national-team captains Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrik Larsson and Victor Lindelof.
Ibrahimovic made his first United appearance when we played Galatasaray in Gothenburg in 2016, four years after we’d faced Barcelona in Sweden’s second city.
The venue for this game – the Strawberry Arena – hosted the Europa League final in 2017, when we beat Ajax 2-0.