1948–51_Nordic_Football_Championship
1948–51 Nordic Football Championship
Sports event
The 1948–51 Nordic Football Championship was the fifth Nordic Football Championship staged. Four Nordic countries participated: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Sweden won the tournament, its third Nordic Championship win. The tournament was arranged by the Danish Football Association and the trophy was named DBU's Vase.
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host countries | Denmark Finland Norway Sweden |
| Dates | 12 June 1948 – 21 October 1951 |
| Teams | 4 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Sweden (3rd title) |
| Runners-up |  Denmark |
| Third place |  Norway |
| Fourth place |  Finland |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 24 |
| Goals scored | 89 (3.71 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Egon Jönsson (7 goals) |
← 1937–47 1952–55 → | |
The tournament had three occasions of a team playing two games on the same day, including two times for Sweden and one time for Denmark.
1948
| Finland | 2-2 | Sweden |
|---|---|---|
Lehtovirta  37'Rytkönen 43' |
Report | Tapper 36' (pen.) Mårtensson 70' |
1949
| Sweden | 8-1 | Finland |
|---|---|---|
| Jönsson 7', 9', 17' Rydell 24', 75', 83'Palmér 41'Jacobsson 89' |
Report | Vaihela 4' |
1950
1951
| Sweden | 3-4 | Norway |
|---|---|---|
| Rydell 13', 52' Lind 23' (pen.) |
Report | Karlsen 5' (pen.), 71' (pen.) Dahlen 6'Bredesen 64' |
The table is compiled by awarding two points for a victory, one point for a draw, and no points for a loss.
| 1948–51 Nordic Football Championship winners |
|---|
 Sweden Third title |
Goalscorers
There were 89 goals scored in 24 matches, for an average of 3.71 goals per match.
7 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
Edvin Hansen- Jens Peder Hansen
- Hilmar Staalgaard
- Poul Erik Petersen
Yrjö Asikainen
Gunnar Dahlen- Villy Andersen
Arne Lundqvist- Hasse Jeppson
- Karl-Erik Palmér
1 goal
- Aage Rou Jensen
- Claes Petersen
- Frank Reckendorff
- Kaj Christiansen
- Harald Lyngsaa
- Holger Seebach
- Ivan Jensen
- John Hansen
- Jørgen Wagner Hansen
- Knud Lundberg
- Poul Åge Rasmussen
- Aulis Rytkönen
- Olavi Lilja
- Harald Hennum
- Bror Mellberg
- Börje Tapper
- Gustaf Lind
- Karl Simonsson
- Karl-Alfred Jacobsson
- John Eriksson
- Lennart Lindskog
- Nils Liedholm
- Rune Rosén
- Sture Mårtensson
- Sylve Bengtsson
- Tryggve Granqvist
- Walfrid Ek
1 own goal
- Bendt Jørgensen (against Norway)
Balkan Cup
Baltic Cup
Central European International Cup
Mediterranean Cup
- Aarhus, Lars; Elbech, Søren & Pietarinen, Heikki (1998-03-27). "Nordic Championships 1948-51". RSSSF. Retrieved 2010-02-03.
- "Landsholdsdatabasen - Kampsøgning" (in Danish). DBU. Retrieved 2010-02-03.