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1937–47 Nordic Football Championship

Field	Value
tourney_name	Nordic Football Championship
year	1937–47
country	Denmark
country2	Finland
country3	Norway
country4	Sweden
dates	13 June 1937 – 10 October 1947
num_teams	4
venues	5
cities	5
champion	Sweden
count	2
second	Denmark
third	Norway
fourth	Finland
matches	24
goals	118
top_scorer	SWE Gunnar Nordahl
(7 goals)
prevseason	[1933–36](1933-36-nordic-football-championship)
nextseason	[1948–51](1948-51-nordic-football-championship)

(7 goals)

The 1937–47 Nordic Football Championship was the fourth Nordic Football Championship staged. Four Nordic countries participated, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The tournament was arranged by the Football Association of Finland. The trophy was named Suomen Karhut (Finnish Bears). The tournament which was originally supposed to end in 1940, but the Second World War interrupted it and the last six matches were not played until 1947.

Results

1937

Søbirk K. Hansen Rasmussen

Persson Svanström

Isaksen Kvammen Bunke

Søbirk

Friedmann

1938

Brustad Kvammen Andersen Arnesen

Granström Bergström Nyberg

Lehtonen

Nyberg Brynildsen Nordahl

1939

Persson Grahn

Yven Lennartsson

Thiesen Lindbäck Jørgensen Albrechtsen Søbirk

Johansson Nyström Dahl

Friedmann Jørgensen

1947

Liedholm Lindskog

Nordahl Gren Turunen

Myntti Sørensen Brynildsen

Osnes J. Hansen Præst

Præst Sørensen

Nordahl Gren

Table

Team	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	12	9	0	3	41	16	+25
2	12	7	1	4	34	21	+13
3	12	5	2	5	31	30	+1
4	12	1	1	10	12	51	–39

Winners

Statistics

Goalscorers

SWE Gunnar Nordahl
SWE Erik Persson
NOR Arne Brustad
SWE Arne Nyberg
SWE Nils Liedholm
DEN Karl Aage Præst
DEN Pauli Jørgensen
DEN Helmuth Søbirk
NOR Reidar Kvammen
DEN Jørgen Wagner Hansen
DEN Oskar Theisen
NOR Alf Martinsen
NOR Torkild Andersen
NOR Knut Brynildsen
SWE Lennart Bunke
DEN Alex Friedmann
DEN Kaj Hansen
DEN Knud Andersen
DEN Svend Albrechtsen
FIN Holger Granström
FIN Nuutti Lintamo
FIN Stig-Göran Myntti
NOR Magnar Isaksen
NOR Trygve Arnesen
NOR Knut Osnes
SWE Floyd Lagerkrantz
SWE Ragnar Lennartsson
SWE Gunnar Gren
DEN Arne Sørensen
DEN Arno Nielsen
DEN Eyolf Kleven
DEN Jørgen Leschly Sørensen
DEN Karl Aage Hansen
DEN Peder Rasmussen
FIN Aatos Lehtonen
FIN Pentti Eronen
FIN Eino Mäkelä
FIN Harry Reunanen
FIN Olof Stolpe
NOR Gunnar Dahlen
NOR Gunnar Thoresen
NOR Hans Nordahl
NOR Harry Yven
NOR Olav Navestad
NOR Odd Wang Sørensen
SWE Åke Andersson
SWE Gösta Dahl
SWE Karl-Erik Grahn
SWE Kurt Svanström
SWE Knut Johansson
SWE Georg Johansson
SWE Gunnar Bergström
SWE Lennart Lindskog
SWE Stig Nyström
FIN Leo Turunen (against Sweden)
FIN Ragnar Lindbäck (against Denmark)
NOR Gunnar Hansen (against Denmark)
SWE Harry Nilsson (against Finland)

References

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