2018 World Cup in Russia: Sweden - England (quarter-final, Saturday 07/07/2018, 16:00 CET)

The England football team has nearly 13.2 million fans on social media (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), upon which the Swedish team does not have official account, as the two teams prepare to face each other in the quarter-finals of the 2018 World Cup at the Samara Arena (45,000 capacity) in Samara (RUS) on Saturday 07/07/2018 (kick-off at 18:00, local time, 16:00 CET).

Harry Kane, the most popular English player on these social networks with more than 9.1 million fans, has nearly 15 times more than John Guidetti, the most popular Swedish player in this field (605,000 fans).

In terms of the value of equipment supplier contracts (fixed amount and equipment revenue, excluding bonuses), the Football Association receives €37.5m per year (until 2030) from Nike, while the the amount paid by adidas to the Swedish Federation (Svenska Fotbollförbundet, SvFF) amounts to €2.2m (until 2019).

In terms of World Cup trophies, England leads Sweden 1-0 with their home victory in 1966. The Swedes have reached the final of the competition once as the host country of the 1958 edition.

The squad…