Sven-Goran Eriksson died £3.7million in debt after years of financial mismanagement and fraud by his former financial adviser, it has been revealed.
The former England manager owed a total of £8.64 million (118 million Swedish crowns) and had a fortune of £4.8 million, leaving his estate with a significant deficit.
The largest share of the new figures was tax debts in Britain, owed to HMRC, totaling £7.25 million, according to Swedish news channel Göteborgs-Posten.
The Swede said several times that despite his illustrious football career, he had little control over his finances. In 2017 he told Expressen: 'I have no idea how much money I have and where it is.'
He admitted that he was close to bankruptcy at one point after losing £10 million to financial adviser Samir Khan, to whom he entrusted his fortune in 2007.
He later took Khan to court and won, receiving an apology but saying he never got the money back.
The luxury country house where Svennis spent the last years of his life is now for sale for what is being described as a 'bargain'.
On the shores of Lake Fryken, Björkefors Manor is set on a vast and secluded estate, complete with beautifully maintained gardens, woodlands and a private beach.
It was put up for sale several times in the 2010s, but Svennis was seemingly able to keep the property until the end of his life.
The Swedish football legend died last August at the age of 76 from pancreatic cancer. His beloved home of 22 years, the old farmhouse, was put up for sale shortly after his death.
The estate inventory was submitted to the Swedish tax authorities on Tuesday.
The records also show that Sven's funeral, which took place on September 13 at the Fryksände Church in Torsby, cost 650,000 krone, or about £48,000, plus a headstone for 30,000 Korna, or £2,200.
The Swedish coach had a number of well-paid jobs during his managerial career, the most memorable being his five-year spell as Three Lions boss between 2001 and 2006.
It was estimated that he had received around £7 million in payouts from England, Manchester City and Mexico alone.
In the book 'A Beautiful Game', published shortly after his death, Eriksson made the revelation that, despite his brilliant career as a manager, he had at one point almost been bankrupt.
He expressed regret for handing over his financial responsibilities to Khan, whom he later described as the “only person on earth I hate.”
Eriksson reportedly met Khan in Dubai in 2004 and hired him to manage his finances three years later when he became Man City boss.
He admitted he failed to heed warnings about Khan, reportedly causing him to lose an estimated £10 million of his fortune.
'If I had done that, I could have saved a lot of money. I've had a few blows in my life. Samir Khan was responsible for the worst,” Eriksson said, according to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.
“He, whom I trusted to take care of my money, caused me to lose 100 million kroner.
'I sued him and won in court, but I never got any money back. So even though I was making so much money, things were really bad for me for a while, I was close to personal bankruptcy.”
Eriksson had taken legal action in 2010 after he became concerned and asked Deloitte to carry out checks on Khan a year earlier.
His lawyers argued that Khan made negligent investments and “earned secret profits paid to himself.”
Khan is said to have bought a house in Barbados in Eriksson's name and taken out loans on the property, before doing the same with his mansion in Bjorkefors.
Svennis bought the mansion in the early days of his career as England manager in 2002 for 5.8 million Swedish kronor (£420,000) and carried out a complete renovation of the late 19th century property.
The property's value shot up to a whopping £4 million in the 2010s, but now the price tag has dropped to around half that – with a starting price of SEK 25 million (£1.8 million).
The property probably captured Sven's heart because of its charm, but also because of the fact that it is located between Sunne, the town where Eriksson was born, and Torsby, where he grew up.
Much of the international football manager's family still lives in the city, including his 95-year-old father, and his funeral was held there last year.
The house is located in a remote area overlooking a mountain, about a four-hour drive west of Stockholm.
Eriksson was with former partner, Italian lawyer and TV star Nancy Dell'Olio, when he bought the house in the early 2000s.
According to Swedish newspaper Afton Bladet, he decided to buy the waterfront mansion during a party on a boat on the lake it overlooks.
Svennis lived with Yaniseth, his partner of more than 15 years, and the couple were photographed in 2014 enjoying dinner with their children in the home's dining room.
According to agent Sotheby's, he has “put his personal stamp on both the interior and exterior” of the seven-bedroom property.
The 13-room house covers 835 square meters and has a high-end kitchen, multiple reception rooms for entertaining, a library and six bathrooms.
A detached villa was built on the site in 2005 and there is also a detached guest house near the waterfront.
Outside is a 2,500-square-foot pool house complete with a saltwater pool, spa, sauna, jacuzzi, relaxation room and gym.
The estate is also complete with a tennis court, waterfront gazebos, a jetty, a motorized floating platform and a lagoon-shaped sandy bay.
The former Three Lions manager spent his days in the lavish home with his partner Yaniseth Alcides, and said shortly before his death that he would like his ashes to be spread along the lake he considered his 'home'.
During the summer months, Eriksson is said to have had two part-time employees on site to help him run the sprawling estate.
Sotheby's agent Henrik Flinta told local media that a Swede living in Switzerland had expressed interest in the property before Christmas.
'There are many international buyers who have started looking at Sweden. When it gets too hot in some parts of the world, like Spain, they come here,” he said.
Despite being on the market for more than five months and being offered at a lower price than before, Sven's beloved home is still looking for a buyer.
Speaking about Lake Fryken in a documentary released shortly before his death last year, the football boss said the area felt 'like home'.
In a video shared by Amazon Prime Video Sport just days before his death, he was filmed sitting next to his “calming” Swedish lake home, where he said he wished his ashes would be scattered.
Sitting at Lake Fryken, he says in the documentary: 'Beautiful place. It makes you calm. Makes me calm.'
Pointing ahead he said, “The mountain, under that mountain, is where my father grew up.
'And if you look straight ahead, that's Torsby, where I grew up, and Sunne, where I was born.
'I always thought it was a great place to sleep…' [my] ashes could be thrown here. It feels like home.'
Eriksson became the first foreign manager of the England national team in 2001 and was in charge of 67 matches until 2006.
He led the talented side to the quarter-finals of the 2002 and 2006 World Cups, and at the 2004 European Championships.
He also managed Swedish, Portuguese and Italian clubs, winning major trophies in the 1980s and 1990s before taking up the England job.
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