Emil Bergkvist

Emil Bergkvist (born 17 June 1994) is a Swedish rally driver.^[1] He has competed in the World Rally Championship since 2015.

Emil Bergkvist

Bergkvist during Dakar 2025
Personal information
Nationality	Swedish
Born	(1994-06-17) 17 June 1994 (age 31) Sweden
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2015–2019 - 2021
Rallies	20[a]
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	0
Total points	1
First rally	2015 Rally Sweden
Last updated on: 1.3.2021.

Emil Bergkvist
Dakar Rally
Years active	2021–present
Teams	Audi Sport, M-Sport Ford
Starts	3
Wins	0
Podiums	1
Best finish	3rd in 2025

Bergkvist is the 2018 Junior World Rally Champion^[2][3] and the 2015 Junior European Rally Champion.^[4]

Since 2021 Emil Bergkvist is a rally-raid co-driver for Swedish driver Mattias Ekström. Together they have entered Dakar Rally as works crew for Audi. Since 2025 Bergkvist together with Ekström are racing for Ford M-Sport.

Career results

WRC results

As driver

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos	Points
2015	Emil Bergkvist	Opel Adam R2	MON	SWE 32	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN							NC	0
	ADAC Opel Rallye Junior Team										GER 22	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR
2016	Emil Bergkvist	Citroën DS3 R5	MON	SWE 17	MEX	ARG	POR Ret	ITA	POL Ret	FIN 51	GER	CHN C	FRA	ESP	GBR	AUS	NC	0
2017	Emil Bergkvist	Citroën DS3 R5	MON 17	SWE 17	MEX	FRA 32	ARG	POR Ret	ITA	POL	FIN	GER 19	ESP	GBR Ret	AUS		NC	0
2018	Emil Bergkvist	Ford Fiesta R2T	MON	SWE 24	MEX	FRA 22	ARG	POR 34	ITA	FIN 20	GER	TUR 17	GBR	ESP	AUS		NC	0
2019	Emil Bergkvist	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE 14	MEX	FRA	ARG	CHL	POR 10	ITA WD	FIN	GER	TUR	GBR	ESP	AUS C	27th	1

As co-driver

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos	Points
2021	Mattias Ekström	Škoda Fabia R5 Evo	MON	ARC 19	CRO	POR	ITA	KEN	EST	BEL	GRE	FIN	ESP	MNZ	NC	0

WRC-2 results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos	Points
2016	Emil Bergkvist	Citroën DS3 R5	MON	SWE 7	MEX	ARG	POR Ret	ITA	POL Ret	FIN 13	GER	CHN C	FRA	ESP	GBR	AUS	35th	6
2017	Emil Bergkvist	Citroën DS3 R5	MON 6	SWE 6	MEX	FRA 9	ARG	POR Ret	ITA	POL	FIN	GER 10	ESP	GBR Ret	AUS		17th	19
2019	Emil Bergkvist	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE 4	MEX	FRA	ARG	CHL	POR 2	ITA WD	FIN	GER	TUR	GBR	ESP	AUS C	15th	30

WRC-3 results

As driver

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Pos.	Points
2018	Emil Bergkvist	Ford Fiesta R2T	MON	SWE 2	MEX	FRA 3	ARG	POR 5	ITA	FIN 2	GER	TUR 1	GBR	ESP	AUS	3rd	86

As co-driver

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Points
2021	Mattias Ekström	Škoda Fabia R5 Evo	MON	ARC 5	CRO	POR	ITA	KEN	EST	BEL	GRE	FIN	ESP	MNZ	36th	12

JWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	Pos	Points
2018	Emil Bergkvist	Ford Fiesta R2T	SWE 2	FRA 3	POR 5	FIN 2	TUR 1	1st	138

ERC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pos.	Points
2015	ADAC Opel Rallye Junior Team	Opel Adam R2	JÄN	LIE 7	IRE 10	AZO 19	YPR Ret	EST 11	CZE 16	CYP	GRE		11th	32
	Saintéloc Junior Team	Peugeot 208 T16 R5										VAL 4

ERC Junior results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	Pos.	Points
2015	ADAC Opel Rallye Junior Team	Opel Adam R2	LIE 1	IRE 1	AZO 4	YPR Ret	EST 2	CZE 1	1st	147

Dakar Rally results

Year	Class	Vehicle	Position	Stages won
2021	Light Prototype	Yamaha	DNF	0
2022	Car	Audi	9th	1
2023			14th	1
2024			26th	2
2025		Ford	3rd	1

Notes

1. Bergkvist has started 19 rallies as a driver and one as a co-driver.