Switzerland national football team

Switzerland

Nickname(s)	Schweizer Nati
Association	Swiss Football Association
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Ottmar Hitzfeld
Captain	Gökhan Inler
Most caps	Heinz Hermann (117)
Top scorer	Alexander Frei (42)
FIFA code	SUI
FIFA ranking	17
Highest FIFA ranking	3 (August 1993)
Lowest FIFA ranking	83 (December 1998)
Elo ranking	24
Highest Elo ranking	8 (June 1924)
Lowest Elo ranking	62 (October 1979)
Home colours
First international
France 1–0 Switzerland (Paris, France; 12 February 1905)
Biggest win
Switzerland 9–0 Lithuania  (Paris, France; 25 May 1924)
Biggest defeat
Hungary 9–0 Switzerland (Budapest, Hungary; 29 October 1911)
World Cup
Appearances	9 (First in 1934)
Best result	Quarter-finals, 1934, 1938 and 1954
European Championship
Appearances	3 (First in 1996)
Best result	Round 1, 1996, 2004 and 2008

Olympic medal record
Men’s Football
Silver	1924 Paris	Team

The Swiss national football team (also known as the Schweizer Nati in German, La Nati in French, Squadra nazionale in Italian) is the national football team of Switzerland. The team is controlled by the Swiss Football Association.

The team's logo, ASF-SFV, represents the Swiss Football Association's initials in Switzerland's official languages: ASF represents both French (Association Suisse de Football) and Italian (Associazione Svizzera di Football), and SFV is German (Schweizerischer Fussballverband). In Romansh, the association is abbreviated as ASB (Associaziun Svizra da Ballape).

Its best performances in the World Cup have been reaching the quarter-finals three times, in 1934, 1938 and when the country hosted the event in 1954. Switzerland also won silver at the 1924 Olympics. The youth teams have been more successful, winning the 2002 U-17 European Championship and the 2009 U-17 World Cup.

In 2006, Switzerland set a FIFA World Cup record by being eliminated from the competition despite not conceding a goal, losing to Ukraine in a penalty shootout in the last 16, by failing to score a single penalty – becoming the first national team in Cup history to do this.^[1] They would not concede a goal until their second group stage game in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, giving up a goal in the 74th minute against Chile, setting a World Cup Finals record for consecutive minutes without conceding a goal.

Switzerland co-hosted Euro 2008 with Austria, making their third appearance in the competition. As with the two previous appearances, they did not clear the group stages.

Contents 1 Recent history 1.1 Euro 2004 1.2 World Cup 2006 1.3 Euro 2008 1.4 World Cup 2010 1.5 Euro 2012 2 Competitive record 2.1 World Cup record 2.2 European Championship record 3 Match kits 4 Current squad 4.1 Recent call-ups 5 Most appearances and goals 6 Coaches 7 Schedule and recent results 8 References 9 External links

Recent history

Euro 2004

Qualification: Switzerland qualified for the Euro 2004 in Portugal by finishing first in group 10 of the qualifying, ahead of Russia and Ireland.

Group stage: After a 0–0 draw against Croatia, they lost 0–3 against England and 1–3 against France, and thus ended on the last place in group B of the main tournament.

Trivia: Johann Vonlanthen became the youngest scorer ever in the Euro championships when he equalised against France, beating the record (set only four days earlier by Wayne Rooney) by three months.^[2]

World Cup 2006

Qualification: The World Cup 2006 in Germany was the first World Cup for Switzerland since their participation at the World Cup 1994. After finishing second behind France in qualifying group 4, they defeated Turkey in the play-off round 2–0 and 4–2 to qualify for the main tournament.

Group stage: In the group stage, they played again against France. The game played in Stuttgart ended in a goalless draw. After defeating Togo 2–0 in Dortmund and South Korea also 2–0 in Hannover, they finished first in group G and qualified for the knockout stage.

Round of 16: In the second round of the tournament, they faced Ukraine in Cologne. The game had to be decided in a penalty shootout since no goal was scored after 120 minutes. Ukraine won the shootout 3–0.

Trivia: Switzerland was the only team in tournament not to have conceded a goal during regulation time in their matches. Switzerland's top scorer at the tournament was Alexander Frei with 2 goals. When Switzerland lost 3-0 on penalties,that was the first time in history that a team lost on penalties without scoring a single goal in the penalties.

Euro 2008

Qualification: Switzerland co-hosted the Euro 2008 together with Austria and was therefore automatically qualified.

Group stage: Switzerland played all matches of group A in Basel. After losing the opening game 0–1 to the Czech Republic and the second game 1–2 against Turkey, they were already eliminated from their home tournament after only two games. Consolation came from the 2–0 victory over Portugal in the final group stage game.

Trivia: All 3 goals by Switzerland were scored by Hakan Yakin.

World Cup 2010

Qualification: Switzerland played in group 2 of the UEFA qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Despite an embarrassing home loss against Luxembourg(1-2), they finished first in their group, ahead of Greece, Latvia and Israel.

Group stage: In their first game in group H, the team achieved a 1–0 win against Spain, who were the eventual competition winners. Switzerland then lost their second game to Chile and thus needed a win by two goals in the last match against Honduras to advance to the next round. However, they managed only a scoreless draw and eventually placed third in their group.

Trivia: The goal by Mark González in the 75th minute of the game against Chile, ended a 559 minute streak without conceding a goal in World Cup matches, beating the record previously held by Italy by 9 minutes.^[3]

Euro 2012

Qualification

Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  England 8 5 3 0 17 5 +12 18  Montenegro 8 3 3 2 7 7 0 12  Switzerland 8 3 2 3 12 10 +2 11  Wales 8 3 0 5 6 10 −4 9  Bulgaria 8 1 2 5 3 13 −10 5

Bulgaria  — 0–3 0–1 0–0 0–1 England  4–0 — 0–0 2–2 1–0 Montenegro  1–1 2–2 — 1–0 1–0 Switzerland  3–1 1–3 2–0 — 4–1 Wales  0–1 0–2 2–1 2–0 —

Competitive record

So far the Swiss have earned no major trophy. The closest they have come was the quarter finals of the World Cup on three occasions (1934, 1938 and 1954) and they won a silver medal in the 1924 Olympic games in Paris. The youth teams have been more successful, as the U-17-squad became European champions in 2002 and World champions in 2009 and the U-21 squad qualified for the semi-finals of the U-21-Euro 2002.

World Cup record Switzerland's record at FIFA World Cups.[4] Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA 1930 Did Not Enter - - - - - - - 1934 Quarter-finals 7/16 2 1 0 1 5 5 1938 Quarter-finals 7/15 3 1 1 1 5 5 1950 Round 1 6/13 3 1 1 1 4 6 1954 Quarter-finals 8/16 4 2 0 2 11 11 1958 Did not Qualify - - - - - - - 1962 Round 1 16/16 3 0 0 3 2 8 1966 Round 1 16/16 3 0 0 3 1 9 1970 Did not Qualify - - - - - - - 1974 Did not Qualify - - - - - - - 1978 Did not Qualify - - - - - - - 1982 Did not Qualify - - - - - - - 1986 Did not Qualify - - - - - - - 1990 Did not Qualify - - - - - - - 1994 Round of 16 16/24 4 1 1 2 5 7 1998 Did not Qualify - - - - - - - 2002 Did not Qualify - - - - - - - 2006 Round of 16 10/32 4 2 2 0 4 0 2010 Round 1 19/32 3 1 1 1 1 1 2014 2018 2022 Total 9/19 29 9 6 14 38 52

European Championship record Year Round GP W D* L GS GA 1960 Did not qualify - - - - - - 1964 Did not qualify - - - - - - 1968 Did not qualify - - - - - - 1972 Did not qualify - - - - - - 1976 Did not qualify - - - - - - 1980 Did not qualify - - - - - - 1984 Did not qualify - - - - - - 1988 Did not qualify - - - - - - 1992 Did not qualify - - - - - - 1996 Round 1 3 0 1 2 1 4 2000 Did not qualify - - - - - - 2004 Round 1 3 0 1 2 1 6 2008 Round 1 3 1 0 2 3 3 2012 Did not qualify - - - - - - 2016 Total 3/15 9 1 2 6 5 13

*Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Match kits

The Swiss kit consists of two different outfits. The red shirt and white shorts are for home play, and the white shirt and red shorts are for away. The jersey is manufactured by Puma.

Current squad

The following 20 players have been nominated for the friendly matches against Netherlands on November 11 and Luxembourg on November 15, 2011. Caps and goals updated on November 15, 2011.

0#0 Pos. Player Date of Birth (Age) Caps Goals Club 1 GK Diego Benaglio September 8, 1983 (1983-09-08) (age 28) 41 0 VfL Wolfsburg 12 GK Marco Wölfli August 22, 1982 (1982-08-22) (age 29) 10 0 Young Boys 21 GK Johnny Leoni June 30, 1984 (1984-06-30) (age 27) 1 0 Zürich 2 DF Stephan Lichtsteiner January 16, 1984 (1984-01-16) (age 28) 45 1 Juventus 5 DF Steve von Bergen June 10, 1983 (1983-06-10) (age 28) 25 0 Cesena 13 DF Ricardo Rodriguez August 25, 1992 (1992-08-25) (age 19) 4 0 Zürich 20 DF Johan Djourou January 18, 1987 (1987-01-18) (age 25) 30 1 Arsenal 22 DF Timm Klose May 9, 1988 (1988-05-09) (age 23) 3 0 Nuremberg DF Alain Nef February 6, 1982 (1982-02-06) (age 30) 4 1 Young Boys DF Vincent Rüfli January 22, 1988 (1988-01-22) (age 24) 1 0 Servette 7 MF David Degen February 15, 1983 (1983-02-15) (age 29) 17 0 Young Boys 8 MF Gökhan Inler (captain) June 27, 1984 (1984-06-27) (age 27) 54 4 Napoli 15 MF Blerim Džemaili April 12, 1986 (1986-04-12) (age 25) 17 0 Napoli 16 MF Gelson Fernandes September 2, 1986 (1986-09-02) (age 25) 37 2 Leicester City 17 MF Granit Xhaka September 27, 1992 (1992-09-27) (age 19) 6 1 Basel 19 MF Fabian Frei January 8, 1989 (1989-01-08) (age 23) 3 0 Basel 23 MF Xherdan Shaqiri October 10, 1991 (1991-10-10) (age 20) 17 4 Basel MF Moreno Costanzo February 20, 1988 (1988-02-20) (age 23) 7 1 Young Boys 9 FW Eren Derdiyok June 12, 1988 (1988-06-12) (age 23) 37 4 Bayer Leverkusen 14 FW Innocent Emeghara May 27, 1989 (1989-05-27) (age 22) 5 0 Lorient 18 FW Admir Mehmedi March 16, 1991 (1991-03-16) (age 20) 7 0 Zürich

Recent call-ups

The following players have been called up for the team in the last 12 months and are still available for a call up.

Pos. Player Date of Birth (Age) Caps Goals Club Latest Call-up GK Germano Vailati August 30, 1980 (1980-08-30) (age 31) 0 0 St. Gallen v  Bulgaria, March 26, 2011 GK Yann Sommer December 17, 1988 (1988-12-17) (age 23) 0 0 Basel v  Bulgaria, September 6, 2011 DF Philippe Senderos February 14, 1985 (1985-02-14) (age 27) 44 5 Fulham v  Montenegro, October 11, 2011INJ DF Gaetano Berardi August 21, 1988 (1988-08-21) (age 23) 1 0 Sampdoria v  Bulgaria, September 6, 2011INJ DF Beg Ferati November 10, 1986 (1986-11-10) (age 25) 1 0 Freiburg v  Liechtenstein, August 10, 2011 DF François Affolter March 13, 1991 (1991-03-13) (age 20) 4 0 Young Boys v  Bulgaria, March 26, 2011 DF Heinz Barmettler July 21, 1987 (1987-07-21) (age 24) 1 0 Zürich v  Bulgaria, September 6, 2011 DF Philippe Koch February 8, 1991 (1991-02-08) (age 21) 0 0 Zürich v  Montenegro, October 11, 2011 DF Reto Ziegler January 16, 1986 (1986-01-16) (age 26) 27 1 Fenerbahçe v  Luxembourg, November 15, 2011INJ MF Pirmin Schwegler March 9, 1987 (1987-03-09) (age 24) 11 0 Eintracht Frankfurt v  Bulgaria, September 6, 2011INJ MF Tranquillo Barnetta May 22, 1985 (1985-05-22) (age 26) 59 8 Bayer Leverkusen v  Liechtenstein, August 10, 2011INJ MF Fabian Lustenberger May 2, 1988 (1988-05-02) (age 23) 0 0 Hertha BSC v  Liechtenstein, August 10, 2011 MF Xavier Margairaz July 1, 1984 (1984-07-01) (age 27) 18 1 Zürich v  England, June 4, 2011 MF Valentin Stocker April 12, 1989 (1989-04-12) (age 22) 9 3 Basel v  Bulgaria, March 26, 2011INJ MF Marco Padalino December 8, 1983 (1983-12-08) (age 28) 9 1 Sampdoria v  Bulgaria, September 6, 2011 MF Valon Behrami April 19, 1985 (1985-04-19) (age 26) 32 2 Fiorentina v  Luxembourg, November 15, 2011INJ FW Mario Gavranović November 24, 1989 (1989-11-24) (age 22) 2 0 Mainz 05 v  Liechtenstein, August 10, 2011 FW Nassim Ben Khalifa January 13, 1992 (1992-01-13) (age 20) 3 0 Young Boys v  Bulgaria, September 6, 2011

Notes ^INJ Player withdrew from the squad due to an injury.

Most appearances and goals

Most number of appearances and goals for the Swiss national team. Players in bold are still playing for the national team. Last updated after Switzerland vs. Bulgaria, March 26, 2011.^[5]

Most appearances Name Years Caps Heinz Hermann 1978–1991 117 Alain Geiger 1980–1996 112 Stéphane Chapuisat 1989–2004 103 Johann Vogel 1995–2007 94 Hakan Yakin 2000–2011 87 Alexander Frei 2001–2011 84 Patrick Müller 1998–2008 81

Most goals Name Years Caps Goals Alexander Frei 2001–2011 84 42 Kubilay Türkyilmaz 1988–2001 62 34 Max Abegglen 1922–1937 68 34 André Abegglen 1927–1943 52 29 Jacques Fatton 1946–1955 53 29 Adrian Knup 1989–1996 49 26 Josef Hügi 1951–1961 34 23

Coaches

• Karl Rappan 1960 to November 11, 1963
• Alfredo Foni – July 1, 1964 to 3 May 1967
• Erwin Ballabio – May 24, 1967 to November 2, 1969
• Louis Maurer – October 17, 1970 to October 10, 1971
• René Hussy – June 22, 1973 to September 8, 1976
• Miroslav Blažević – September 8, 1976 to March 30, 1977
• Roger Vonlanthen – March 30, 1977 to March 28, 1979
• Leo Walker – May 5, 1979 to December 21, 1980
• Paul Wolfisberg – March 24, 1981 to November 10, 1985
• Daniel Jeandupeux – March 12, 1986 to 26 April 1989
• Uli Stielike – June 21, 1989 to November 13, 1991
• Roy Hodgson – January 26, 1992 to November 15, 1995
• Artur Jorge – March 13, 1996 to June 18, 1996
• Rolf Fringer – August 1, 1996 to October 11, 1997
• Gilbert Gress – March 25, 1998 to October 9, 1999
• Enzo Trossero – August 16, 2000 to June 6, 2001
• Jakob "Köbi" Kuhn – August 15, 2001 – June 30, 2008
• Ottmar Hitzfeld – July 1, 2008 –

Schedule and recent results

Recent results and future matches.^[6] Blue background colour indicates competitive matches.

Date	Competition	Opponent	Venue	Score	Swiss scorers (International goal)	Ref
3 March 2010	Friendly	Uruguay	AFG Arena, St. Gallen	1 – 3	Inler (2nd)	[1]
1 June 2010	Friendly	Costa Rica	Stade Tourbillon, Sion	0 – 1		[2]
5 June 2010	Friendly	Italy	Stade de Genève, Geneva	1 – 1	Inler (3rd)	[3]
16 June 2010	WC2010	Spain	M. Mabhida, Durban	1 – 0	Fernandes (2nd)	[4]
21 June 2010	WC2010	Chile	N. Mandela Bay, Port Elizabeth	0 – 1		[5]
25 June 2010	WC2010	Honduras	Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein	0 – 0		[6]
11 August 2010	Friendly	Austria	Hypo-Arena, Klagenfurt	1 – 0	Costanzo (1st)	[7]
3 September 2010	Friendly	Australia	AFG Arena, St. Gallen	0 – 0		[8]
7 September 2010	EC2012-Q	England	St. Jakob-Park, Basel	1 – 3	Shaqiri (1st)	[9]
8 October 2010	EC2012-Q	Montenegro	Podgorica City Stadium, Podgorica	0 – 1		[10]
12 October 2010	EC2012-Q	Wales	St. Jakob-Park, Basel	4 – 1	Stocker (2nd), Streller (12th), Inler (4th), Stocker (3rd)	[11]
17 November 2010	Friendly	Ukraine	Stade de Genève, Geneva	2 – 2	Frei (41st), Frei (42nd),	[12]
9 February 2011	Friendly	Malta	Ta' Qali Stadium, Ta' Qali	0 – 0		[13]
26 March 2011	EC2012-Q	Bulgaria	Vasil Levski, Sofia	0 – 0		[14]
4 June 2011	EC2012-Q	England	Wembley Stadium, London	2 - 2	Barnetta (7th), Barnetta (8th)	[15]
10 August 2011	Friendly	Liechtenstein	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz	2 – 1	Derdiyok (3rd) , Own goal
6 September 2011	EC2012-Q	Bulgaria	St. Jakob-Park, Basel	3 – 1	Shaqiri (2nd) , Shaqiri (3rd) , Shaqiri (4th)
7 October 2011	EC2012-Q	Wales	Liberty Stadium, Swansea	0 – 2
11 October 2011	EC2012-Q	Montenegro	St. Jakob-Park, Basel	2 – 0	Derdiyok (4th) , Lichtsteiner (1st)
11 November 2011	Friendly	Netherlands	Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam	0 - 0
15 November 2011	Friendly	Luxembourg	Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg	1 - 0	Xhaka (1st)
29 February 2012	Friendly	Argentina	Stade de Suisse, Bern

References

External links

• Official website
• www.Hattrick.ch
• RSSSF archive of results 1905–
• RSSSF archive of coaches 1905–

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