Switzerland national football team

Switzerland

Nickname(s)	Schweizer Nati, La Nati, Rossocrociati
Association	Swiss Football Association
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Vladimir Petković
Captain	Gökhan Inler
Most caps	Heinz Hermann (117)
Top scorer	Alexander Frei (42)
FIFA code	SUI
FIFA ranking	9 3 (9 April 2015)
Highest FIFA ranking	3 (August 1993)
Lowest FIFA ranking	83 (December 1998)
Elo ranking	21 (31 March 2015)
Highest Elo ranking	8 (June 1924)
Lowest Elo ranking	62 (October 1979)
First colours Second 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	10 (First in 1934)
Best result	Quarter-finals: 1934, 1938 and 1954
European Championship
Appearances	3 (First in 1996)
Best result	Group Stage, 1996, 2004 and 2008

Olympic medal record
Men’s Football
Silver	1924 Paris	Team

The Switzerland 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.

History

20th century

Switzerland earned the silver medal at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris. It was beaten 3–0 by Uruguay in the final.

The team participated in its first FIFA World Cup in 1934, where it reached the quarter-final before losing to Czechoslovakia. Switzerland again reached the quarter-final stage in 1938, losing to Hungary. Switzerland hosted the tournament in 1954 and reached the quarter-final for a third time, where the team was beaten 7–5 by neighbouring Austria. The Swiss also qualified for the World Cup in 1950, 1962 and 1966, losing in the first round on each occasion.

After the appointment of English manager Roy Hodgson in 1992, Switzerland rose to its highest ever position in the FIFA World Rankings and qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 28 years. At the tournament finals, the team qualified for the second round by beating Romania and drawing with host nation the United States. Switzerland lost 3–0 to Spain in the second round.

The team then qualified for its first ever UEFA European Championship. For the finals of UEFA Euro 1996, Hodgson was replaced by Portuguese Artur Jorge. The team finished bottom of Group A after a draw with England and defeats to the Netherlands and Scotland.

Recent history

Euro 2004

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

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.

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

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 on away goals in the play-off round 2–0 and 2–4 (4-4 aggregate) to qualify for the main tournament.

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. 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. 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

Switzerland co-hosted the Euro 2008 together with Austria and was therefore automatically qualified. 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. 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: Switzerland ended qualification for group G in third place, behind England and Montenegro. This meant that for the first time since Euro 2004, Switzerland did not qualify for a major international tournament.

World Cup 2014

Switzerland has qualified for the 2014 World Cup winning their UEFA Group E.
Qualification

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts   Switzerland 10 7 3 0 17 6 +11 24  Iceland 10 5 2 3 17 15 +2 17  Slovenia 10 5 0 5 14 11 +3 15  Norway 10 3 3 4 10 13 −3 12  Albania 10 3 2 5 9 11 −2 11  Cyprus 10 1 2 7 4 15 −11 5

Albania  — 3–1 1–2 1–1 1–0 1–2 Cyprus  0–0 — 1–0 1–3 0–2 0–0 Iceland  2–1 2–0 — 2–0 2–4 0–2 Norway  0–1 2–0 1–1 — 2–1 0–2 Slovenia  1–0 2–1 1–2 3–0 — 0–2 Switzerland   2–0 1–0 4–4 1–1 1–0 —

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 Main article: Switzerland at the FIFA World Cup Switzerland's record at FIFA World Cups.[4] Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA 1930 Did Not Enter 1934 Quarter-Finals 7th 2 1 0 1 5 5 1938 7th 3 1 1 1 5 5 1950 Group Stage 6th 3 1 1 1 4 6 1954 Quarter-Finals 8th 4 2 0 2 11 11 1958 Did Not Qualify 1962 Group Stage 16th 3 0 0 3 2 8 1966 16th 3 0 0 3 1 9 1970 Did Not Qualify 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 Round of 16 16th 4 1 1 2 5 7 1998 Did Not Qualify 2002 2006 Round of 16 10th 4 2 2 0 4 0 2010 Group Stage 19th 3 1 1 1 1 1 2014 Round of 16 11th 4 2 0 2 7 7 Total Quarter-Finals 10/22 33 11 6 16 45 59

European Championship record Main article: Switzerland at the UEFA European Football Championship Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA 1960 Did Not Qualify 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 Group Stage 13th 3 0 1 2 1 4 2000 Did Not Qualify 2004 Group Stage 15th 3 0 1 2 1 6 2008 11th 3 1 0 2 3 3 2012 Did Not Qualify 2016 To Be Determined Total Group Stage 3/14 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 home kit is all-red and the change is all-white, although the shorts and socks of each kit are interchangeable if there is a minor clash. The uniform is manufactured by Puma until the end of 2017-18 season.

Historical kits

1994-1996 home

1996-1998 home

2004-2005 home

2005-2006 home

2006-2008 home

2008-2010 home

2008-2010 away

2010-2012 home

2010-2012 away

Current squad

The following players have been called up to the squad for the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Estonia on March 27 and the friendly match against USA on March 31, 2015.
Caps and goals updated on March 31, 2015 after the match against USA.

0#0 Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club 1GK Yann Sommer (1988-12-17) December 17, 1988 11 0 Borussia Mönchengladbach 1GK Roman Bürki (1990-11-14) November 14, 1990 2 0 SC Freiburg 1GK Marwin Hitz (1987-09-18) September 18, 1987 0 0 FC Augsburg 2DF Stephan Lichtsteiner (1984-01-16) January 16, 1984 73 5 Juventus 2DF Johan Djourou (1987-01-18) January 18, 1987 53 1 Hamburger SV 2DF Steve von Bergen (1983-06-10) June 10, 1983 48 0 Young Boys 2DF Ricardo Rodríguez (1992-08-25) August 25, 1992 29 0 VfL Wolfsburg 2DF Fabian Schär (1991-12-20) December 20, 1991 12 5 Basel 2DF François Moubandje (1990-06-21) June 21, 1990 3 0 Toulouse 2DF Silvan Widmer (1993-03-05) March 5, 1993 3 0 Udinese 2DF Fabian Lustenberger (1988-05-02) May 2, 1988 1 0 Hertha BSC 3MF Gökhan İnler (Captain) (1984-06-27) June 27, 1984 83 6 Napoli 3MF Valon Behrami (1985-04-19) April 19, 1985 57 2 Hamburger SV 3MF Gelson Fernandes (1986-09-02) September 2, 1986 51 2 Rennes 3MF Xherdan Shaqiri (1991-10-10) October 10, 1991 44 15 Internazionale 3MF Blerim Džemaili (1986-04-12) April 12, 1986 40 3 Galatasaray 3MF Granit Xhaka (1992-09-27) September 27, 1992 35 6 Borussia Mönchengladbach 3MF Valentin Stocker (1989-04-12) April 12, 1989 28 4 Hertha BSC 3MF Fabian Frei (1989-01-08) January 8, 1989 7 1 Basel 3MF Pajtim Kasami (1992-06-02) June 2, 1992 6 1 Olympiacos 4FW Admir Mehmedi (1991-03-16) March 16, 1991 31 2 SC Freiburg 4FW Haris Seferović (1992-02-22) February 22, 1992 22 5 Eintracht Frankfurt 4FW Josip Drmić (1992-08-08) August 8, 1992 18 5 Bayer Leverkusen 4FW Breel Embolo (1997-02-14) February 14, 1997 1 0 Basel

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 Yvon Mvogo (1994-06-06) June 6, 1994 0 0 Young Boys v.  Poland, November 18, 2014 DF Michael Lang (1991-02-08) February 8, 1991 8 1 Grasshopper v.  Poland, November 18, 2014 DF Philippe Senderos (1985-02-14) February 14, 1985 55 5 Aston Villa v.  Lithuania, November 15, 2014 INJ DF Loris Benito (1992-01-07) January 7, 1992 0 0 Benfica v.  England, September 8, 2014 DF Reto Ziegler (1986-01-16) January 16, 1986 35 1 Sion 2014 FIFA World Cup DF Timm Klose (1988-05-09) May 9, 1988 8 0 VfL Wolfsburg 2014 FIFA World Cup (standby) MF Tranquillo Barnetta (1985-05-22) May 22, 1985 75 10 Schalke 04 v.  San Marino, October 14, 2014 FW Marco Schönbächler (1990-01-11) January 11, 1990 2 0 Zürich v.  Poland, November 18, 2014 FW Michael Frey (1994-07-19) July 19, 1994 0 0 Lille v.  San Marino, October 14, 2014 FW Mario Gavranović (1989-11-24) November 24, 1989 11 4 Zürich 2014 FIFA World Cup FW Eren Derdiyok (1988-06-12) June 12, 1988 46 8 Kasımpaşa 2014 FIFA World Cup (standby)

^INJ Player withdrew from the squad due to an injury.
^RET Retired from international football.

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. USA, 31 March 2015.^[5]

Most appearances # Name Years Caps 1 Heinz Hermann 1978–1991 117 2 Alain Geiger 1980–1996 112 3 Stéphane Chapuisat 1989–2004 103 4 Johann Vogel 1995–2007 94 5 Hakan Yakin 2000–2011 87 6 Alexander Frei 2001–2011 84 7 Gökhan Inler 2006– 83 8 Patrick Müller 1998–2008 81 9 Severino Minelli 1930–1943 80 10 André Egli 1979–1994 79

Most goals # Name Years Caps Goals 1 Alexander Frei 2001–2011 84 42 2 Kubilay Türkyilmaz 1988–2001 62 34 Max Abegglen 1922–1937 68 34 4 André Abegglen 1927–1943 52 29 Jacques Fatton 1946–1955 53 29 6 Adrian Knup 1989–1996 49 26 7 Josef Hügi 1951–1961 34 23 8 Charles Antenen 1948–1962 56 22 9 Lauro Amadò 1935–1948 54 21 Stéphane Chapuisat 1989–2004 103 21

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 Hüssy – 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 – July 13, 2014
• Vladimir Petković – July 13, 2014 –

National Team Results

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

Date	Competition	Opponent	Venue	Score	Swiss scorers (International goal)	Referee
27 March 2015	EC2016-Q	Estonia	Swissporarena, Lucerne	3 – 0	Schär (5th), Xhaka (6th), Seferović (5th)
31 March 2015	Friendly	United States	Stadion Letzigrund, Zurich	1 – 1	Stocker (4th)
10 June 2015	Friendly	Liechtenstein	Stockhorn Arena, Thun
14 June 2015	EC2016-Q	Lithuania	LFF Stadium, Vilnius
5 September 2015	EC2016-Q	Slovenia	TBA
8 September 2015	EC2016-Q	England	Wembley Stadium, London
9 October 2015	EC2016-Q	San Marino	TBA
12 October 2015	EC2016-Q	Estonia	A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn

Swiss youth teams

• Switzerland national under-23 football team (also known as Swiss Olympic)
• Switzerland national under-21 football team
• Switzerland national under-20 football team
• Switzerland national under-19 football team
• Switzerland national under-18 football team
• Switzerland national under-17 football team
• Switzerland national under-16 football team

References

External links

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

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2006 FIFA World Cup finalists Champions Italy Runners-up France Third place Germany Fourth place Portugal Eliminated in the quarter-finals Argentina Brazil England Ukraine Eliminated in the round of 16 Australia Ecuador Ghana Mexico Netherlands Spain Sweden Switzerland Eliminated in the group stage Angola Costa Rica Croatia Czech Republic Iran Ivory Coast Japan Paraguay Poland Saudi Arabia Serbia & Montenegro South Korea Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia United States 1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014

UEFA Euro 2008 finalists Champions Spain Runners-up Germany Eliminated in the semi-finals Russia Turkey Eliminated in the quarter-finals Croatia Italy Netherlands Portugal Eliminated in the group stage Czech Republic Switzerland Austria Poland France Romania Greece Sweden

2010 FIFA World Cup finalists Champions Spain Runners-up Netherlands Third place Germany Fourth place Uruguay Eliminated in the quarter-finals Argentina Brazil Ghana Paraguay Eliminated in the round of 16 Chile England Japan Mexico Portugal Slovakia South Korea United States Eliminated in the group stage Algeria Australia Cameroon Denmark France Greece Honduras Italy Ivory Coast New Zealand Nigeria North Korea Serbia Slovenia South Africa Switzerland 1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014

2014 FIFA World Cup finalists Champions Germany Runners-up Argentina Third place Netherlands Fourth place Brazil Eliminated in the quarter-finals Belgium Colombia Costa Rica France Eliminated in the round of 16 Algeria Chile Greece Mexico Nigeria Switzerland United States Uruguay Eliminated in the group stage Australia Bosnia and Herzegovina Cameroon Croatia Ecuador England Ghana Honduras Iran Italy Ivory Coast Japan Portugal Russia South Korea Spain 1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014

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