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Switzerland national football team

National Football Team
NameSwitzerland
NicknameSchweizer Nati
AssociationSwiss Football Association
ConfederationUEFA (Europe)
Head coachOttmar Hitzfeld
CaptainGökhan Inler
Most capsHeinz Hermann (117)
Top scorerAlexander Frei (42)
FIFA codeSUI
FIFA ranking18
Highest FIFA ranking3 (August 1993)
Lowest FIFA ranking83 (December 1998)
Elo ranking24
Highest Elo ranking8 (June 1924)
Lowest Elo ranking62 (October 1979)
World Cup Statistics
First internationalFrance 1 � 0 Switzerland CH
(Paris, France; 12 February 1905)
Biggest winCH Switzerland 9 � 0 Lithuania
(Paris, France; 25 May 1924)
Biggest defeatHungary 9 � 0 Switzerland CH
(Budapest, Hungary; 29 October 1911)
Appearances9
First World Cup1934
Best resultQuarter-finals, 1934, 1938 and 1954
Regional cup statistics
European Championship
Appearances3
First apps.1996
Best resultRound 1, 1996, 2004 and 2008

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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. 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.

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Medal Record : Olympic
Men’s Football
Silver1924 ParisTeam

World Cup record :
Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA
Uruguay 1930 Did Not Enter   -   -   -   -   -   - -
Italy 1934 Quarter-finals 7/16 2 1 0 1 5 5
France 1938 Quarter-finals 7/15 3 1 1 1 5 5
Brazil 1950 Round 1 6/13 3 1 1 1 4 6
Switzerland 1954 Quarter-finals 8/16 4 2 0 2 11 11
Sweden 1958 Did not Qualify   -   -   -   -   -   - -
Chile 1962 Round 1 16/16 3 0 0 3 2 8
England 1966 Round 1 16/16 3 0 0 3 1 9
Mexico 1970 Did not Qualify   -   -   -   -   -   - -
West Germany 1974 Did not Qualify   -   -   -   -   -   - -
Argentina 1978 Did not Qualify   -   -   -   -   -   - -
Spain 1982 Did not Qualify   -   -   -   -   -   - -
Mexico 1986 Did not Qualify   -   -   -   -   -   - -
Italy 1990 Did not Qualify   -   -   -   -   -   - -
US 1994 Round of 16 16/24 4 1 1 2 5 7
France 1998 Did not Qualify   -   -   -   -   -   - -
South KoreaJapan 2002 Did not Qualify   -   -   -   -   -   - -
Germany 2006 Round of 16 10/32 4 2 2 0 4 0
South Africa 2010 Round 1 19/32 3 1 1 1 1 1
Brazil 2014
Russia 2018
Qatar 2022
Total 9/19 29 9 6 14 38 52

European Championship record :
Year Round GP W D* L GS GA
France 1960 Did not qualify   -   -   -   -   - -
Spain 1964 Did not qualify   -   -   -   -   - -
Italy 1968 Did not qualify   -   -   -   -   - -
Belgium 1972 Did not qualify   -   -   -   -   - -
Yugoslavia 1976 Did not qualify   -   -   -   -   - -
Italy 1980 Did not qualify   -   -   -   -   - -
France 1984 Did not qualify   -   -   -   -   - -
West Germany 1988 Did not qualify   -   -   -   -   - -
Sweden 1992 Did not qualify   -   -   -   -   - -
England 1996 Round 1 3 0 1 2 1 4
BelgiumNetherlands 2000 Did not qualify   -   -   -   -   - -
Portugal 2004 Round 1 3 0 1 2 1 6
AustriaSwitzerland 2008 Round 1 3 1 0 2 3 3
PolandUkraine 2012 Did not qualify   -   -   -   -   - -
France 2016
Total 3/15 9 1 2 6 5 13

Recent call-ups :
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

Recent call-ups :
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

Recent call-ups :
Date Competition Opponent Venue Score Swiss scorers (International goal) Ref
3 March 2010 Friendly Uruguay CH AFG Arena, St. Gallen 1 � 3 Inler (2nd) [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/27/switzerland.euro2008groupa?gusrc=rss&feed=football
1 June 2010 Friendly Costa Rica CH Stade Tourbillon, Sion 0 � 1 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/27/switzerland.euro2008groupa?gusrc=rss&feed=football
5 June 2010 Friendly Italy CH Stade de Genève, Geneva 1 � 1 Inler (3rd) [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/27/switzerland.euro2008groupa?gusrc=rss&feed=football
16 June 2010 WC2010 Spain ZA M. Mabhida, Durban 1 � 0 Fernandes (2nd) [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/27/switzerland.euro2008groupa?gusrc=rss&feed=football
21 June 2010 WC2010 Chile ZA N. Mandela Bay, Port Elizabeth 0 � 1 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/27/switzerland.euro2008groupa?gusrc=rss&feed=football
25 June 2010 WC2010 Honduras ZA Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein 0 � 0 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/27/switzerland.euro2008groupa?gusrc=rss&feed=football
11 August 2010 Friendly Austria AT Hypo-Arena, Klagenfurt 1 � 0 Costanzo (1st) [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/27/switzerland.euro2008groupa?gusrc=rss&feed=football
3 September 2010 Friendly Australia CH AFG Arena, St. Gallen 0 � 0 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/27/switzerland.euro2008groupa?gusrc=rss&feed=football
7 September 2010 EC2012-Q England CH St. Jakob-Park, Basel 1 � 3 Shaqiri (1st) [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/27/switzerland.euro2008groupa?gusrc=rss&feed=football
8 October 2010 EC2012-Q Montenegro ME Podgorica City Stadium, Podgorica 0 � 1 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/27/switzerland.euro2008groupa?gusrc=rss&feed=football
12 October 2010 EC2012-Q WAL CH St. Jakob-Park, Basel 4 � 1 Stocker (2nd), Streller (12th),
Inler (4th), Stocker (3rd)		 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/27/switzerland.euro2008groupa?gusrc=rss&feed=football
17 November 2010 Friendly Ukraine CH Stade de Genève, Geneva 2 � 2 Frei (41st), Frei (42nd), [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/27/switzerland.euro2008groupa?gusrc=rss&feed=football
9 February 2011 Friendly Malta MT Ta' Qali Stadium, Ta' Qali 0 � 0 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/27/switzerland.euro2008groupa?gusrc=rss&feed=football
26 March 2011 EC2012-Q Bulgaria BG Vasil Levski, Sofia 0 � 0 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/27/switzerland.euro2008groupa?gusrc=rss&feed=football
4 June 2011 EC2012-Q England GB Wembley Stadium, London 2 - 2 Barnetta (7th), Barnetta (8th) [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/27/switzerland.euro2008groupa?gusrc=rss&feed=football
10 August 2011 Friendly Liechtenstein LI Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz 2 � 1 Derdiyok (3rd) , Own goal
6 September 2011 EC2012-Q Bulgaria CH St. Jakob-Park, Basel 3 � 1 Shaqiri (2nd) , Shaqiri (3rd) , Shaqiri (4th)
7 October 2011 EC2012-Q WAL WA Liberty Stadium, Swansea 0 � 2
11 October 2011 EC2012-Q Montenegro CH St. Jakob-Park, Basel 2 � 0 Derdiyok (4th) , Lichtsteiner (1st)
11 November 2011 Friendly Netherlands NL Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam
15 November 2011 Friendly Luxembourg LU TBA, Luxembourg
29 February 2012 Friendly Argentina CH Stade de Suisse, Bern


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Football in Switzerland

National teamsSwitzerland (Women's), U-21 , U-17
League systemSuper League, Challenge League, 1. Liga , 2. Liga Interregional, 2. Liga, 3. Liga, 4. Liga, 5. Liga
Domestic cupsSwiss Cup, Uhrencup, Cup of the Alps

International association football

AsiaAFC � Asian Cup
AfricaCAF � Africa Cup of Nations
North, Central America and CaribbeanCONCACAF � Gold Cup
South AmericaCONMEBOL � Copa América
OceaniaOFC � Nations Cup
EuropeUEFA � European Championship
Non-FIFAN.F.-Board � Viva World Cup

National association football teams of Europe (UEFA)

Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Wales

2006 FIFA World Cup finalists

ChampionsItaly
Runners-upFrance
Third placeGermany
Fourth placePortugal
Eliminated in the quarter-finalsArgentina, Brazil, England, Ukraine
Eliminated in the round of 16Australia, Ecuador, Ghana, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
Eliminated in the group stageAngola, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Republic, Iran, Japan, Korea Republic, Paraguay, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Serbia & Montenegro, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, United States

UEFA Euro 2008 finalists

ChampionsSpain
Runners-upGermany
Eliminated in semi-finalsRussia, Turkey
Eliminated in quarter-finalsCroatia, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal
Eliminated in group stageAustria, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland

2010 FIFA World Cup finalists

FinalsNetherlands, Spain
Runners-up
Third place
SemifinalsGermany, Uruguay
Eliminated in the quarterfinalsArgentina, Brazil, Ghana, Paraguay
Eliminated in the round of 16Chile, England, Japan, Korea Republic, Mexico, Portugal, Slovakia, United States
Eliminated in group stageAlgeria, Australia, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Denmark, France, Greece, Honduras, Italy, Korea DPR, New Zealand, Nigeria, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland



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