Switzerland national football team
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| Nickname(s) | Schweizer Nati | |
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| 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 | 16 | |
| 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) | |
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| First international | ||
 France 1–0 Switzerland  (Paris, France; 12 February 1905) |
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| Biggest win | ||
Switzerland 9–0 Lithuania  (Paris, France; 25 May 1924) |
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| Biggest defeat | ||
 Hungary 9–0 Switzerland (Budapest, Hungary; 29 October 1911) |
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| 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 | ||
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| 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.
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[edit] Recent history
[edit] 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]
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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]
[edit] Euro 2012
Qualification
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[edit] 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.
[edit] World Cup recordSwitzerland's record at FIFA World Cups.[4]
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[edit] European Championship record
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- *Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
- Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
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[edit] 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.
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Notes INJ Player withdrew from the squad due to an injury.
[edit] 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]
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Most appearances
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Most goals
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[edit] 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 –
[edit] Schedule and recent results
Recent results and future matches.[6] Blue background colour indicates competitive matches.
[edit] References
- ^ "Switzerland 0–0 Ukraine (aet)". BBC Sport. 26 June 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2006/4991532.stm. Retrieved 2008-06-13.
- ^ Euro 2008 team preview No1: Switzerland | Football | guardian.co.uk
- ^ "World Cup 2010: Switzerland Set New Record For Number Of Minutes Without Conceding A Goal". goal.com. 21 June 2010. http://www.goal.com/en/news/1863/world-cup-2010/2010/06/21/1988012/world-cup-2010-switzerland-set-new-record-for-number-of.
- ^ "FIFA World Cup - Statistics for Switzerland". FIFA.com. http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/associations/association=sui/worldcup/index.html.
- ^ "Switzerland – Record International Players". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/zwit-recintlp.html.
- ^ "FIFA.com – Switzerland: Fixtures and Results". http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=sui/fixturesresults/gender=m/index.html.
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