Switzerland national football team

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Switzerland

Nickname(s)	Schweizer Nati
Association	Swiss Football Association
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Ottmar Hitzfeld
Captain	Alexander Frei
Most caps	Heinz Hermann (117)
Top scorer	Alexander Frei (39)
FIFA code	SUI
FIFA ranking	13
Highest FIFA ranking	3 (August 1993)
Lowest FIFA ranking	83 (December 1998)
Elo ranking	22
Highest Elo ranking	8 (June 1924)
Lowest Elo ranking	62 (October 1979)
Home colours Away 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	8 (First in 1934)
Best result	Quarterfinals, 1934, 1938, 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 and Squadra nazionale in Italian) is the national football team of Switzerland and is controlled by the Swiss Football Association.

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 2002 U-17 European Championship was won by the Nati.

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]

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 World Cup record 2 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifier 3 World Cup 2006 4 European Championship record 5 Tournament Participation 6 Match Kits 7 Players 7.1 Recent call ups 8 Coaches 9 Notes 10 External links

[edit] World Cup record

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	4	6
1950	Round 1	6/13	3	1	1	1	4	6
1954	Quarter-finals	8/16	4	2	0	4	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 2	16/24	4	1	1	2	5	7
1998	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006	Round 2	10/32	4	2	2	0	4	0
Total	8/18		26	8	5	13	37	51

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

[edit] 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifier

Group 2

Team v • d • e Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Greece 6 4 1 1 12 4 +8 13  Switzerland 6 4 1 1 11 6 +5 13  Latvia 6 3 1 2 10 6 +4 10  Israel 6 2 3 1 10 8 +2 9  Luxembourg 6 1 1 4 3 13 −10 4  Moldova 6 0 1 5 2 11 −9 1

Greece  – 2 – 1 10 Oct 14 Oct 3 – 0 1 – 2 Israel  1 – 1 – 5 Sep 9 Sep 10 Oct 2 – 2 Latvia  0 – 2 1 – 1 – 2 – 0 14 Oct 9 Sep Luxembourg  0 – 3 1 – 3 0 – 4 – 0 – 0 10 Oct Moldova  9 Sep 1 – 2 1 – 2 5 Sep – 0 – 2 Switzerland  5 Sep 14 Oct 2 – 1 1 – 2 2 – 0 –

[edit] World Cup 2006

Group Stage

• France 0 - 0 Switzerland, 13 June in Stuttgart (5pm BST)
• Switzerland 2 - 0 Togo, 19 June in Dortmund (2pm BST)
• Switzerland 2 - 0 South Korea, 23 June in Hannover (8pm BST)

Second Round

• Switzerland 0 (aet) 0 Ukraine, 26 June in Cologne (8pm BST) (Ukraine won 3-0 in penalty shootout)

Switzerland was the only team in tournament not to have conceded a goal during regulation time in their matches.

[edit] 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		-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	3/13	9	1	2	6	5	13

*Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

**Gold background color indicates that the tournament was won. Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

[edit] Tournament Participation

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 (1934,1938,1954). They gained a silver medal in the 1924 Olympic games in Paris. The U-17-squad became 2002 European champions, with a 4:2 win after a penalty shootout against France (see U-17-EM 2002). Beyond that Switzerland qualified for the semi-final of the U-21-Euro 2002 and the U-21-Euro 2004 in each case.

[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] Players

Squad selected for the qualifier against Moldova on 28 March and 1 April 2009.
Date announced	29 March 2009

No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club Goalkeepers GK Diego Benaglio September 8, 1983 (1983-09-08) (age 25) 18 0 Wolfsburg GK Johnny Leoni June 30, 1984 (1984-06-30) (age 25) 0 0 Zürich GK Marco Wölfli August 22, 1982 (1982-08-22) (age 26) 2 0 Young Boys Defence DF Patrick Müller December 17, 1976 (1976-12-17) (age 32) 81 3 Monaco DF Ludovic Magnin April 20, 1979 (1979-04-20) (age 30) 57 3 Stuttgart DF Philippe Senderos February 14, 1985 (1985-02-14) (age 24) 32 3 Arsenal DF Stéphane Grichting March 30, 1979 (1979-03-30) (age 30) 26 0 Auxerre DF Johan Djourou January 18, 1987 (1987-01-18) (age 22) 23 1 Arsenal DF Stephan Lichtsteiner January 16, 1984 (1984-01-16) (age 25) 19 0 Lazio DF Reto Ziegler January 16, 1986 (1986-01-16) (age 23) 6 1 Sampdoria Midfield MF Tranquillo Barnetta May 22, 1985 (1985-05-22) (age 24) 41 6 Bayer Leverkusen MF Benjamin Huggel July 7, 1977 (1977-07-07) (age 32) 30 1 Basel MF Gökhan Inler June 27, 1984 (1984-06-27) (age 25) 27 1 Udinese MF Gelson Fernandes September 2, 1986 (1986-09-02) (age 22) 17 1 AS Saint-Étienne MF Blerim Džemaili April 12, 1986 (1986-04-12) (age 23) 9 0 Torino MF Almen Abdi October 21, 1986 (1986-10-21) (age 22) 5 0 Zürich MF Valentin Stocker April 12, 1989 (1989-04-12) (age 20) 3 1 Basel MF Alberto Regazzoni April 5, 1983 (1983-04-05) (age 26) 3 0 Young Boys MF Marco Padalino December 8, 1983 (1983-12-08) (age 25) 1 0 Sampdoria Forward FW Alexander Frei July 15, 1979 (1979-07-15) (age 29) 67 39 Borussia Dortmund FW Blaise Kufo May 25, 1975 (1975-05-25) (age 34) 22 6 Twente FW Eren Derdiyok June 12, 1988 (1988-06-12) (age 21) 10 1 Bayer Leverkusen

[edit] Recent call ups

No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club GK Eldin Jakupović October 2, 1984 (1984-10-02) (age 24) 1 0 Grasshopper DF Mario Eggimann January 24, 1981 (1981-01-24) (age 28) 6 0 Hannover 96 DF Christoph Spycher March 30, 1978 (1978-03-30) (age 31) 41 0 Eintracht Frankfurt MF Valon Behrami April 19, 1985 (1985-04-19) (age 24) 22 2 West Ham United MF Hakan Yakın February 22, 1977 (1977-02-22) (age 32) 74 20 Al-Gharafa

[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] Notes

[edit] External links

• Official website
• www.Hattrick.ch
• RSSSF archive of results 1905-
• RSSSF archive of most capped players and highest goalscorers
• RSSSF archive of coaches 1905-

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