Swiss national football team

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The Swiss national football team of the men (short "Nati" []; short "la Nati"; , nickname "Rossocrociati"; ) is the selection team of the Swiss Football Association (SFV). The A-Team, the name of the SFV, represents Switzerland at international level, unlike the junior teams in competitions without age restrictions.

Their first international match was played by the Swiss in 1905 against France. The biggest success of the A-Team so far was winning the silver medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics, the biggest success of a junior selection in 2009 of the world title of the U-17. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Austrian Karl Rappan shaped Swiss football; He introduced the Swiss bar and supervised the team at three world championships. The 1954 World Cup took place in Switzerland.

In the 1960s, an era of failure began that lasted almost 30 years. National coach Roy Hodgson brought the team back to the top of the world and achieved qualification for the 1994 World Cup and the 1996 European Championships.

With national coach Köbi Kuhn, the Swiss qualified for the European Championships 2004. As a result, Switzerland participated in all European and World Championships with the exception of the European Championships in 2012 (2006 and 2008 under Köbi Kuhn); 2010 and 2014 World Cup under Ottmar Hitzfeld; Euro 2016, World Cup 2018 and Euro 2020 under Vladimir Petković, World Cup 2022 under Murat Yakin.

History

Football pioneer Switzerland
After the United Kingdom, Switzerland was the first country in Europe to practice football. British students and merchants founded various clubs in the Lake Geneva region in the early 1870s. In 1879, Switzerland’s oldest club, FC St. Gallen, was established. Eleven clubs founded the “Swiss Football Association” in 1895 in the station buffet Olten. Initially, four out of five members of the association management were British. The Swiss Federation was one of the seven founding members of FIFA in 1904 and renamed itself Swiss Football Association (SFV) in 1913. With the Germanization of the name, football, which at that time was still considered typical “British”, should be better anchored in the population. In addition, the association hoped to obtain the status of a subsidy-eligible organization with this step, but this only succeeded in the 1920s.

The fact that only a few German-language terms have prevailed in Swiss football is due to the strong Anglophone influence in the early phase. So is called the penalty penalty, the corner corner corner, the goal goal and the game captain. Many clubs also have English names such as the Young Boys or the Grasshoppers.

The further spread of football in Europe was mainly from Switzerland, by graduates of local elite schools and universities who played the game during their study stays