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This article is about the Swiss national football team of women at the Women’s World Cup 2015 in Canada. Switzerland took part in the final for the first time and for the Swiss it was the first ever participation in a major tournament. As a group third, Switzerland reached the knockout round, but lost there in the round of 16 against World Cup host Canada and missed the direct qualification for the Olympic Games 2016.

Qualification
Switzerland was placed in the group slogan only in pot C and was drawn to the European Qualification Group 3 with Denmark, Iceland, Serbia, Israel and Malta. Switzerland qualified as the first European team and only team from pot C for the world championship by the 1:1 between the two participants of the last European Championship Denmark and Iceland on the 15th. June 2014. Only in the 1:1 in the home game against Denmark was not won and a goal conceded. In addition, the Swiss on 5 April 2013 with the 11:0 against Malta their highest international victory.

Overall, national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg used 21 players, of which only captain Caroline Abbé, Vanessa Bürki, Lara Dickenmann and Noëlle Maritz participated in all ten games. Most goals were scored by Lara Dickenmann (11), Ana Maria Crnogorčević (9), Fabienne Humm (8) and Vanessa Bürki (5). Their first A-country matches came in qualifying Eseosa Aigbogun (21 September 2013) and Cinzia Zehnder (19 June 2014), both against Serbia.

The team shall:

Order
On May 11, the provisional squad was named with 27 players, with whom from the 11th May the training camp for the World Cup begins, as well as six reserve players (R) and an injured player (V).
The final squad of 23 players (including three goalkeepers), who must be notified to the FIFA General Secretariat no later than ten working days before the opening match, was appointed on 22 May.

Players not considered

Preparation
After the successful qualification had been determined, but even before all the qualification matches had been completed, the Swiss began the preparation and travelled to the USA for a test match, where they were on the 20th. He first met the US in Cary in August 2014 and lost 1:4. On February 10, Switzerland played in Cesar, Portugal against Portugal and lost 1-2. Two days later, another game was lost to the Portuguese women in Santa Maria da Feira with 0-1. In March 2015, the team will take part in the traditional Algarve Cup for the first time. She first met on 4 March on Iceland and won 2-0. Caroline Abbé and Martina Moser were the first Swiss women to play their 100th international match. On 6 March was lost with 0:3 against record winner USA and on 9. In March, Norway was 2-2. Thus, the Swiss became group third and reached the game for place 7 on 11. March against Brazil, against d