Switzerland national football team
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| Nickname(s) | Schweizer Nati, La Nati, Rossocrociati |
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| Association | Swiss Football Association |
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) |
| Head coach | Vladimir Petković |
| Captain | Stephan Lichtsteiner |
| Most caps | Heinz Hermann (118) |
| Top scorer | Alexander Frei (42) |
| FIFA code | SUI |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 11  3 (24 November 2016)
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| Highest | 3 (August 1993) |
| Lowest | 83 (December 1998) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 16 2 (1 December 2016)
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| Highest | 8 (June 1924) |
| Lowest | 62 (October 1979) |
| First international | |
 France 0–2 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 | |
Switzerland 0–9 England  (Basel, Switzerland; 20 May 1909)  Hungary 9–0 Switzerland (Budapest, Hungary; 29 October 1911) |
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| World Cup | |
| Appearances | 10 (first in 1934) |
| Best result | 4th Place 1986 |
| European Championship | |
| Appearances | 4 (first in 1996) |
| Best result | Round of 16, 2016 |
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1924 Paris | Team |
The Switzerland 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 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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