European Football Championship 2021 / Switzerland

This article covers the Swiss national football team at the pan-European football championship in 2021 . It is the fifth participation for Switzerland.

qualification

For the qualification the Swiss team was drawn from Denmark, Ireland, Georgia and Gibraltar.

In total, national coach Vladimir Petković , who had already led the team to the last European Championship, deployed 27 players, including Ricardo Rodríguez , goalkeeper Yann Sommer , captain Granit Xhaka and Denis Zakaria in all eight games. Manuel Akanji and Nico Elvedi had seven missions each . Michel Aebischer , Eray Cömert , Cedric Itten and Ruben Vargas played their first international match in the qualifying games. In the 2018/19 UEFA Nations League , Albian Ajeti , Kevin Mbabu and Djibril Sow , who were also used in the qualifying games, made their first international matches.

Top scorer with three goals he scored in the last two games was Cedric Itten . He also scored his first international goal six minutes after coming on as a substitute for his debut in a 1-0 win over Georgia. This was also Remo Freuler (for 1: 0 lead at 3: 3 against Denmark), Loris Benito (to 4: 1), Christian Fassnacht (to 3: 0) and Ruben Vargas (for temporary 2: 0 in the final game against Gibraltar). A total of 14 players contributed to 18 qualifying goals. In addition, the Swiss benefited from an own goal by an Irishman.

Games

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
03/23/2019	Tbilisi	Georgia	2: 0 (0: 0)	Steven Zuber (56th), Denis Zakaria (80th)
March 26, 2019	Basel	Denmark	3: 3 (0: 1)	Remo Freuler (19th), Granit Xhaka (66th), Breel Embolo (76th); Zanka (84th), Christian Gytkjær (88th), Henrik Dalsgaard (90th + 3)
05.09.2019	Dublin	Ireland	1: 1 (0: 0)	Fabian Schär (74th); David McGoldrick (85th)
09/08/2019	Manners	Gibraltar	4: 0 (3: 0)	Denis Zakaria (37th), Admir Mehmedi (43th), Ricardo Rodríguez (45th + 4), Mario Gavranović (87th)
October 12, 2019	Copenhagen	Denmark	0: 1 (0: 0)	Yussuf Poulsen (84th)
October 15, 2019	Lancy	Ireland	2: 0 (1: 0)	Haris Seferovic (16th), Shane Duffy (90th + 3 / own goal)
11/15/2019	St. Gallen	Georgia	1: 0 (0: 0)	Cedric Itten (77th)
11/18/2019	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	6: 1 (1: 0)	Cedric Itten (10th, 84th), Ruben Vargas (50th), Christian Fassnacht (57th), Reece Styche (74th), Loris Benito (75th), Granit Xhaka (86th)

Closing table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Switzerland	8th	5	2	1	019: 600	+13	17th
2.	Denmark	8th	4th	4th	0	023: 600	+17	16
3.	Ireland	8th	3	4th	1	007: 500	+2	13
4th	Georgia	8th	2	2	4th	007:110	−4	08th
5.	Gibraltar	8th	0	0	8th	003:310	−28	00

Finals

Switzerland initially applied to host group and knockout games with St. Jakob-Park in Basel , but then withdrew. In the draw on November 30, 2019, the Swiss of the group with Italy, against which they played the most games, were drawn to Turkey and Wales. The record against Italy is negative with eight wins, 22 draws and 28 defeats. The last defeat against the Italians was on May 1, 1993. Then there were four defeats and four draws. Against the Turks there were four wins, three draws and eight defeats, the last one being lost at the home European championship in 2008 against Turkey and winning in November 2005. Against Wales, the record is positive with five wins and two defeats. The last game between the two in October 2011 was lost 2-0, which meant that the Swiss missed the 2012 European Championship.

If the Swiss were group winners, they would - subject to the retention of the venues - play in London against the runner-up in Group C with the Netherlands, Austria and the Ukraine, in second place in the first round of 16 in Amsterdam against the second in Group B, e.g. B. Belgium, Denmark or Russia. If they were one of the four best third, were either the winners of Group B, Group E with Spain and the winner of Group F with Germany, world champion France and defending champions Portugal opponents in the second round, and then in Bilbao , Bucharest or Glasgow play would .

Group games

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Turkey	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
2.	Italy	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
3.	Wales	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
4th	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00

June 12, 2021 at 3 p.m. in Baku
Wales	-	Switzerland	-: - (- :–)
June 16, 2021 at 9:00 p.m. in Rome
Italy	-	Switzerland	-: - (- :–)
June 20, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. in Baku
Switzerland	-	Turkey	-: - (- :–)