Football World Cup 1954 / Switzerland

This article covers the Swiss national football team at the 1954 World Cup .

qualification

The Switzerland qualified automatically as hosts.

Swiss contingent

Number / name		Association at the time	birthday	International matches
goalkeeper
1	Walter Eich	Young Boys Bern	May 27, 1925
2	Eugène Parlier	Servette FC Genève	5th December 1930
3	Georges Stuber	FC Lausanne Sports	May 11, 1925
Defense
5	Marcel Flückiger	Young Boys Bern	June 20, 1929
6th	Roger Mathis	FC Lausanne Sports	April 4, 1921
7th	André Neury	Servette FC Genève	September 3, 1921
10	Olivier Eggimann	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds	August 6, 1921
14th	Willy Kernen	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds	August 6, 1929
midfield
4th	Roger Bocquet	FC Lausanne Sports	April 9, 1921
8th	Heinz Bigler	Young Boys Bern	December 21, 1925
9	Charles Casali	Young Boys Bern	April 27, 1923
12	Gilbert Fesselet	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds	April 16, 1928
13	Ivo Frosio	Grasshopper Club Zurich	April 27, 1930
attack
11	Norbert Eschmann	FC Lausanne Sports	March 19, 1933
15th	Charles antennas	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds	November 3, 1929
16	Robert Ballaman	Grasshopper Club Zurich	June 21, 1926
17th	Jacques Fatton	Servette FC Genève	December 19, 1925
18th	Josef Hügi	FC Basel	January 23, 1930
19th	Marcel Mauron	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds	March 25, 1929
20th	Eugene Meier	Young Boys Bern	April 30, 1930
21st	Ferdinando Riva	FC Chiasso	3rd July 1930
22nd	Roger Vonlanthen	Grasshopper Club Zurich	February 13, 1929
Trainer
	Karl Rappan		September 26, 1905

Games of the Swiss team

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	England	6: 4	3
2	Switzerland	2: 3	2
3	Italy	5: 3	2
4th	Belgium	5: 8	1

• Switzerland - Italy 2: 1 (1: 1)

Stadium: Stade Olympique de la Pontaise ( Lausanne )

Spectators: 43,000

Referee: Viana ( Brazil )

Goals: 1-0 Ballaman (18th), 1: 1 Boniperti (44th), 2: 1 Hügi (78th)

• England - Switzerland 2: 0 (1: 0)

Stadium: Wankdorfstadion ( Bern )

Spectators: 50,000

Referee: Zsolt ( Hungary )

Goals: 1-0 Mullen (43rd), 2-0 Wilshaw (69th)

Playoff

• Switzerland - Italy 4: 1 (1: 0)

Stadium: St. Jakob Stadium ( Basel )

Spectators: 30,000

Referee: Griffiths ( Wales )

Goals: 1: 0 Hügi (14th), 2: 0 Ballaman (48th), 2: 1 Nesti (67th), 3: 1 Hügi (85th), 4: 1 Fatton (90th)

It was exciting in Group IV. England achieved a 4: 4 n.V. against Belgium and the 2: 0 over Switzerland, which in turn defeated Italy 2: 1. But since Italy knocked out the Belgians 4-1, the Confederates and the Azzuris had to play in the decider. The hosts won a convincing 4-1 victory over their southern neighbors in Basel.

Quarter finals

35,000

Stade Olympique de la Pontaise ( Lausanne )

Austria

Switzerland

Faultless ( Scotland )

7: 5 (5: 4)

0: 1 Ballaman (16th) 0: 2 Hügi (17th) 0: 3 Hügi (19th) 1: 3 Wagner (25th) 2: 3 A. Körner (26th) 3: 3 Wagner (27th) 4: 3 Oc Wirk (32.) 5: 3 A. Körner (34.) 5: 4 Ballaman (39.) 6: 4 Wagner (53.) 6: 5 Hügi (58.) 7: 5 Probst (76.)

The highest-scoring game in World Cup history rose in Lausanne between the hosts and Austria. In the crazy match, the Swiss were already 3-0 up after 23 minutes. Fifteen minutes later, however, Austria was 5-3 ahead. The teams came out of the lockers 5: 4. 6: 4, 6: 5 and 7: 5 was the next hit sequence and Austria had, as expected, knocked Switzerland out of the tournament despite their large handicap.

For the quarter-finals see also: Heat battle of Lausanne

References and footnotes

1. ↑ Sometimes different times are given for the gates, which in some cases only differ by a minute. In the FIFA Match Report http://de.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition=9/results/matches/match=1237/report.html ( memento from June 20, 2008 on the Internet Archive ) , the 0 : 3 the 19th minute, the 2: 3 the 26th, the 3: 3 the 27th, the 5: 4 the 39th, the 6: 4 the 53rd and the 6: 5 the 60th minute. The ÖFB names in its statistics [1] , the 20th for the 0: 3, the 23rd for the 1: 3, the 24th for the 2: 3, the 26th for the 3: 3, the 30th for the 4: 3, the 32nd for the 5: 3. the 60th for the 6: 5 and the 77th for the 7: 5. In the Süddeutsche Zeitung WM-Bibliothek and [2] the FIFA minutes are mentioned except for the 6: 5 (58th minute). At Weltfußball.de, sometimes significantly different goal minutes are mentioned. [3] , the 5: 3 and the 5: 4 only fell in the second half, the 7: 5 six minutes before the end.