Football World Cup 2006 / Switzerland

This article covers the Swiss national team at the 2006 World Cup in Germany .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	France	14: 2	20th
2	Switzerland	18: 7	18th
3	Israel	15:10	18th
4th	Ireland	12: 5	17th
5	Cyprus	8:20	4th
6th	Faroe Islands	4:27	1

	Switzerland - Faroe Islands		6: 0 (4: 0)
	Johan Vonlanthen (3), Alexandre Rey (3)
	Switzerland - Ireland		1: 1 (1: 1)
	Hakan Yakin
	Israel - Switzerland		2: 2 (1: 2)
	Alexander Frei, Johan Vonlanthen
	France - Switzerland		0-0
	Switzerland - Cyprus		1: 0 (0: 0)
	Alexander Frei
	Faroe Islands - Switzerland		1: 3 (0: 1)
	Raphael Wicky, Alexander Frei (2)
	Switzerland - Israel		1: 1 (1: 1)
	Alexander Frei
	Cyprus - Switzerland		1: 3 (1: 1)
	Alexander Frei, Philippe Senderos, Daniel Gygax
	Switzerland - France		1: 1 (0: 0)
	Ludovic Magnin
	Ireland - Switzerland		0-0

Relegation matches

	Switzerland - Turkey		2: 0 (1: 0)
	Philippe Senderos, Valon Behrami
	Turkey - Switzerland		4: 2 (2: 1)
	Alexander Frei, Marco Streller

Swiss contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Pascal Zuberbühler	FC Basel	01/08/1971	4th	0	0	0	0
12	Diego Benaglio	Nacional Funchal	09/08/1983	0	0	0	0	0
21st	Fabio Coltorti	Grasshopper Club Zurich	December 3rd, 1980	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Johan Djourou	Arsenal FC	01/18/1987	3	0	1	0	0
3	Ludovic Magnin	VfB Stuttgart	04/20/1979	3	0	1	0	0
4th	Philippe Senderos	Arsenal FC	02/14/1985	3	1	1	0	0
13	Stéphane Grichting	AJ Auxerre	03/30/1979	1	0	0	0	0
17th	Christoph Spycher	Eintracht Frankfurt	03/30/1978	1	0	1	0	0
19th	Valon Behrami	Lazio Rome	April 19, 1985	1	0	0	0	0
20th	Patrick Muller	Olympique Lyon	December 17, 1976	4th	0	0	0	0
23	Philipp Degen	Borussia Dortmund	02/15/1983	4th	0	1	0	0
midfield player
5	Xavier Margairaz	FC Zurich	07/01/1984	2	0	0	0	0
6th	Johann Vogel	AC Milan	03/08/1977	4th	0	1	0	0
7th	Ricardo Cabanas	1. FC Cologne	January 17, 1979	4th	0	1	0	0
8th	Raphael Wicky	Hamburger SV	04/26/1977	4th	0	1	0	0
14th	David sword	FC Basel	02/15/1983	0	0	0	0	0
15th	Blerim Džemaili	FC Zurich	04/12/1986	0	0	0	0	0
16	Tranquillo Barnetta	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	May 22, 1985	4th	1	1	0	0
22nd	Hakan Yakin *	BSC Young Boys	02/22/1977	3	0	1	0	0
striker
9	Alexander Frei	Rennes stadium	07/15/1979	4th	2	1	0	0
10	Daniel Gygax	Lille OSC	08/28/1981	2	0	0	0	0
11	Marco Streller	1. FC Cologne	06/18/1981	3	0	0	0	0
18th	Mauro Lustrinelli	Sparta Prague	02/26/1976	2	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Jakob Kuhn		October 12, 1943

* Hakan Yakin was nominated for the injured Johan Vonlanthen .

Crew quarters

The team was based in Bad Bertrich in the Hotel Fürstenhof.

Games of Switzerland

Preliminary round

• Tuesday, June 13, 2006, 6 p.m. in Stuttgart, France - Switzerland 0-0
  
• Monday, June 19, 2006, 3 p.m. in Dortmund Togo - Switzerland 0: 2 (0: 1)
  
• Friday, June 23, 2006, 9 p.m. in Hanover Switzerland - South Korea 2: 0 (1: 0)
  

For details see Soccer World Cup 2006 / Group G

Round of 16

• Monday, June 26, 2006, 9 p.m. in Cologne, Switzerland - Ukraine 0: 0 a.d., 0: 3 i. E.
  

For details, see Soccer World Cup 2006 / Round of 16

Special

Switzerland are the first team in World Cup history to be eliminated from the tournament without conceding a goal (Ukraine's goals on penalties do not count in the statistics). Switzerland was the first team in World Cup history to fail to convert any penalty kicks in a penalty shoot-out.