Swiss national football team (U-21 men)

Switzerland
Suisse ( fr. )
Svizzera ( ital. )
Svizra ( advises. )

Association

Swiss
Football Association

confederacy

UEFA

Technical sponsor

puma

Head coach

Mauro Lustrinelli

Assistant coach

Sascha Stauch

FIFA code

SUI

home

Away

Balance sheet

225 games
95 wins
50 draws
80 losses

statistics

First international match Greece 2-1 Switzerland ( Rhodes , Greece ; March 18, 1990)

Biggest win Switzerland 7-1 Latvia ( Lugano , Switzerland; September 8, 2014)

Biggest defeat Switzerland 0-5 Sweden ( Solothurn , Switzerland; October 11, 1994)

Successes in tournaments

European Championship

Participation in the finals

3 ( first : 2002 )

Best results

2011 (final)

(As of June 7, 2018)

The Swiss U-21 national football team is a selection of Swiss football players . It is subordinate to the Swiss Football Association and represents it at the U-21 level in friendly matches against the national teams of other national associations, but also at the European Championship of the continental association UEFA . Eligible to play are players who have not yet reached the age of 21 and who are Swiss citizens . In tournaments, the age at the first qualifying game or on January 1st of the year specified in the tournament rules is decisive. For example , only players born on or after January 1, 1996 may be used for the 2019 U-21 European Championship , the qualification of which began in 2017.

history

In 2002, Switzerland's U-21s qualified for the 2002 U-21 European Football Championship . In the subsequent application process, you then received the rights to host. As one of eight nations ( squad 2002 ) they met in Group A on the teams of Italy , Portugal and England . As outsiders, the Swiss lost 2-1 to England in their first game. Alexander Frei made the first European Championship goal in the history of the Swiss U-21s . In the second group game, the first win against Portugal (2-0) followed and with a 0-0 win against defending champions Italy, the Swiss secured second place in their group and thus advanced to the semi-finals. There the team met their neighbor France . Stephan Keller received the yellow-red card in the 41st minute , so that the team had to play outnumbered for one half. With goals from Steed Malbranque and Olivier Sorlin, the French won 2-0.

For the European Championship 2004 in Germany , the team qualified for the second time in a row and in general through the qualifying round for the final tournament ( Kader 2004 ). The defending champion Czech Republic was eliminated in the decisive qualifying round in the penalty shootout. In addition to Sweden and hosts Germany , there was a reunion with Portugal in the group stage. With only one point from three games and a goal difference of 4: 7, the team was eliminated after the preliminary round.

In qualifying for the EM 2006 , the Swiss failed in the play-off games against Portugal. After the team in Group 4 secured 2nd place behind France with a 1-0 win against Ireland on the last day of the game and was thus eligible for the relegation round, after a 1-1 in the first leg, the second leg was 1: 2 lost.

The 2006 European Championship was followed by the next European Championship in 2007 , so that the qualification for this tournament was played out in a "rapid process" (preliminary round, short group phase with three teams and play-off games). Switzerland, which only had to enter in the group stage, met Moldova and England here, with only one game against each team. Since England drew 2-2 in their first game against Moldova and the Swiss won 3-1 in Moldova, a draw in the decisive game would have been enough for the Swiss to qualify for the play-off games. However, the Confederates lost 3-2 to the English in front of their home crowd.

For the next European Championship 2009 qualification , Switzerland was drawn with “solvable” opponents with Estonia , Macedonia and Norway . The most stubborn competitor should be the defending champion from the Netherlands . The Swiss started badly with a 1-1 draw against Macedonia and a 1-2 loss against Norway. After two clear victories with 4: 0 and 5: 0 against Estonia, the revenge against Macedonia should follow. But again the Southeast Europeans got the upper hand and won the comparison with 2: 1. But since the Netherlands also stumbled, the next three games should point the way. With a three-point lead over Switzerland, the second leg between the Netherlands and the Confederations came on the last matchday. The Swiss team won and overtook the two-time European champions due to the better goal difference. In the play-off games, the team faced Spain . The first leg was won 2-1; however, the second leg was lost 3-1 in extra time, which meant the elimination.

In March 2009 the new qualification rounds for the EM 2011 began . Pierre-André Schürmann , who had coached the youth team since 2007, was replaced by Pierluigi Tami after he accepted an offer from Neuchâtel Xamax . This leads his protégés against the junior teams from Turkey , Estonia, Georgia , Armenia and Ireland. Already on the second day of the match there was a surprising defeat against the Estonians, as well as a draw three game days later against the Irish who had not yet won. In further comparisons, however, the Confederates prevailed and took the lead in Group 2 early on. In the play-offs, Switzerland prevailed against Sweden (4: 1, 1: 1).

At the U-21 European Championships in Denmark, Switzerland made it to the semi-finals after winning three wins against Denmark , Iceland and Belarus in the group stage , where they won the Czech Republic with 1: 0 after extra time. In the final, however, she lost 2-0 to Spain .

Participation in U-21 European championships

1978	not qualified
1980	not qualified
1982	not qualified
1984	not qualified
1986	not qualified
1988	not qualified
1990	not qualified
1992	not qualified
1994 in France	not qualified
1996 in Spain	not qualified
1998 in Romania	not qualified
2000 in Slovakia	not qualified
2002 in Switzerland	Semi-final
2004 in Germany	Preliminary round
2006 in Portugal	not qualified
2007 in the Netherlands	not qualified
2009 in Sweden	not qualified
2011 in Denmark	Final
2013 in Israel	not qualified
2015 in the Czech Republic	not qualified
2017 in Poland	not qualified
2019 in Italy / San Marino	not qualified

Note : Between 1978 and 1992, the final round of a U-21 European Championship was not played in one country, but instead was played back and forth in the respective participating nations.

Current squad

Players marked with "*" have so far been in the squad for the 2019 European Championship qualifiers and in the friendly against France on May 25, 2018.

Surname	Date of birth	Games	Gates	society
goalkeeper
Noam Baumann *	April 10, 1996	1	0	FC Lugano (loan)
Simon Enzler *	October 16, 1997	0	0	SC Kriens (loan)
Gregor Kobel *	December 6, 1997	8th	0	VfB Stuttgart
Dario Marzino	September 19, 1996	0	0	BSC Young Boys
Mateo Matic *	January 7, 1996	1	0	Grasshopper Club Zurich
Defense
Remo Arnold *	January 17, 1997	1	0	FC Winterthur (loan)
Jan Bamert *	March 9, 1998	3	0	FC Sion
Eray Cömert *	February 4, 1998	1	1	FC Basel
Ulisses Garcia *(C)	January 11, 1996	14th	1	BSC Young Boys
Silvan Hefti *	October 25, 1997	7th	0	FC St. Gallen
Mirlind Kryeziu	January 26, 1997	0	0	FC Zurich
Noah Loosli *	January 23, 1997	1	0	FC Lausanne Sports
Linus Obexer	June 5, 1997	0	0	FC Aarau (loan)
Jean-Pierre Rhyner *	March 16, 1996	5	0	Grasshopper Club Zurich
Tobias Schättin	June 5, 1997	1	0	FC Zurich (loan)
Nicolas Stettler *	April 28, 1996	6th	0	FC Zurich U-21
Jasper van der Werff *	December 9, 1998	1	0	Austria FC Red Bull Salzburg
Nils von Niederhäuser	January 10, 1996	0	0	Liechtenstein FC Vaduz
Cédric Zesiger *	June 24, 1998	3	0	Grasshopper Club Zurich
midfield
Michel Aebischer *	January 6, 1997	3	0	BSC Young Boys
Nedim Bajrami *	February 28, 1999	1	0	Grasshopper Club Zurich
Arxhend Cani	2nd August 1997	2	1	FC Basel U-21 (loan)
Maxim Dominguez	February 1, 1996	0	0	FC Lausanne Sports
Edimilson Fernandes *	April 15, 1996	6th	2	England West Ham United
Anto Grgić *	November 28, 1996	7th	0	FC Sion (loan)
Nicolas Haas *	January 23, 1996	7th	1	Italy Atalanta Bergamo
Vasilije Janjičić	November 2, 1998	0	0	Germany Hamburger SV
Stefan Knežević *	October 30, 1996	2	0	FC Luzern
Dereck Kutesa	December 6, 1997	0	0	FC St. Gallen
Sandro Lauper *	October 25, 1996	7th	0	BSC Young Boys
Jordan Lotomba *	September 29, 1998	5	0	BSC Young Boys
Nikola Milosavljevic *	April 24, 1996	1	0	FC Winterthur (loan)
Charles pimple	May 15, 1997	0	0	Grasshopper Club Zurich
Petar Pušić *	January 25, 1999	1	0	Grasshopper Club Zurich
Fabian Rohner *	August 17, 1998	1	0	FC Zurich
Kevin Rüegg *	August 5, 1998	5	0	FC Zurich
Dominik Schmid *	March 10, 1998	3	0	FC Lausanne-Sport (loan)
Djibril Sow *	February 6, 1997	6th	1	BSC Young Boys
Bastien Toma *	June 24, 1999	1	0	FC Sion
Ruben Vargas	August 5, 1998	0	0	FC Luzern
Storm
João Oliveira *	January 6, 1996	9	0	FC Lausanne Sports
Albian Ajeti *	February 26, 1997	8th	0	FC Basel
Shkelqim Demhasaj *	April 19, 1996	2	0	FC Luzern
Nicolas Hunziker *	February 23, 1996	5	2	FC Thun
Cedric Itten *	December 27, 1996	5	0	FC St. Gallen
Neftali Manzambi	April 23, 1997	0	0	Sporting Gijón (Loan)
Dimitri Oberlin *	September 27, 1997	9	5	FC Basel
Marvin Spielmann *	February 23, 1996	9	2	FC Thun
Andi Zeqiri *	June 22, 1999	2	0	FC Lausanne-Sport (loan)
As of May 25, 2018