The Swiss national football team also known as the Schweizer Nati is the national football team of Switzerland and is controlled by the Swiss Football Association. Its best performances in the World Cup have been reaching the quarter-finals, in 1934, 1938 and when the country hosted the event in 1954. Switzerland also won silver at the 1924 Olympics. The 2002 U-17 European Championship was won by the Nati. In 2006, Switzerland set a FIFA World Cup record by being eliminated from the competition despite not conceding a goal in any of their four matches. In addition, Switzerland was the only national team in Cup history to fail to score a single goal in a penalty shootout.

Switzerland is the Home team of the tournament so they joined tournament directly without playing qualifycations.

Switzerland is in Group A in the tournament with Turkey, Portugal and Czech Republic.Swiss will play on their home,so Swiss people’s expectations are too high.Switzerland will play the opening match of tournament aginst Czech Republic on 7 June 2008 at 18:00.

Swiss Players:

Goalkeepers: Diego Benaglio, Fabio Coltorti, Johnny Leoni, Germano Vailati, Pascal Zuberbühler

Defenders: Philipp Degen, Johan Djourou, Mario Eggimann, Stéphane Grichting, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Ludovic Magnin, Philippe Senderos, Christoph Spycher, Steve Von Bergen

Midfielders: Tranquillo Barnetta, Valon Behrami, Fabio Celestini, David Degen, Daniel Gygax, Benjamin Huggel,  Gökhan Inler, Xavier Margairaz, Gelson Fernandes, Johan Vonlanthen, Hakan Yakin, Reto Ziegler,

Forwards: Eren Derdiyok, Alexander Frei, Blaise Nkufo, Marco Streller

Jakob “Köbi” Kuhn (born October 12, 1943 in Zürich) is a Swiss football manager and former player. During his playing career he got 63 caps for Switzerland and played primarily for FC Zürich. He also played one match for the Swiss national team in the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England.

Appointed manager for the Swiss U-21 team some time after retiring, he was promoted to coach the senior national team in June 2001, replacing the Argentine Enzo Trossero. His appointment as head coach was first not universally applauded, but he has led the Swiss to the Euro 2004 and the second round of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He is second in all-time matches coached for the Swiss team, behind Karl Rappan.^[1]

Kuhn announced in October 2006 that he will terminate his engagement as manager of the Swiss squad after the EURO 2008. As the Swiss squad showed in recent games an unsatisfying performance, many observers believe that his announcement to step down was not helpful in regards of the EURO 08 tournament success. Kuhn was cited earlier it is the aim of the Swiss squad to win the tournament at home. A potential successor is Ottmar Hitzfeld who has himself thrown his hat into the ring for the job.