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The Switzerland national football team earned a silver medal at the 1924 Olympic Games held in Paris. They lost to Uruguay in the final with a score of 3, 0 and this achievement remains their best result ever.
England-born Roy Hodgson became head coach of the Swiss national team in 1992 when the country had not qualified for any major tournament since 1966. Under his leadership, Switzerland rose to third place in the FIFA World Ranking by August 1993 which still stands as their highest position today.
Switzerland set a record at the 2006 FIFA World Cup by being eliminated without conceding a single goal and that streak continued until Mark González scored against Chile in the 75th minute during the 2010 World Cup. That goal ended a 559-minute run without allowing a score in World Cup matches which surpassed the previous record held by Italy by nine minutes.
During the 2018 World Cup match against Serbia, Xherdan Shaqiri and Granit Xhaka performed a celebration involving crossed hands to depict a double-headed eagle while Stephan Lichtsteiner joined them in the gesture. The symbol is considered an Albanian nationalist emblem but FIFA did not ban the trio despite public criticism and the match ended with a 2, 1 Swiss victory thanks to a late goal from Shaqiri.
Granit Xhaka holds the record for most appearances with 143 caps between 2011 and 2025 and he has scored 16 goals during his career spanning over a decade. Alexander Frei leads all-time scoring with 42 goals across 84 matches played from 2001 to 2019.