Switzerland at the

FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called

the Football World Cup, but usually
referred to simply as the World Cup, is an
international association football
competition contested by the men's
national teams of the members of
Fédération Internationale de Football
Association (FIFA), the sport's global
governing body. The championship has
been awarded every four years since the
first tournament in 1930, except in 1942
and 1946 due to World War II.

Switzerland vs Costa Rica match in

Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

The tournament consists of two parts,

the qualification phase and the final
phase (officially called the World Cup
Finals). The qualification phase, which
currently take place over the three years
preceding the Finals, is used to
determine which teams qualify for the
Finals. The current format of the Finals
involves 32 teams competing for the title,
at venues within the host nation (or
nations) over a period of about a month.
The World Cup Finals is the most widely
viewed sporting event in the world, with
an estimated 715.1 million people
watching the 2006 tournament final.

Switzerland have appeared in the finals

of the World Cup on twelve occasions,
and have reached the quarter-finals three
times, in 1934, 1938 and 1954.

World Cup record

Switzerland's record at FIFA World
Cups:[1]
Year Round Position Pld W D* L GF GA

1930 Did not enter

1934 7th 2 1 0 1 5 5
Quarter-finals
1938 7th 3 1 1 1 5 5

1950 Group stage 6th 3 1 1 1 4 6

1954 Quarter-finals 8th 4 2 0 2 11 11

1958 Did not qualify

1962 16th 3 0 0 3 2 8
Group stage
1966 16th 3 0 0 3 1 9

1970

1974

1978
Did not qualify
1982

1986

1990

1994 Round of 16 16th 4 1 1 2 5 7

1998
Did not qualify
2002

2006 Round of 16 10th 4 2 2 0 4 0

2010 Group stage 19th 3 1 1 1 1 1

2014 11th 4 2 0 2 7 7

2018 Round of 16 14th 4 1 2 1 5 5

2022 12th 4 2 0 2 5 9

2026 To be determined

2030 To be determined

2034 To be determined

2038 To be determined

Total Quarter-finals 12/22 41 14 8 19 55 73

 *Draws include knockout matches
decided on penalty kicks.
Switzerland's World Cup record

Switzerland 3–2 Netherlands

First Match
(27 May 1934; Milan, Italy)

Switzerland 4–1 Italy

(23 June 1954; Basel, Switzerland)
Switzerland 4–1 Romania
Biggest Win
(22 June 1994; Pontiac, United States)
Honduras 0–3 Switzerland
(25 June 2014; Manaus, Brazil)

West Germany 5–0 Switzerland

(12 July 1966; Sheffield, England)
Biggest Defeat
Portugal 6–1 Switzerland
(6 December 2022; Lusail, Qatar)

Best Result Quarter-finals in 1934, 1938 and 1954

Worst Result Group stage in 1950, 1962, 1966 and 2010

By match
World Switzerland
Round Opponent Score Result Venue
Cup scorers

Round of Kielholz (2),

Netherlands 3–2 W Milan
16 Abegglen
1934
Quarter- Kielholz,
Czechoslovakia 2–3 L Turin
finals Jäggi

1–1
Germany D Paris Abegglen
(a.e.t.)
Round of
Walaschek,
16 Germany
1938 4–2 W Paris Bickel,
(replay)
Abegglen (2)

Quarter-
Hungary 0–2 L Lille —
finals

Belo
Yugoslavia 0–3 L —
Horizonte
Group
1950 Brazil 2–2 D São Paulo Fatton (2)
stage
Bader,
Mexico 2–1 W Porto Alegre
Antenen

Ballaman,
Italy 2–1 W Lausanne
Hügi

Group England 0–2 L Bern —

stage
Hügi (2),
1954
Italy (play-off) 4–1 W Basel Ballaman,
Fatton

Quarter- Ballaman (2),

Austria 5–7 L Lausanne
final Hügi (3)

Chile 1–3 L Santiago Wüthrich

Group
1962 West Germany 1–2 L Santiago Schneiter
stage
Italy 0–3 L Santiago —
World Switzerland
Round Opponent Score Result Venue
Cup scorers

West Germany 0–5 L Sheffield —

Group
1966 Spain 1–2 L Sheffield Quentin
stage
Argentina 0–2 L Sheffield —

United States 1–1 D Pontiac Bregy

Sutter,
Group
Romania 4–1 W Pontiac Chapuisat,
stage
1994 Knup (2)

Colombia 0–2 L Palo Alto —

Round of
Spain 0–3 L Washington —
16

France 0–0 D Stuttgart —

Group
Togo 2–0 W Dortmund Frei, Barnetta
stage
South Korea 2–0 W Hanover Senderos, Frei
2006
0–0
Round of
Ukraine (a.e.t.) D Cologne —
16
(0–3 p)

Spain 1–0 W Durban Fernandes

Group
2010 Chile 0–1 L Port Elizabeth —
stage
Honduras 0–0 D Bloemfontein —

Mehmedi,
Ecuador 2–1 W Brasília
Seferovic
Group
Džemaili,
stage France 2–5 L Salvador
2014 Xhaka

Honduras 3–0 W Manaus Shaqiri (3)

Round of 0–1
Argentina L São Paulo —
16 (a.e.t.)

2018 Group Rostov-on-

Brazil 1–1 D Zuber
stage Don

Serbia 2–1 W Kaliningrad Xhaka, Shaqiri

World Switzerland
Round Opponent Score Result Venue
Cup scorers

Nizhny Džemaili,
Costa Rica 2–2 D
Novgorod Drmić

Round of Saint
Sweden 0–1 L —
16 Petersburg

Cameroon 1–0 W Al Wakrah Embolo

Brazil 0–1 L Doha —

Group
stage Shaqiri,
2022 Serbia 3–2 W Doha Embolo,
Freuler

Round of
Portugal 1–6 L Lusail Akanji
16

Match records

1934 FIFA World Cup

The group stage used in the first World

Cup was discarded in favour of a straight
knockout tournament.

27 May 1934 (first round)

16:30 (CEST)