Swiss Football Association
{{Short description|Governing body of association football in Switzerland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2025}}
{{National football association
|Logo = SFV Logo.svg
|Founded = {{start date and age|7 April 1895}}
|FIFA affiliation = 1904
|Region = UEFA
|Region affiliation = 1954
|President = Dominique Blanc
|Headquarters=Bern, Switzerland}}
The Swiss Football Association ({{langx|de|Schweizerischer Fussballverband}}, {{langx|fr|Association Suisse de Football}}, {{langx|it|Associazione Svizzera di Football/Calcio}}, {{langx|rm|Associaziun Svizra da Ballape}}) is the governing body of football in Switzerland. It organizes the football league, the Swiss Football League and the Switzerland national football team. It is based in Bern.
It was formed in 1895, was a founder member of FIFA in 1904 and joined UEFA during its foundation year, 1954.{{cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=sui/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100208165254/http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=SUI/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 February 2010 |title=Switzerland |publisher=UEFA |language=en |access-date=3 February 2025}} FIFA is based in Zurich. Also UEFA is based in the Swiss city of Nyon.
ASF-SFV is the abbreviation of the associations name in three of the national languages of Switzerland. ASF stands for both French (Association Suisse de Football) and Italian (Associazione Svizzera di Football), while SFV is the German (Schweizerischer Fussballverband).- Romansh - It is abbreviated as ASB (Associaziun Svizra da Ballape).
Origins
Switzerland was the first country in Continental Europe to adhere to football, which was introduced in the 1860s by Anglo-Saxon students and teachers from Swiss private schools in the French-speaking part of the country around Lausanne and Geneva, forming teams that initially played a mixture of rugby and football.{{cite web |url=https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/2023/04/fussballverband/ |title=Die frühe Fussballnation Schweiz |trans-title=The early football nation Switzerland |language=de |website=blog.nationalmuseum.ch |access-date=10 February 2024 }}{{cite web |url=https://cosmopolis.ch/de/die-geschichte-des-fussballs/ |title=Die Geschichte des Fussballs |trans-title=The History of Football |language=de |website=cosmopolis.ch |date=30 September 2000 |access-date=10 February 2024 }} There is documentation from Geneva that football was played at the Château de Lancy and La Châtelaine institutes in the 1860s.{{cite web |url=https://www.credit-suisse.com/ch/de/about-us/sponsorship/news-and-stories/articles/news-and-expertise/2003/09/de/the-history-of-football-in-switzerland.html |title=Die englische Krankheit die Schweiz |trans-title=The English disease reaches Switzerland |language=de |website=www.credit-suisse.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160510083336/https://www.credit-suisse.com/ch/de/about-us/sponsorship/news-and-stories/articles/news-and-expertise/2003/09/de/the-history-of-football-in-switzerland.html |access-date=10 February 2024 |archive-date=10 May 2016 }} Another club founded by English students was the Lausanne Football and Cricket Club, which was established in 1860, thus being the first football club in Continental Europe, being only three years younger than Sheffield; however, it is likely that Lausanne initially played cricket and only began to practice football in the 1870s.
The oldest Swiss club still in existence, FC St. Gallen, was founded in 1879, by locals from the embroidery industry in German-speaking Switzerland, who had learned about the game from English students; it was followed in 1886 by the Grasshopper Club Zurich. In 1895, Lausanne FCC, St. Gallen, and the Grasshopper Zurich clubs, were among the founding members of the Swiss Football Association. The SFV was one of the seven national associations that founded the world football association FIFA in 1904.
Presidents
References
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External links
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- {{Official website}} {{in lang|de}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070618193410/http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=sui/index.html Switzerland] at FIFA site (archived 18 June 2007)
- [http://www.safp.ch Swiss Association of Football Players] (Association of football players)
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{{UEFA associations}}
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Category:1895 establishments in Switzerland
Category:Football in Switzerland
Category:Futsal in Switzerland
Category:Organisations based in Bern