Switzerland men's national handball team

The Switzerland national handball team is the national handball team of Switzerland.

Switzerland
Information
Association	Swiss Handball Association
Coach	Michael Suter
Assistant coach	Matthias Gysin Marcel Tobler
Captain	Luka Maros
Most caps	Max Schär (279)[1]
Most goals	Marc Baumgartner (1093)[1]
Colours
Home Away
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	4 (First in 1936)
Best result	3rd (1936)
World Championship
Appearances	11 (First in 1954)
Best result	4th (1954, 1993)
European Championship
Appearances	4 (First in 2002)
Best result	12th (2004)
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Switzerland men's national handball team

Medal record
Olympic Games
	1936 Berlin	Team
World Outdoor Championship
	1938 Germany
	1955 West Germany
	1948 France
	1952 Switzerland
	1963 Switzerland

Competitive record

Olympic Games

Olympic record
Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1936 Berlin[lower-alpha 1]	Third place	3rd of 6	5	2	0	4	33	52
Not held from 1948 to 1968
1972 Munich	Did not qualify
1976 Montreal
1980 Moscow	Match for 7th place	8th of 12	6	2	0	4	132	121
1984 Los Angeles	Match for 7th place	7th of 12	6	3	0	3	100	119
1988 Seoul	Did not qualify
1992 Barcelona
1996 Atlanta	Match for 7th place	8th of 12	6	2	0	4	142	138
2000 Sydney	Did not qualify
2004 Athens
2008 Beijing
2012 London
2016 Rio de Janeiro
2020 Tokyo
Total	4/14	–	44	23	9	15	407	430

1. The Handball tournament at the 1936 Summer Olympics was a Field handball tournament.

World Championship

World Championship record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1938	Did not qualify
1954	Fourth place	4	3	0	1	2	31	55
1958	Did not qualify
1961	Preliminary round	10	2	0	0	2	25	32
1964	Preliminary round	12	3	1	0	2	38	56
1967	Preliminary round	14	3	0	0	3	45	65
1970	Preliminary round	15	3	0	0	3	29	48
1974	Did not qualify
1978
1982	Second round	12	6	1	2	3	94	103
1986	Second round	11	6	1	1	4	100	124
1990	Main Round	13	3	1	0	2	46	57
1993	Fourth place	4	7	4	0	3	161	160
1995	Quarter-finals	7	9	7	0	2	224	203
1997	Did not qualify
1999
2001
2003
2005
2007
2009
2011
2013
2015
2017
/ 2019
2021	Main Round	16	6	3	0	3	153	156
/ 2023	TBD
// 2025
2027
Total	11/30	–	51	18	4	29	946	1059

World Outdoor Championship

World Outdoor Championship record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1938	Runners-up	2nd of 10	3	2	0	1	14	27
1948	Third place	3rd of 4	3	2	0	1	37	22
1952	Third place	3rd of 15	5	4	0	1	58	41
1955	Runners-up	2nd of 8	6	5	0	1	75	59
1959	Match for 5th place	5 of 7	4	2	0	2	50	43
1963	Third place	3rd of 8	4	3	0	1	62	44
1966	Main round	5 of 6	5	1	0	4	68	76
Total	7/7	–	30	19	0	11	364	312

Switzerland is the only country which played at every Field Handball World Championship.

European Championship

European Championship record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1994	Did not qualify
1996
1998
2000
2002	Preliminary round	13	3	0	1	2	78	91
2004	Preliminary round	12	6	1	0	5	140	175
2006	Preliminary round	14	3	0	1	2	86	97
2008	Did not qualify
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020	Preliminary round	16	3	1	0	2	77	87
2022	To be determined
2024
Total	4/16	–	15	2	2	11	381	450

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship.[2][3]

Head coach: Michael Suter

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 2 CB Andy Schmid 30 August 1983 1.89 m 190 935 Rhein-Neckar Löwen 4 LB Lenny Rubin 1 February 1996 2.05 m 46 150 HSG Wetzlar 6 RW Cedrie Tynowski 21 September 1996 1.87 m 30 73 Pfadi Winterthur 8 P Michal Svajlen 12 April 1989 1.96 m 95 104 Pfadi Winterthur 9 LW Marvin Lier 8 September 1992 1.85 m 73 178 Pfadi Winterthur 11 LB Roman Sidorowicz 8 August 1991 1.87 m 71 164 Pfadi Winterthur 12 GK Leonard Grazioli 19 January 2001 1.93 m 4 0 HSC Suhr Aarau 15 RB Nicolas Raemy 25 February 1992 1.86 m 72 200 Wacker Thun 16 GK Nikola Portner 19 November 1993 1.94 m 99 12 Chambéry Handball 17 P Samuel Röthlisberger 15 August 1996 1.99 m 55 15 TVB 1898 Stuttgart 20 LB Luka Maros 20 March 1994 1.96 m 51 117 Kadetten Schaffhausen 22 CB Jonas Schelker 9 April 1999 1.82 m 16 20 Kadetten Schaffhausen 25 RW Nik Tominec 26 March 1991 1.87 m 23 15 Kadetten Schaffhausen 27 RW Maximilian Gerbl 25 June 1995 1.79 m 40 71 Kadetten Schaffhausen 29 LW Samuel Zehnder 29 February 2000 1.84 m 21 36 Kadetten Schaffhausen 31 GK Aurel Bringolf 2 November 1987 1.90 m 78 2 TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen 34 P Alen Milosevic 24 December 1989 1.91 m 56 110 SC DHfK Leipzig 36 P Philip Novak 11 April 1999 1.98 m 19 1 Kadetten Schaffhausen 44 CB Mehdi Ben Romdhane 2 December 2001 1.89 m 5 1 Kadetten Schaffhausen

Player statistics

Most capped players[1] # Player Games Goals Position 1 Max Schär 279 724 OB 2 Peter Hürlimann 241 0 GK 3 Martin Rubin 239 878 OB 4 Manuel Liniger 214 891 LW 5 Hans Huber 211 413 ? 6 René Barth 206 251 ? 7 Stefan Schärer 204 533 ? 8 Iwan Ursic 195 571 P 9 Andy Schmid 190 935 CB 10 Robert Jehle 190 572 ?

Top scorers[1] # Player Goals Average Position 1 Marc Baumgartner 1093 6,47 LB 2 Andy Schmid 935 4,92 CB 2 Manuel Liniger 891 4,24 LW 3 Martin Rubin 878 3,67 OB 5 Robert Kostadinovich 771 4,26 ? 6 Ernst Züllig 748 4,25 ? 7 Max Schär 724 2,59 OB 8 Robert Jehle 572 3,01 ? 9 Iwan Ursic 571 2,93 P 10 Stefan Schärer 533 2,61 ?

References

1. "Hall-of-fame". www.handball.ch (in French). Retrieved 3 February 2021.
2. "Reise, Spielplan, Kaderliste – Update zur Schweizer WM-Teilnahme" (in German). handball.ch. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
3. "Team Roster Switzerland" (PDF). ihf.info. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021.

External links

• Official website
• IHF profile