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	Andy Schmid
Assistant coach	Thomas Zimmermann
Most caps	Max Schär (279)[1]
Most goals	Marc Baumgartner (1093)[1]
Colours
1st 2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	4 (First in 1936)
Best result	3rd (1936)
World Championship
Appearances	12 (First in 1954)
Best result	4th (1954, 1993)
European Championship
Appearances	5 (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[a]	Third place	3rd of 6	5	2	0	3	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	101	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
2024 Paris
Total	4/14	–	23	9	0	14	408	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	did not qualify
// 2025	Main Round	11	6	3	1	2	174	166
2027	TBD
/ 2029
// 2031
Total	12/32	–	57	21	5	31	1120	1215

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		12	6	1	0	5	140	175
2006		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	did not qualify
2024	Preliminary round	21	3	0	1	2	67	82
2026	To be determined
2028	Qualified as co-host
Total	6/18	–	18	2	3	13	448	532

Team

Current squad

Roster for the 2025 World Men's Handball Championship.^[2][3]

Head coach: Andy Schmid

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 3 P Lucas Meister (1996-08-16) 16 August 1996 (age 28) 1.96 m 85 207 Kadetten Schaffhausen 4 LB Lenny Rubin (1996-02-01) 1 February 1996 (age 28) 2.05 m 77 280 TVB Stuttgart 6 RW Gian Attenhofer (2002-04-26) 26 April 2002 (age 22) 1.85 m 6 2 ThSV Eisenach 11 CB Felix Aellen (2003-10-11) 11 October 2003 (age 21) 1.84 m 11 16 BSV Bern 13 RB Michael Kusio (1998-08-31) 31 August 1998 (age 26) 1.95 m 17 6 BSV Bern 16 GK Nikola Portner (1993-11-19) 19 November 1993 (age 31) 1.94 m 132 30 SC Magdeburg 17 P Samuel Röthlisberger (1996-08-15) 15 August 1996 (age 28) 1.99 m 83 22 TVB Stuttgart 18 RB Dimitrij Küttel (1994-02-18) 18 February 1994 (age 30) 1.92 m 81 162 HC Kriens-Luzern 20 LB Luka Maros (1994-03-20) 20 March 1994 (age 30) 1.96 m 72 154 Kadetten Schaffhausen 21 RW Gino Steenaerts (2005-05-05) 5 May 2005 (age 19) 1.84 m 4 6 HC Kriens-Luzern 23 P Lukas Laube (2000-04-22) 22 April 2000 (age 24) 1.92 m 26 61 TVB Stuttgart 28 CB Luca Sigrist (2005-10-04) 4 October 2005 (age 19) 1.87 m 2 3 HC Kriens-Luzern 29 LW Samuel Zehnder (2000-02-29) 29 February 2000 (age 24) 1.83 m 52 103 TBV Lemgo 30 P Joël Willecke (2003-11-23) 23 November 2003 (age 21) 1.96 m 23 7 HSC Suhr Aarau 35 LW Noam Leopold (2002-07-17) 17 July 2002 (age 22) 1.81 m 8 4 HBC Nantes 38 GK Jannis Scheidiger (2002-08-08) 8 August 2002 (age 22) 1.93 m 8 2 HSC Suhr Aarau 40 GK Mathieu Seravalli (2004-09-15) 15 September 2004 (age 20) 1.90 m 3 0 BSV Bern 44 LB Mehdi Ben Romdhane (2001-12-02) 2 December 2001 (age 23) 1.89 m 31 32 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 Andy Schmid 218 1094 CB 5 Manuel Liniger 214 891 LW 6 Hans Huber 211 413  ? 7 René Barth 206 251  ? 8 Stefan Schärer 204 533  ? 9 Iwan Ursic 195 571 P 10 Robert Jehle 190 572  ?

Top scorers[1] # Player Goals Average Position 1 Andy Schmid 1094 4,92 CB 2 Marc Baumgartner 1093 6,47 LB 3 Manuel Liniger 891 4,24 LW 4 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. "Andy Schmid benennt seinen finalen WM-Kader" (in German). handball.ch. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
3. "Team Roster Switzerland" (PDF). ihf.info. 15 January 2025. Retrieved 16 January 2025.

External links

• Official website
• IHF profile