Switzerland

SC Freiburg have slowly evolved from a small, local club into a fully-fledged Bundesliga powerhouse. The club from the Black Forest finished in the top six in three of the last four seasons, qualifying for European football multiple times in a row just a couple of years after being relegated...

Switzerland faced Sweden in the third match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers at the Strawberry Arena in Stockholm. With a deserved 0-2 win, the Swiss lead the group and have now reached nine points in the group standings. Switzerland can now secure their World Cup ticket with a win in Slovenia...

Last month, TSG Hoffenheim secured the services of Leon Avdullahu from Swiss champions FC Basel for a fee of €8m, making him their most expensive summer acquisition to date. Following the departures of Tom Bischof and Diadié Samassékou and the now-rumoured sale of Anton Stach to Leeds United, Hoffenheim went...

The way teams evolve their tactics to utilise playing with two holding midfielders, or a “double pivot”, is a tactic that undergoes constant tweaks at the elite level. Historically, one midfielder would simply occupy one half of the pitch and the other the opposite half. In this year’s European Championship,...

As the quarter-finals of the 2024 UEFA European Championship approach, we have had our first real taste of an upset as defending champions Italy were dumped out of the competition by Switzerland. Murat Yakin led the Swiss to a second-place finish in Group A, winning one and drawing two. Their...

Switzerland will enter Euro 2024 with the hope of achieving what they couldn’t manage in the previous editions despite playing well in most of the recent Euros. It is fair to say that Switzerland have already started to achieve greater results than before in the last two tournaments since they...

Bologna’s impressive season has seen them qualify for the UEFA Champions League for the first time. They had, however, featured in the competition when it was called the European Cup. A collective team effort has enabled them to accomplish this feat, and a key part of that is Switzerland’s Dan...

In a transfer that was announced early, and while the season was still ongoing, 21-year-old Swiss international midfielder Ardon Jashari is joining Club Brugge from Swiss Super League side FC Luzern for a fee in the region of €6 million. Jashari has been one of the best defensive midfielders in...

Noemi Ivelj is an exciting seventeen-year-old deep midfielder who was listed on UEFA’s ten women’s players to watch in 2024, alongside players such as Chelsea’s Aggie Beaver-Jones and Barcelona’s Giulia Dragoni. Having made her full Swiss national team debut at just sixteen years of age, coming off the bench to...

In the final group stage games of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Brazil suffered their first defeat of the tournament by losing 1-0 to Cameroon, while Switzerland secured their place in the last 16 by beating Serbia 3-2 in a highly eventful fixture. This piece will provide a tactical analysis...

The general view at Manchester City is that a squad needs a minimum of seven senior defenders. After failing to bring in a senior left-back target and ultimately signing talented yet relatively inexperienced left-back Sergio Gómez from RSC Anderlecht, City still fell one short of its seven-defender plan. With injuries...

Over the last couple of years, the Italian National team have been through some difficult times - World Cup winners in 2006, to suddenly facing a defeat in the quarter-finals of the 2016 European Championship and failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. It is safe to say that...