Switzerland is looking forward to the Euro 2008 football tournament, which it is hosting jointly with Austria. As a host country it qualifies automatically.

In the 2006 football World Cup played in Germany, in the first round Switzerland came out top of its group which also included France (the tournament's beaten finalist). But its dreams ended when it lost to Ukraine in a penalty shoot-out in the first stage of the knock-out rounds.

The national team's trainer, Köbi Kuhn, was elected Swiss of the Year by the Swiss TV viewing public in 2006 in recognition of the team's achievement.