The Switzerland men's national ice hockey team (; ; ) is a founding member of the

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(IIHF) and is controlled by the

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. As of 2024, the Swiss team is ranked 5th in the

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History

Bibi Torriani served as the Switzerland national

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from 1933 to 1939. He played on a forward line known as "The ni-storm" (), with brothers Hans Cattini and Ferdinand Cattini. The line was named for the last syllable (''-ni'') of players' surnames. The ni-storm was regarded as the top line of HC Davos and Switzerland's national hockey team. Torriani served as

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of the Switzerland men's national ice hockey team in 1946–47, and again from 1948 to 1949 to 1951–52. From a bronze medal at the 1953 World Championships until the silver medal of 2013 and 2018, Switzerland did not win a medal at a major senior

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tournament, coming close in 1992 and 1998, when they finished in 4th place at the

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Championships both years. Before the 2013 IIHF World Championship, the Swiss national hockey team scored two historic upsets at the

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, defeating the

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3–2 and shutting out

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2–0 two days later. They finally fell to

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in the quarterfinals. At the

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, the Swiss nearly stunned Canada again in round-robin play, taking the heavily favored Canadians to a shootout, which they lost 1–0 for a narrow 3–2 loss. Switzerland vs Germany WC 2009

Tournament record

Overview

Olympic Games

World Championship

*1930 – Won bronze medal *1933 – Finished tied in 5th place *1934 – Finished in 4th place *1935 – Won silver medal *1937 – Won bronze medal *1938 – Finished in 6th place *1939 – Won bronze medal *1947 – Finished in 4th place *1949 – Finished in 5th place *1950 – Won bronze medal awarded Silver as European Champion *1951 – Won bronze medal *1953 – Won bronze medal *1954 – Finished in 7th place *1955 – Finished in 8th place *1959 – Finished in 12th place *1961 – Finished in 11th place (3rd in Pool B) *1962 – Finished in 7th place *1963 – Finished in 10th place (2nd in Pool B) *1965 – Finished in 10th place (2nd in Pool B) *1966 – Finished in 14th place (6th in Pool B) *1967 – Finished in 15th place (7th in Pool B) *1969 – Finished in 16th place (2nd in Pool C) *1970 – Finished in 12th place (6th in Pool B) *1971 – Finished in 7th place (won Pool B) *1972 – Finished in 6th place *1973 – Finished in 13th place (7th in Pool B) *1974 – Finished in 15th place (won Pool C) *1975 – Finished in 9th place (2nd in Pool B) *1976 – Finished in 12th place (4th in Pool B) *1977 – Finished in 13th place (5th in Pool B) *1978 – Finished in 11th place (3rd in Pool B) *1979 – Finished in 13th place (5th in Pool B) *1981 – Finished in 11th place (3rd in Pool B) *1982 – Finished in 14th place (6th in Pool B) *1983 – Finished in 14th place (6th in Pool B) *1985 – Finished in 10th place (2nd in Pool B) *1986 – Finished in 9th place (won Pool B) *1987 – Finished in 8th place *1989 – Finished in 12th place (4th in Pool B) *1990 – Finished in 9th place (won Pool B) *1991 – Finished in 7th place *1992 – Finished in 4th place *1993 – Finished in 10th place *1994 – Finished in 13th place (won Pool B) *1995 – Finished in 12th place *

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

– Finished in 14th place (2nd in Pool B) *

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

– Finished in 15th place (3rd in Pool B) *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

– Finished in 4th place *

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

– Finished in 8th place *

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

– Finished in 6th place *

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

– Finished in 9th place *

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

– Finished in 10th place *

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

– Finished in 8th place *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

– Finished in 8th place *

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

– Finished in 8th place *

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

– Finished in 9th place *

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

– Finished in 8th place *

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

– Finished in 7th place *

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

– Finished in 9th place *

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

– Finished in 5th place *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

– Finished in 9th place *

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

– Finished in 11th place *

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

– Won silver medal *

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

– Finished in 10th place *

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

– Finished in 8th place *

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

– Finished in 11th place *

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

– Finished in 6th place *

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

– Won silver medal *

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

– Finished in 8th place *

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

– Cancelled due to the

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

– Finished in 6th place *

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

– Finished in 5th place *

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

– Finished in 5th place *

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

– Won silver medal *

2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

– Won silver medal

European Championship

Spengler Cup

*1964 – Finished in 4th place *1967 – Won bronze medal *1968 – Finished in 4th place *1972 – Finished in 4th place *1974 – Finished in 4th place *1975 – Finished in 4th place *1976 – Won bronze medal *1977 – Finished in 5th place *1978 – Finished in 5th place *1979 – Finished in 5th place *

– Won silver medal

Deutschland Cup

* Gold medal (

)

Euro Hockey Tour

* 2022–23 – Finished in 4th place * 2023–24 – Finished in 4th place * 2024–25 – Finished in

Current roster

Roster for the 2025 IIHF World Championship. Head coach: Patrick Fischer

Uniform evolution

File:Switzerland national ice hockey team jerseys 1988 (WOG).png, 1988 Olympic jerseys File:Switzerland national ice hockey team jerseys 1991.png, 1992 Olympic and 1991–1993 IIHF jerseys File:Switzerland national ice hockey team jerseys 1998-2000.png, 1998 Olympic and 1999–2000 IIHF jerseys File:Switzerland national ice hockey team jerseys 1998 IIHF IHWC.png, 1998 IIHF jerseys File:Switzerland national ice hockey team jerseys 2001-2004.png, 2001–2004 IIHF and 2002 Olympic jerseys File:Switzerland national hockey team jerseys.png, former jerseys File:Switzerland national hockey team jerseys - 2014 Winter Olympics.png, 2014 Olympic jerseys File:Switzerland national hockey team jerseys 2014.png, 2014–2016 IIHF jerseys File:Switzerland national hockey team jerseys 2017.png, 2017 IIHF jerseys File:Switzerland national ice hockey team jerseys 2018 (WOG).png, 2018 Olympic jerseys File:Switzerland national ice hockey team jerseys 2018 IHWC.png, 2018–2021 IIHF jerseys File:Switzerland national ice hockey team jerseys 2022 (WOG).png, 2022 Olympic jerseys

References

External links

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