It was formed in 1895, was a founder member of FIFA in 1904 and joined UEFA during its foundation year, 1954.[1]FIFA is based inZurich. AlsoUEFA is based in the Swiss city ofNyon.
ASF-SFV is the abbreviation of the associations name in three of the national languages ofSwitzerland.ASF stands for bothFrench (Association Suisse de Football) andItalian (Associazione Svizzera di Football), whileSFV is theGerman (Schweizerischer Fussballverband).-Romansh - It is abbreviated asASB (Associaziun Svizra da Ballape).
Switzerland was the first country inContinental Europe to adhere to football, which was introduced in the 1860s by Anglo-Saxon students and teachers from Swiss private schools in the French-speaking part of the country aroundLausanne andGeneva, forming teams that initially played a mixture of rugby and football.[2][3] There is documentation from Geneva that football was played at theChâteau de Lancy and La Châtelaine institutes in the 1860s.[4] Another club founded by English students was theLausanne Football and Cricket Club, which was established in 1860, thus being the first football club in Continental Europe, being only three years younger thanSheffield; however, it is likely that Lausanne initially played cricket and only began to practice football in the 1870s.[3]
The oldest Swiss club still in existence,FC St. Gallen, was founded in 1879, by locals from the embroidery industry in German-speaking Switzerland, who had learned about the game from English students; it was followed in 1886 by theGrasshopper Club Zurich.[3] In 1895, Lausanne FCC, St. Gallen, and the Grasshopper Zurich clubs, were among the founding members of the Swiss Football Association. The SFV was one of the seven national associations that founded the world football association FIFA in 1904.
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