FC Zürich Frauen

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Zürich Frauen
Full nameFussballclub Zürich Frauen
Founded21 February 1968; 55 years ago (1968-02-21) (DFC Zürich)
24 April 1970; 53 years ago (1970-04-24) (SV Seebach women)
GroundHeerenschürli
ChairmanRegula Kuhn
ManagerInka Grings
LeagueSuper League
2021-20221st
WebsiteClub website

FC Zürich Frauen is a women's association football club from Zürich, Switzerland. Its first team plays since the founding of the Swiss national league in 1970 in the first division. The team has won 23 national championships and has won the Cup 15 times.

History

FC Zürich Frauen was founded on 24 April 1970 as a section of SV Seebach, a football club founded 1916 from the Zurich city quarter of Seebach. 1980 the team won its first championship, one year later the team won the double. Until 2005 it totalled 12 Championships and 7 Cup wins.

That year the women's team of SV Seebach Zürich was spun off from the original club and rebranded under the name FFC Zürich Seebach. Between 2005 und 2008 the 13th championship followed and the 8th win of the Swiss Cup.

In summer 2008, the team was combined with FC Zürich. The name FFC Zürich Seebach was changed into FC Zürich Frauen. The very first Swiss women's football team had been founded on 21 February 1968 under the helm of FC Zürich as DFC Zürich, but later discontinued. In summer 2010, FC Zürich Frauen moved its home for league games and practice from Seebach to the Heerenschürli sport park in the city quarter of Hirzenbach where youth teams of FC Zürich were already based. In 2021, the club opened there a new "Home of FC Zürich" to bring the men's, women's and youth teams under one roof. [1]

FC Zürich Frauen is Swiss record champion before the women's team of BSC YB Frauen (including titles of FFC Bern and DFC Bern). After 10 years without the championship title the team won it in 2008 and was able to defend it in 2009 and 2010.[2][3]

In the UEFA competitions, Zürich reached the 2nd qualifying round in the 2008–09 UEFA Women's Cup. In the 2009-10 and 2010–11 UEFA Women's Champions League they reached the round of 32, and lost there to Linköping and Torres. In 2012-2013, the team played 1:1 and 0:1 in the round of 32 against the French top team Juvisy. In the 2013-2014 Champions League competition, FC Zürich was the first Swiss women's team to reach the Champions League round of 16 after playing 2:1 and 1:1 against Sparta Prague in the round of 32. In the following stage, the team lost against FC Barcelona 0:3 and 1:3.

Stadium

The Heerenschürli sport park also serves as home ground for the women's team of FC Zürich and most of the national league and cup games. The international games were played first at stadium Schützenwiese in Winterthur. Since 2012 these games are hosted at the Letzigrund stadium in Zürich.

On the 13th of November 2013, 7,304 fans watched the round of 16 second leg game against FC Barcelona, which was a record attendance for Swiss women's football for many years.[4] Servette FC Chênois Féminin broke the record in 2021, when they had 12,782 people at their home game against Chelsea F.C. Women in the newly introduced group stage of the UEFA Women's Champions League. However, when FC Zürich Frauen also qualified for the group stage a year later in 2022, the club's home stadium Letzigrund wasn't available due to scheduling issues. The three matches against Juventus, Lyon and Arsenal then were played at the Wefox Arena Schaffhausen, about 40km away from Zürich. The stadium's capacity of 8,000 then prevented another record attendance from the beginning.[5]

The sport park Heerenschürli is FC Zürich Frauen's home ground for their league and cup games.

Titles

Official

  • Swiss Champion (23):
    • as SV Seebach Zürich: 12 (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1998)
    • as FFC Zürich Seebach: 1 (2008)
    • as FC Zürich Frauen: 10 (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022)
  • Swiss Cup Champion (15):
    • as SV Seebach Zürich: 7 (1981, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993)
    • as FFC Zürich Seebach: 1 (2007)
    • as FC Zürich Frauen: 7 (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022)

Invitational

Current squad

As of 11 October 2022

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Switzerland SUI Seraina Friedli
2 DF Switzerland SUI Naomi Mégroz
4 FW Switzerland SUI Irina Pando
5 MF Switzerland SUI Vanessa Bernauer
6 DF Poland POL Oliwia Woś
8 DF Switzerland SUI Julia Stierli
7 FW Switzerland SUI Alyah Pilgrim
9 MF Greece GRE Eleni Markou
10 FW Austria AUT Viktoria Pinther
11 MF Switzerland SUI Nadine Riesen
12 DF Switzerland SUI Soraya Wulff
13 DF Switzerland SUI Luisa Süry
15 MF Switzerland SUI Marion Rey
16 MF Switzerland SUI Annina Enz
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 MF Switzerland SUI Seraina Piubel
18 MF Switzerland SUI Alissia Piperata
20 FW Switzerland SUI Fabienne Humm
21 GK Germany GER Lourdes Romero
22 MF Austria AUT Marie Höbinger
23 MF Switzerland SUI Noa Schärz
24 MF Switzerland SUI Kim Dubs
25 DF Switzerland SUI Siv Schefer
26 DF Germany GER Laura Vetterlein
27 MF Switzerland SUI Anna Matsushita
29 FW Switzerland SUI Sydney Schertenleib
31 GK Switzerland SUI Kim Bollmann
DF Switzerland SUI Leandra Flury
DF Kosovo KOS Viola Avduli

Former players

References

  1. ^ "FC Zürich weiht sein schmuckes 'House of FCZ' ein". nau.ch. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  2. ^ FCZ Frauen schlagen LUwin.ch mit 6:0 und sind Schweizer Meister Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (fcz.ch)
  3. ^ FCZ Frauen: Meischter, Schwiizer Meischter!!! Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (fcz.ch)
  4. ^ "FCZ Frauen unterliegen Barcelona und scheiden aus". fcz.ch. 13 November 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
  5. ^ "FCZ Frauen in Champions League - Stolze Prämie und Top-Gegnerinnen als Belohnung". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 4 October 2022. Retrieved 26 October 2022.

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