FC Zürich Frauen

FC Zürich Frauen is a women's 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 22 national championships and has won the Cup 14 times.

FC Zürich Frauen
Founded24 April 1970
GroundHeerenschürli
ChairmanMarion Daube
ManagerIvan Dal Santo
LeagueNationalliga A
2018–191st
WebsiteClub website

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 city quarter of Hirzenbach where the youth teams of FC Zürich are based. The team played its Champions League games at first at stadium Schützenwiese in Winterthur. Since 2012 these games are hosted in the Letzigrund stadium in Zürich, where on 13.11.2013 a record attendance for Swiss women's football of 7,304 fans watched the round of 16 return game against FC Barcelona.[1]

FC Zürich Frauen ist Swiss record champion and 2nd in the alltime table only behind FFC 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.

Titles

Official
  • Swiss champion Nationalliga A:
    • 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: 9 (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019)
  • Swiss Women's Cup winner:
    • as SV Seebach Zürich: 7 (1981, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993)
    • as FFC Zürich Seebach: 1 (2007)
    • as FC Zürich Frauen: 6 (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019)

Invitational

Current squad

As of 11 September 2019, according to the club's website.[4]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 GK Lydia Peng
3 DF Erica Cunningham
6 DF Luna Lempérière
7 MF Martina Moser
8 DF Julia Stierli
9 FW Antigona Kuqi
10 DF Rahel Moser
11 FW Barla Deplazes
13 MF Cinzia Zehnder
14 DF Riana Fischer
16 MF Annina Enz
17 MF Seraina Piubel
No. Position Player
19 FW Meriame Terchoun
20 FW Fabienne Humm
21 GK Vivian Kaspar
22 DF Lorena Baumann
23 FW Lydia Andrade
24 FW Kim Dubs
26 MF Vanessa Hoti
27 MF Alissia Piperata
28 MF Ella Ljustina
29 DF Onyinyechi Zogg
MF Mona Gubler

Former players

References
  1. "FCZ Frauen unterliegen Barcelona und scheiden aus". fcz.ch. 13 November 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
  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. Squad at FC Zürich Frauen website
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