Raetia
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)The Grisons
AssociationRaetia Football Association
(Fussballauswahl Raetia)
ConfederationConIFA
Head coachSimone Fontana
CaptainMirco Oswald
First colours
Second colours
First international
 Chagos Islands 6–1 Raetia 
(Crawley, England; 4 December 2011)
Biggest win
Ticino Ticino 1–8 Raetia 
(Tenero-Contra, Switzerland; 17 June 2023)
Biggest defeat
 Gozo 17–1 Raetia 
(Xewkija, Malta; 14 January 2012)

The Raetia football team (German: Fussballauswahl Raetia) represents Grisons, formerly known as Raetia, in ConIFA association football.[1] The current head coach is Simone Fontana. The team is commonly referred to as The Grisons.[2]

History

Raetia's first game was played in December 2011 against the Chagos Islands national football team.[3][4] The second game took place in January 2012 on the island of Gozo against Gozo.[5][6]

The first home game was on 26 May 2012 against the fifth Team of FC St. Pauli in Domat/Ems and Raetia won 6–0.

Raetia was qualified to play the 2012 VIVA World Cup in the northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan. In the group matches they gained a victory against Tamil Eelam and a loss to Zanzibar the 2nd rank and missed the semi-finals only because of goal difference.[7][8]

On 6 September 2015 Raetia beat Franconia 6–0 and qualified for the 2016 ConIFA World Football Cup in Abkhazia.

In 2023, Raetia entered the 2024 CONIFA World Cup Qualifiers, where they beat Ticino 8-1, thus qualifying them for the competition. A few months later, they participated in their second Benedikt Fontana Cup, where they beat Ticino again, 5-1.

National anthem

The national anthem of Raetia is "A Tgalaveina":

Udis il clom en la vallada?
Si, si vus umens dils cumins!
La libertad el smanatschada,
Igl inimitg ei sils confins.

Refrain:
Fontana muoss'a nus la via atras
Ils flugs //dils battagliuns//.
Plitost la mort che sclaveria
Ei la parola dils Grischuns.

Players and managers

Notable players

Managers

Name Nationality Year
Rudolf Schmid
Switzerland
2011
Gian-Marco Schmid
Switzerland
2011–2012
Ursin Caviezel
Switzerland
2012
Costantino Demenga
Switzerland
2012–2014
Arsim Ramizi
SwitzerlandKosovo
2014–2015
Alen Bratelj
SwitzerlandCroatia
2015–2016
Pascal Amrein
Switzerland
2016–2017
Aziz Agirman
Switzerland
2017–2020
Simone Fontana
Switzerland
2020–present

Competitive record

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