Factbox of Switzerland vs Czech Republic - Euro 2008 Group A

BASEL, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Co-hosts Switzerland will kick off the 2088 European Championship with a Group A match against Czech Republic here on Saturday.

Location: St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland

Time: Saturday June 7, 1800 local time

Euro 2008 capacity: 40,000

Squad

Switzerland:

Goalkeepers: 1-Diego Benaglio (VFL Wolfsburg), 18-Pascal Zuberbuehler (Neuchatel Xamax), 21-Eldin Jakupovic(Grasshoppers Zurich)

Defenders: 2-Johannes Djourou(Arsenal), 3-Ludovic Magnin(VFB Stuttgart), 4-Philippe Senderos (Arsenal), 5-Stephan Lichtsteiner(Lille), 13-Stephane Grichting (Aj Auxerre), 17-Christoph Spycher(Eintracht Frankfurt), 20-Patrick Mueller(Olympique Lyon), 23-Philipp Degen(Borussia Dortmund)

Midfielders: 6-Benjamin Huggel(Basel), 7-Ricardo Cabanas(Grasshoppers Zurich), 8-Gokhan Inler(Udinese), 10-Hakan Yakin(Young Boys), 14-Daniel Gygax(Metz), 15-Gelson Fernandes(Manchester City), 16-Tranquillo Barnetta(Bayer Leverkusen), 19-Valon Behrami(Lazio), 22-Johan Vonlanthen(Salzburg)

Forwards: 9-Alexander Frei(Borussia Dortmund), 11-Marco Streller(Basel), 12-Eren Derdiyok(Basel)

Coach: Jakob Kuhn (Switzerland)

Czech Republic:

Goalkeepers: 1-Petr Cech(Chelsea), 16-Jaromir Blazek (Nuremberg), 23-Daniel Zitka(Anderlecht)

Defenders: 2-Zdenek Grygera(Juventus), 6-Marek Jankulovski(AC Milan), 12-Zdenek Pospech(FC Copenhagen), 13-Michal Kadlec(Sparta Prague), 21-Tomas Ujfalusi(Fiorentina), 22-David Rozehnal(Lazio)

Midfielders: 3-Jan Polak(Anderlecht), 4-Tomas Galasek(Nuremberg), 5-Radoslav Kovac(Spartak Moscow), 14-David Jarolim(Hamburg), 17-Marek Matejovsky(Reading), 18-Tomas Sivok(Sparta Prague), 19-Rudolf Skacel(Hertha Berlin), 20-JaroslavPlasil(Osasuna)

Forwards: 7-Libor Sionko (FC Copenhagen), 8-Martine Fenin (Eintracht Frankfurt), 9-Jan Koller(Nuremberg), 10-Vaclav Sverkos (Banik Ostrava), 11-Stanislav Vlcek(Anderlecht), 15-Milan Baros(Portsmouth)

Coach: Karel Bruckner (Czech Republic)

Suspended: None

Injured: None

Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)

Linesmn: Alessandro Griselli (Italy), Paolo Calcagno (Italy)