This is Swiss tradition at its best: the Swiss Wrestling and Alpine Festival, or ESAF for short, takes place every three years at different locations and regularly attracts over 400,000 spectators, making it the largest recurring sporting event in Switzerland. At the ESAF, the country’s best wrestlers compete in traditional Swiss wrestling, accompanied by competitions in stone put and a great festival culture with yodelers, flag-wavers and alphorn players. The winner receives the prestigious title of “Schwingerkönig” (wrestling king) as well as a live prize of a full-grown bull, the so-called “Muni”.

Netstal’s support for the ESAF 2025 Glarnerland+

Holding such a large event is an organizational tour de force for which a good spatial infrastructure is indispensable. The ESAF organizing committee has been using meeting rooms at the Netstal headquarters for meetings and other presentation events since 2021.

A temporary shuttle service will be set up in the region to transport visitors between the more distant train stations, camping and parking areas and the festival grounds. The necessary bus terminal will be set up in the Netstal parking lot. In addition, our area will be used as a disposition point for the large festival parade, which traditionally takes place at the start of the ESAF.

As official wreath partner, we are looking forward to a fantastic ESAF 2025 Glarnerland+.

The + stands for the Zürichsee-Linth, March Höfe and Sarganserland regions bordering the canton of Glarus, which are also supporting ESAF 2025.