Stefan Bützer

Stefan Bützer (born 17 September 1965) is a Swiss retired footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s as midfielder.

Stefan Bützer
Personal information
Date of birth (1965-09-17) 17 September 1965
Place of birth Oberdiessbach, Switzerland
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
until 1984 BSC Young Boys
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1986 BSC Young Boys 47 (7)
1986–1988 FC Basel 65 (8)
1988–1994 FC Locarno 182 (26)
1994–1996 AC Bellinzona
1996–1999 FC Locarno 88 (12)
International career
1985–1987 Switzerland U21 10 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bützer played for his youth football with BSC Young Boys and advanced to their first team in the summer of 1984. He played two season for YB and in the 1985–86 Nationalliga A season he played in 26 of the 30 league matches, scoring two goals, as they won the Swiss championship. He then moved on.

Bützer joined FC Basel's first team for their 1986–87 season under head-coach Helmut Benthaus. After playing in eight test games, Bützer played his domestic league debut for his new club in the first game of the season, on 9 August 1986, away from home as Basel were defeated 1–3 by Sion.[1] Bützer scored his first goal for his club on 21 March 1987 in the away game in the Wankdorf Stadium and it was the winning goal in the last minute of the match as Basel won 1–0 against his former club Young Boys.[2]

At the end of the following 1987–88 Nationalliga A season, under manager Urs Siegenthaler, Bützer and his team suffered relegation and he left the club. In his two-season Bützer played a total of 94 games for Basel scoring a total of 15 goals. 65 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, three in the Swiss Cup and 26 were friendly games. He scored eight goals in the domestic league, one in the Swiss Cup and the other six were scored during the test games.[3]

Following his time with Basel, Bützer played six seasons for FC Locarno. He then played two seasons for AC Bellinzona before he returned to Locarno for another three seasons before ending his active playing career.

References
  1. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Sion - FC Basel 3:1 (3:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  2. "BSC Young Boys - FC Basel 0:1 (0:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  3. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Stefan Bützer - FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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