Beat Sutter (born 12 December 1962 in

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) is a

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former

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striker who played throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Sutter began his career with

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in 1981 and went on to play 114 matches for the club before he left to join

Neuchâtel Xamax , neighboring_municipalities= Auvernier, Boudry, Chabrey (VD), Colombier, Cressier, Cudrefin (VD), Delley-Portalban (FR), Enges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise, Savagnier , twintowns = Aarau (Switzerland), Besançon (France ...

in 1986. He spent the best years of his career at Xamax, playing over 200 games there. In 1994, he signed for

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, but he spent just one season there and moved on to

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in 1995. He scored twice in 29 appearances for St. Gallen and retired in 1996, aged 33.

Honours

;Neuchâtel Xamax *

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: 1986–87, 1987–88 *

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: 1987, 1988, 1990

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* 1962 births Living people Swiss men's footballers Switzerland international footballers FC Basel players Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players Yverdon-Sport FC players FC St. Gallen players Association football forwards {{Switzerland-footy-forward-stub