Fernand Alfred Jaccard (8 October 1907 – 15 April 2008) was a
Swiss footballer
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and manager. He played as
midfielder
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. He was born in
La Chaux-de-Fonds
La Chaux-de-Fonds () is a Swiss city in the canton of Neuchâtel. It is located in the Jura mountains at an altitude of 1000 m, a few kilometers south of the French border. After Geneva, Lausanne and Fribourg, it is the fourth largest city l ...
and died in
Lutry
Lutry () is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the Lavaux-Oron, which includes the Lavaux region, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
History
Lutry is first mentioned in 908 as ''in Lustraco villam''. In 1124 it was mentioned as ...
.
Playing career
Jaccard played his youth football with
Étoile-Sporting and advanced to their first team in 1924. He stayed with Étoile-Sporting, who were playing in the
Swiss Serie A, for two seasons.
He then moved on to lower tier CS La Tour de Peilz and stayed there for nine seasons. Jaccard was called up to the
Swiss national team in the 1933–34 season and played in the
1934 FIFA World Cup
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The 1934 World Cup was the first in w ...
.
After returning from Italy he was surprised by the fact that the club had transferred him to
FC Montreux-Sports
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without him being involved or even knowing about it. Jaccard then played this one season for Montreux-Sports and at the end of the season he forced a transfer to
Basel
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.
Jaccard joined Basel's first team, with German trainer
Alwin Riemke
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Playing career
Riemke ...
, in their
1935–36 season. Jaccard played his domestic league debut for his new club in the away game on 22 December 1935 as Basel played against
Young Boys.
He scored his first goal for Basel on 29 March 1936 in the away game against
Young Fellows Zürich, where his team was beaten 2–4.
In
Basel's 1936–37 season Austrian trainer
Heinz Körner took over as team manager. Körner was the tenth professional team manager/trainer in Basel's history, and their tenth foreign trainer, but he left during the season. After that Jaccard took over as player-manager. Jaccard was the club's first professional Swiss trainer. Only four consecutive victories towards the end of the campaign lifted the team to finish in joint second-last position in the league table. Because
La Chaux-de-Fonds
La Chaux-de-Fonds () is a Swiss city in the canton of Neuchâtel. It is located in the Jura mountains at an altitude of 1000 m, a few kilometers south of the French border. After Geneva, Lausanne and Fribourg, it is the fourth largest city l ...
and Basel both had 20 points, they had to compete in a play-off against relegation. This play-off ended in a draw after extra time and so a replay was required. The replay was played in the
Stadion Neufeld in
Bern on 20 June 1937 and ended in a 1–0 victory for Basel, and so they prevented relegation.
The following season Jaccard led his team to finish in fourth position in the league table. Jaccard himself played only in 10 of the 22 games and 9 of these were in the first half of the season. Jaccard and the team finished the 1938/39 season in last position in the table and were relegated to the 1 Liga. Jaccard then left the club and joined
FC Locarno
FC Locarno is a Swiss football club based in Locarno in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino in southern Switzerland.
As of the 2019–20 season, Locarno play in the Swiss sixth level, 2. Liga.
History
The club, founded in 1906, spent most ...
. Between the years 1935 and 1939 Jaccard played a total of 79 games for Basel scoring a total of six goals. 62 of these games were in the
Swiss Serie A, six in the
Swiss Cup and 11 were friendly games. He scored four goal in the domestic league and the other two were scored during the test games.
Trainer/Manager career
After four seasons with
FC Locarno
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As of the 2019–20 season, Locarno play in the Swiss sixth level, 2. Liga.
History
The club, founded in 1906, spent most ...
Jaccard moved on and signed for
Servette FC. During his first two seasons with Servette Jaccard worked as player-manager, playing at least one game in each season. In the 1945/46 season Jaccard and his team won the Swiss championship.
He stayed with Servette until the summer of 1948.
For the 1948/49 season Jaccard was appointed manager of
Cantonal Neuchatel in the Nationalliga B, the second highest tier of Swiss football at that time. In their first season they finished the league in 5th position. A year later, 1949/50, they were division champions winning 19 of the 26 league games, suffering just two defeats. Jaccard had three top goal scorers in his team,
Traugott Oberer scored 21 goals, André Facchinetti netted 19 times and
Numa Monnard scored 10.
Cantonal suffered relegation in the
1950–51 Nationalliga A season, but Jaccard remained with the club.
One year later, however, Jaccard left and became manager of
Chiasso
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As the southernmost of Switzerland's municipalities, Chiasso is on the border with Italy, in front of Ponte Chiasso (a frazione of Co ...
. He remained their boss for three years, before moving to
Lausanne-Sport in the summer of 1955. Two years later, Jaccard retired from football.
During his time in La Tour de Peilz, Jaccard had worked in a shoe shop. During his time as Servette manager, after World War II, he opened his own shoe store, which he ran as manager even beyond his retirement age.
Titles and honours
Servette as manager
*
Swiss National Champion:
1945–46
References
Sources
* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG.
* Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage
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1907 births
2008 deaths
Swiss centenarians
Men centenarians
Swiss men's footballers
Switzerland international footballers
1934 FIFA World Cup players
Swiss football managers
FC Basel managers
FC Basel players
Servette FC managers
Neuchâtel Xamax FCS managers
FC Lausanne-Sport managers
FC Chiasso managers
FC Locarno managers
Association football midfielders
People from La Chaux-de-Fonds
Sportspeople from the canton of Neuchâtel