Jasper van der Werff (born 9 December 1998) is a Swiss professional

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who plays as a

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for German club

SC Paderborn Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V., commonly known as simply SC Paderborn 07 () or SC Paderborn, is a German association football club based in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has enjoyed its greatest successes since the turn of the mille ...

Club career

Van der Werff made his professional debut for St. Gallen in a 2–0

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win over

FC Basel Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 13 times, and ...

on 17 February 2018. In the summer of 2018 van der Werff transferred to

RB Salzburg FC Red Bull Salzburg is an Austrian professional football club based in Wals-Siezenheim, that competes in the Austrian Bundesliga, the top flight of Austrian Football. Their home ground is the Red Bull Arena. Due to sponsorship restrictions, t ...

and he was loaned to

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. On 9 January 2020, FC Basel announced that they had loan contracted van der Werff for one and a half seasons. After three test games van der Werff played his domestic league debut for his new club in the home game at the

St. Jakob-Park St. Jakob-Park () is a Swiss sports stadium in Basel. It is the largest football venue in Switzerland and home to FC Basel. "Joggeli", as the venue is nicknamed by the locals, was originally built with a capacity of 33,433 seats. The capacity w ...

on 2 February as Basel were defeated 2–1 by

St. Gallen , neighboring_municipalities = Eggersriet, Gaiserwald, Gossau, Herisau (AR), Mörschwil, Speicher (AR), Stein (AR), Teufen (AR), Untereggen, Wittenbach , twintowns = Liberec (Czech Republic) , website ...

. He scored his first goal for the club on 21 January 2021 in the home game in the St. Jakob-Park against

Lugano Lugano (, , ; lmo, label=Ticinese dialect, Ticinese, Lugan ) is a city and municipality in Switzerland, part of the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino. It is the largest city of both Ticino and the Italian-speaking southern Switzerland. Luga ...

. It was the last goal of the game in the 89th minute and the equaliser as Basel managed a 2–2 draw. Van der Werff left the club as the contract ended. During his 18 months with the club, Van der Werff played a total of 50 games for Basel scoring the afore mentioned one goal. 34 of these games were in the

, four in the

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, five in the

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and seven were friendly games. On 19 May 2022, van der Werff signed with

on a permanent basis after playing at the club on loan in the previous season.

International career

Van der Werff was born in Switzerland to Dutch parents who had moved to

Speicher, Switzerland Speicher is a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, in Switzerland. History Speicher is first mentioned in 1309 as ''Spicher''. The name originated in the Middle Ages, during the heyday of the Abbey of Saint Gall. At that time ...

the previous year. He grew up in Speicher and represented the Switzerland U16 twice in 2014.

References

External links

UEFA Profile
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SFL Profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Werff, Jasper van der 1998 births Sportspeople from St. Gallen (city) Living people Swiss men's footballers Association football defenders Switzerland youth international footballers Swiss people of Dutch descent FC St. Gallen players FC Red Bull Salzburg players FC Liefering players FC Basel players SC Paderborn 07 players Swiss Super League players Austrian Football Bundesliga players 2. Liga (Austria) players 2. Bundesliga players Swiss expatriate footballers Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate footballers in Austria Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate footballers in Germany